On this day in Boston Celtics history, former head coach and team president Rick Pitino was hired as head coach and general manager of the team in 1997. He had previously coached at the NBA level as a ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, Rick Pitino was appointed as the head coach and general manager of the storied ball club.

Bill Russell celebrates his second season doubling as a player-coach with an NBA championship, as the Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers, four games to two, with a 124-109 victory in Game 6.

PHOENIX (AP) — Dick Van Arsdale, a three-time All-Star who became the first Phoenix Suns player after being selected by the franchise in the 1968 expansion draft, has died. He was 81. The Suns ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The NBA integrated in 1950, when Earl Lloyd, a ninth-round pick of the Washington Capitols, took the court. A look at the people born in the St. Louis area to be inducted into the ...