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Draymond Green and Kevin Durant both defended Golden State Warriors colleague DeMarcus Cousins after the reigning NBA champions bounced back in style on Friday. The Warriors beat the Denver Nuggets, their rivals for the top seed in the Western Conference, 122-105 at Oracle Arena on Friday, recovering from a humiliating home loss to the Boston Celtics last time out. The team's form – a 3-5 run coming into the Nuggets game – had led to criticism of Cousins, but he responded with a superb showing at both ends of the court, finishing with 13 points, six rebounds, six assists, six blocks and three steals in a 28-minute outing. Continue to Article

March 09, 2019 7:39:am EST

How Kyrie Irving brought the Celtics together at 35,000 feet originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com LOS ANGELES - Al Horford couldn't help but laugh as a reporter badgered him with questions about what really happened on the Boston Celtics' cross-country flight Sunday night that has seemingly changed the tenor of the team. "It was a normal plane ride, it was just long," pleaded Horford. And he kept chuckling when told that observers were breathlessly speculating about what could have happened. Continue to Article

March 08, 2019 8:48:pm EST

The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers do have a way of moving the storyline forward, but their Saturday matchup in Los Angeles will have a hard time topping even the most recent meeting between the teams in Boston. Point guard Rajon Rondo pulled out a 129-128 victory for the Lakers on Feb. 7 with a buzzer-beating shot on the floor where he led the Celtics to the 2008 title over the Lakers in the NBA Finals. The Saturday version of the cross-country rivalry will pit a Celtics team finally gaining traction after a rough post-All-Star break run against a Lakers team that is slipping further out of playoff contention with each game. Continue to Article

March 08, 2019 8:21:pm EST

Kyrie Irving trying to 'school these younguns' in post-practice 1-on-1 originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com LOS ANGELES - Not even head coach Brad Stevens' attempts to herd his team onto the bus could break up an extended 1-on-1 post-practice session that featured All-Star Kyrie Irving battling Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. At the conclusion of Boston's hourlong offday workout, Irving and Brown began to engage in 1-on-1 work while teammates got up shots inside the cavernous Student Activities Center on the campus of UCLA. Eventually, Tatum joined the round-robin action and a loud and boisterous session unfolded as reporters chronicled on their phones while waiting to chat with Irving. Continue to Article

March 08, 2019 7:29:pm EST

Reliving Jayson Tatum's monster dunk on LeBron from the 2018 Eastern Conference Finals originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com With the Boston Celtics getting ready to take on LeBron James' reeling Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, it's time to relive one of the best moments from last year's Celtics playoff run: Jayson Tatum's dunk over LeBron in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Celtics had gotten a huge spark from Tatum during the NBA playoffs, and with a trip to The Finals on the line, Tatum made one of the biggest plays of his young career. He went up for a dunk and threw it down despite LeBron coming over and attempting to block it. Continue to Article

March 08, 2019 6:58:pm EST