"Little guy had everyone hyped up after the game!" Kory Gladysz reports after the Celtics game-7 win against Milwaukee.
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The Guardian reports Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca is looking at buying the Chelsea soccer team owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has sanctions and all. Pagliuca would, of course, join the Sox team that owns Liverpool and John Berylson, who doesn't own any local sportsball franchises but who does own the Millwall soccer team in the UK.
The Athletic reports that Enes Kanter will change his name to Enes Kanter Freedom when he becomes a US citizen on Monday. Kanter has long been an active human-rights proponent, which has made him persona non grata in the dictatorship his native Turkey has become.
Jabari Bird today admitted he repeatedly attacked his girlfriend in his Brighton apartment over a four-hour period one night in 2018, after which a judge continued his case without a finding for two years, which means the criminal charges will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble during that period. Read more.
Ronald Glen "Big Baby" Davis, who played on the last Celtics championship team, in 2008, was among 18 former NBA players indicted on charges they defrauded the league's health benefits plan, which covers both current players and retirees like him. Read more.
WCVB reports. The guy faces a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, which is a felony. A second man was also arrested on charges of attacking a cop.
WCVB reports the death of K.C. Jones, the Hall of Fame Celtics player and coach. He was 88.
I propose a new City Jersey for Boston.
If you know, you know. pic.twitter.com/okBqqT44US— Celtics Junkies (@Celtics_Junkies) November 20, 2019
NECN reports on an incident outside the the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge and Enes Kanter, who is Turkish and who has been critical of his country's strongman president.
Emerson Today reports most of the Portland Trail Blazers, in town to face the Celtics tonight, got trapped in an elevator at Emerson for 30 minutes yesterday, on their way to practice at the school's Max Mutchnick Campus Center
ShmandZ reports:
Garden chanting “JBJ!! JBJ!!!” just now as everyone slowly learned about the grand slam and this is the most Boston thing ever LOVE IT
A Brighton Municipal Court judge today set bail at $50,000 for Jabari Bird, 24, at his arraignment on charges of strangulation, kidnapping, and assault and battery, for a four-hour incident on Sept. 7 in Brighton, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
McClatchy reports US Rep. Devin Nunes of California used political donations to buy some $15,000 worth of Celtics tickets last year.
Nunes, R-Calif., has reportedly been a Celtics fan since high school, though he grew up in Tulare, California. He used the money from his political action committee last year on three occasions to buy tickets.
H/t Lily Goldman.
Fantastic year. No one thought we would get this far without Kyrie and Hayward. #CUSRise #celtics
— Darryl Houston (@DarrylHouston) May 28, 2018
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