2008-09 NBA Team Preview – Boston Celtics 2008 Record: 66-16 Division Finish: 1st – Atlanta 2008 Playoffs: Won the NBA Championship, 4-2, over the Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach: Doc Rivers Season: Going into his fifth Record at Boston: 168-160 Offseason Acquisitions: Forward Darius Miles Center Patrick O’Bryant Offseason Losses: Center Scott Pollard, option was [...]
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When James Naismith invented the game of basketball at the Springfield, Mass. YMCA in 1891, he was simply looking for a distraction for his rowdy young charges, who were often stuck indoors due to the harshly cold Massachusetts winters. Little did he know that his creation would one day evolve into a globalized, multi-billion-dollar sensation [...]
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