The Boston Celtics’ gap year is officially underway. ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on Monday that the Celtics agreed to trade guard Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trailblazers in exchange for guard Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks. The Celtics will shed some salary with the move. Holiday signed a four-year, $134 million contract with Boston before winning the NBA finals in 2024. Holiday was a key piece of the Celtics’ championship run. He missed time early in the playoffs, but averaged 9.5 points per game when he was available. He also routinely drew difficult defensive assignments. Simons is 26 years…
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DAVE MASON/THE STAR / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images We got some momentum. Let’s keep it going. Sure, the Red Sox lost yesterday but broadly things have been pretty good recently even accounting for, ya know, The Trade. So let’s hope tonight’s 9:38 (sure) game goes well. Here are the ‘nups: Game 1 in Anaheim. pic.twitter.com/I2SUbRaf4d— Red Sox (@RedSox) June 23, 2025 start of a new series at the Big A ️: @FanDuelSN_West : @AngelsRadioKLAA | AM830 App & KWKW 1330 [Spanish]#RepTheHalo x @FBMSupply pic.twitter.com/ZnQ4XaTK6O— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) June 23, 2025 Source link
Life comes full circle for the Walpole baseball program. Ninety-one years after the artists formerly known as the Rebels won the inaugural state baseball tournament, the Timberwolves capped a wild journey by knocking off Reading 7-6 to win the Division 2 state title. Even nicer was the postgame gesture by Walpole coach Chris Costello to give the championship award to interim AD Bill Tompkins, who won more than 500 games as head coach at the school. The Bay State Conference nearly had two titles in the same year as Braintree overcame a host of injuries to get to the Div.…
With the NHL draft and free agency looming the next 10 days or so, the Bruins took care of a necessary piece of business on Monday. The club announced they signed defenseman Mason Lohrei to a two-year extension worth an annual cap hit of $3.2 million. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Lohrei was scheduled to become a restricted free agent on July 1. He will still be an RFA when the deal is up. The deal allows the player time to continue to grow his game and it also gives the Bruins a couple of years to assess what exactly they have…
The San Francisco Giants tied up some finances with their blockbuster trade for Rafael Devers last week. So much so that the Richmond Flying Squirrels are feeling it all the way in Double-A — or at least that’s what they’re joking. “We cannot give you a ball,” a sign in Richmond’s dugout read last week, per the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Colin Beazley. “We just traded for Devers and he costs a lot of $. Foul balls, yes, we can hook you up.” The Giants’ Double-A affiliate is playing this week here in Altoona. The @GoSquirrels bullpen taped up a sign to…
Monday Player Props for Today, June 23rd, 2025 (6/23/2025)! In this video, I give you my favorite MLB player props for today’s slate. Plays: Ronald Acuña Jr. O1.5 Total Bases (-115 ESPNBet) (1u) Spencer Horwitz O0.5 Total Base (-150 BetMGM) (1u) Pete Crow-Armstrong U1.5 Hits + Runs + RBIs (-120 BetMGM) (0.75u) Luis García Jr. O1.5 Hits + Runs + RBIs (-120 BetMGM) (1u) Here is the Link for Today’s Plays Down Below: https://app.outlier.bet/picks/7818e725-897e-47e7-96ad-9f31ba6aeeab?utm_source=e8ed1dce-af78-441e-911b-f08f8741df00&utm_channel=interstitial Single Bet Record Tonight’s Single Bet Record: 2-2 (-0.12u) Season Single Bet Record: 85-81 (-9.57u) Parlay Bet Record Tonight’s Parlay Bet Record: 0-0 Season Parlay Bet…
In the NBA, the offseason begins in a hurry. Just three days after the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Game 7 triumph over the Indiana Pacers, the league will gather at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the opening night of the 2025 NBA Draft. For the Celtics, the draft will be their first chance to add to a roster that could look substantially different when the 2025-26 season tips off in October. As president of basketball operations Brad Stevens and his staff wind down their draft prep, here’s what you need to know about Boston’s picks and how they might use…
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Keegan Bradley hasn’t heard roars this loud for him since his Ryder Cup debut at Medinah in 2012, especially when he walked up the 18th green Sunday at the Travelers Championship and turned a one-shot deficit into a stunning one-shot victory over Tommy Fleetwood.On the one-year anniversary of Bradley accepting the job as Ryder Cup captain, he made the strongest case yet he should be brining his clubs to Bethpage Black.With equal parts of grit and passion, the 39-year-old Bradley rallied from a three-shot deficit with four holes to play with a 9-iron to 6 feet for…
A dark cloud stood over the NBA season’s decisive contest when Tyrese Haliburton exited Game 7 of the NBA Finals early. Haliburton, who was playing through a calf strain, went down on a non-contact injury during the first quarter. The Indiana Pacers’ superstar sat out the rest of a 103-91 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, and his father, John Haliburton, confirmed that the 25-year-old point guard sustained an Achilles injury. The NBA world watched in dread as Haliburton suffered the crushing setback. Former Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas was among the many to send their condolences on social media Sunday…
The Boston Bruins will not be a true contender again until they fix their offense. There were a lot of reasons for Boston’s lackluster 2024-25 season in which it failed to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2016. The goaltending was subpar. The penalty kill was uncharacteristically bad. The team struggled defensively. But a lack of scoring, especially on the power play, is what really doomed the Bruins. They were one of the worst offensive teams in the sport. The only reliable scorers were David Pastrnak and Morgan Geekie. If you watched the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and…