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The Celtics' 18 NBA Championships are the most of any NBA franchise. Boston's first 13 championships were won as the Walter A. Brown Trophy (original trophy retired in 1976), and five recent championships were won as the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy (introduced in 1977 as the second incarnation of the Walter A. Brown Trophy, renamed in 1984).
The Celtics compiled a record of 24–58, second-worst in the NBA, including a franchise-record 18-game losing streak. [106] At the end of the season, the Celtics, with the second-worst record in the NBA, were at least hopeful that they could secure a high draft pick and select either Greg Oden or Kevin Durant to help rebuild the franchise, but ...
The Celtics have had 13 separate seasons where they won 60 or more regular season contests, the highest number for any franchise. Between 1993–94 and 2006–07 the Celtics had their single sustained period of failure, with an overall win percent of .423 and only twice getting beyond the first playoff round.
The 1965–66 Boston Celtics season was their 20th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). On October 29, 1965, Sam Jones set a Celtics single-game scoring record with 51, against the Detroit Pistons. His record would last until Larry Bird's 53 in 1983. The Celtics won their 8th title in a row, which still stands as a record for the most ...
The Celtics’ 110.6 rating was No. 2 in the NBA this season, and they led the league in blocked shots (6.6 a contest). It is Boston’s first title since 2008, when it beat the Lakers in six games.
The Boston Celtics will finish the season with the best record in the NBA. The team clinched the top overall seed of the NBA playoffs with a 135-100 blowout win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on ...
Boston Celtics: Career highlights and awards; 8× NBA champion (1961–1966, 1968, 1969) NBA All-Defensive Second Team ; No. 16 retired by Boston Celtics; Third-team All-American – UPI ; Haggerty Award (1960) Career playing statistics; Points: 8,766 (9.6 ppg) Rebounds: 5,798 (6.3 rpg) Assists: 1,026 (1.1 apg) Stats at NBA.com Stats at ...
The Celtics did their best, firing up 13 shots from 3-point range in an attempt to break the NBA record for 3s in a game — and missing them all. In the end, all the defending champions could do ...