Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team. They play their home games in the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. They are a part of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and play in the Atlantic Division. The Celtics are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA, and have won 18 NBA championships, the most in NBA history.

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Conference	Eastern
Division	Atlantic
Founded	1946
History	Boston Celtics 1946–present
Arena	TD Garden
Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Team colors	Green, gold, black, brown, white
Main sponsor	General Electric
President	Rich Gotham
General manager	Brad Stevens
Head coach	Joe Mazzulla
Ownership	Boston Basketball Partners (Wyc Grousbeck, CEO/Governor)
Affiliation(s)	Maine Celtics
Championships	18 (1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2008, 2024)
Conference titles	23 (1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2008, 2010, 2022, 2024)
Division titles	34 (1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Retired numbers	23 (00, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, LOSCY)
Website	www.nba.com/celtics
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History

The Celtics were one of the first NBA teams. Since their start in 1946, they have been the most successful teams, winning 17 NBA championships, including eight championships in a row at one point. The Celtics' seventeen championships is more than any other team. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden.

From 2007 to 2013, they were lead by the big four: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Rajon Rondo, leading the team to the 2008 championship as well as making the Finals in 2010 both times against the Lakers. But in July 2012, Allen was traded to the Miami Heat (where he won his second championship in 2013) and in July 2013, Garnett and Pierce were traded to the Brooklyn Nets. Rondo remained with the Celtics until the beginning of the 2014-15 season. Today, they are led by "The Jays", Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown who lead the team to the 2022 and 2024 Finals, winning the latter.

Celtics-Lakers Rivalry

The rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers is between two most of the best franchises in NBA history. It has been called the NBA's best rivalry. The two teams have met a record twelve times in the NBA Finals, starting with their first Finals meeting in 1959. They would go on to win the league in the 1920s and the 1980s, playing each other six times in the 1960s and three times in the 1980s.

The rivalry had been less known since the retirements of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the early 1990s, but in 2008, it happened again when the Celtics and Lakers met in the Finals for the first time since 1987, with the Celtics winning the series in six games. They played once again in the 2010 NBA Finals which the Lakers won in seven games. The two teams have the highest number of championships; together, the 35 championships account for almost half of the 74 championships in NBA history.

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  12 time All-Star Larry Bird played in the Celtics from 1979 to 1992. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

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  Dennis Johnson

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  Drafted by the Celtics in 1998, Paul Pierce went on to star for the Celtics and later won the NBA Finals MVP Award when the team won the NBA championship in 2008

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  Head coach Doc Rivers led the Celtics to an NBA title in 2008.

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  Brad Stevens, former head coach of the Celtics.

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  Kyrie Irving played for Boston for two seasons making two all star appearances.

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  Al Horford made an All-Star Appearance for Boston in 2018 and won his first championship in 2024.

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