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Point guard Isaiah Thomas will make his first start for Cleveland on Saturday as the Cavaliers seek a bounce-back win against the Magic in Orlando. Thomas, traded to Cleveland from the Boston Celtics prior to the season, was idle until this week as he recovered from a nagging hip injury. Thomas scored 17 points in 19 minutes off the bench in a win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday and said that "for the most part" he feels fine. Continue to Article

January 05, 2018 7:43:pm EST

Isaiah Thomas deflects something else meant for Paul Pierce. When Isaiah Thomas asked the Boston Celtics not to play a video tribute to him on Wednesday, so he could be in uniform for the Cleveland Cavaliers with his family in attendance at TD Garden on Feb. 11 when his former team honors his two-plus years of All-Star service, he came under fire from fans for trying to steal Paul Pierce’s spotlight, since the C’s legend will have his number retired the same night. Thomas assured everyone that wasn’t his intention during a pregame interview at the Garden on Wednesday night, when he was resting his right hip after making his season debut the night before. Continue to Article

January 04, 2018 4:59:pm EST

BOSTON – Jayson Tatum has been named the Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month, the NBA announced on Thursday.He becomes the first Celtic to receive the award since Marcus Smart in February of 2015.MORE CELTICS:This one means a little more to Celtics Continue to Article

January 04, 2018 4:56:pm EST

Isaiah Thomas will be piggybacking off the Celtics’ tribute to Paul Pierce next month and Pierce isn’t too happy. The Celtics had intended to honor their former point guard when the Cavs came to town on Wednesday but Thomas, still being eased back into action after a hip injury, didn’t play in Boston in the second game of a back-to-back. Speaking Thursday afternoon on ESPN’s The Jump, Pierce said he didn’t necessarily agree with the overlap. Continue to Article

January 04, 2018 4:38:pm EST

ESPN’s deep dive into the trade that sent Kyrie Irving to the Boston Celtics in the summer of 2017 threw up several fascinating new nuggets of information. The piece, authored by Hall of Fame basketball writer Jackie MacMullan, paints a more sympathetic picture of Irving’s psyche in the weeks and months leading up to the trade than any previous report on the megatrade. Did the Cavaliers try to trade Irving before he asked to leave? Continue to Article

January 04, 2018 7:47:am EST