The Boston Celtics, playing without star Jayson Tatum, forced a Game 6 with a 127-102 win over the New York Knicks. Game 6 is Friday.

The Boston Celtics should have folded like a wet cardboard box. But they did not, and instead put together one of their best ...

No Tatum, no problem. The Knicks get whalloped in the second half of a close out game . . . that picture says it all.

Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum tore his right Achilles tendon in the fourth quarter of Monday's Game 4 loss to the New York ...

White, Jaylen Brown and Luke Kornet did their best to make up for Jayson Tatum's absence and stayed alive in the NBA playoffs ...

The Knicks are headed back to New York — and the Celtics are coming with them. The Knicks blew their first chance to close ...

Derrick White had 34 points, including seven 3-pointers, to lead the Boston Celtics to a 127-102 Game 5 win over the New York ...

Teams leading 3-1 in the NBA playoffs have won 95.6% of the time, with only 13 teams in 293 tries coming back to win three ...

Jalen Brunson and Jaylen Brown had an uncomfortable moment during the first quarter of Wednesday night's Game 5 between the ...

Sam Hauser is available for the Celtics. No Knicks players are on the injury report. The game tips at 7 p.m. on TNT.

Hard work pays off. Just ask Jalen Brunson. The son of an ex NBA player who now serves as his assistant coach, the barely 6ft 1in Brunson has risen from second-round pick to unquestioned leader ...