On this day, the Boston Celtics won their 14th championship, beating the Houston Rockets in Game 6 of the 1981 NBA Finals.
On this day in Boston Celtics history, the 62-20 Boston Celtics won their 14th NBA Championship with a 102-91 Game 6 triumph over the Houston Rockets in 1981 on their home floor despite going five minutes late in the game without a basket.
Forward Larry Bird led the Celtics with 27 points, 13 rebounds, and 5 assists, and forward Cedric Maxwell chipped in 19 points, 5 boards, and 6 assists. center Robert Parish added 18 points and 6 rebounds. Shooting guard Robert Reed scored 27 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists for Houston, and legendary big man Moses Malone added 23 points and 16 boards.
Maxwell was awarded Finals MVP for his performance against the Rockets, who, at 42-40, were the last team in league history to make the NBA Finals with a losing record.
Not everyone who has been watching the season unfold believes that the Celtics are riding their players too hard this season despite expected help on the wing having yet to materialize.
Much of the conventional wisdom surrounding how the Boston Celtics have been using their rotations with regards to their star players, particularly forward Jayson Tatum. A season after the Celtics fizzled in the 2022 NBA Finals with no legs under their best players, the plan — or so we thought — was to find ways to get those players ore rest in the 2022-23 regular season.
But not everyone who has been watching the season unfold believes that the Celtics are riding their players too hard this season despite that expected help on the wing having yet to materialize.
We can count among them champion Celtics alum and current broadcaster Eddie House, who recently shared why he thinks finishing the season as a top seed is the greater priority overall in a guest appearance on CLNS Media’s “Celtics Beat” podcast.
Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear House’s logic in full courtesy of the folks over at the CLNS Media YouTube channel.
The Celtics have a potentially massive distraction on their hands that could linger for the entire season.
Caught up in the mess of a complicated scandal that will see Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka suspended for the 2022-23 NBA season, the team’s players will have to see their 2022 media day proceedings focused on their coach’s unfortunate misdeeds dominating the news cycle right now.
Instead of talking solely about how they plan to get past the roadblocks to a title they ran into in the NBA Finals, or what they have added to their games in the meantime, the Celtics have a potentially massive distraction on their hands that could linger for the entire season.
Former Boston sharpshooter and current NBC Sports Boston Celtics broadcaster Eddie House believes his former team’s players have all the motivation they need, however, to fuel their next banner pursuit.
Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what the 2008 champ has to say about today’s team and what the players need to do.
Alongside fellow 2008 NBA champ Kendrick Perkins, House will be a more permanent feature in 2022-23.
Former Boston Celtics champion and current NBA broadcaster Eddie House is officially joining the NBC Boston Sports’ pre- and postgame show cast for the 2022-23 season. The news came in a team press release on Wednesday that outlined the coverage plan for the coming campaign. It will see the 2008 title winner reunite with fellow Banner 17 alumnus Kendrick Perkins.
The duo, instrumental in the Celtics’ last title run, may well end up documenting the team’s next championship from the studio while Hall of Fame play-by-play voice Mike Gorman and fellow former champion Celtic and color man Brian Scalabrine provide broadcasting coverage at the games.
Per the Celtics’ release, 98.5 The Sports Hub, The Celtics Radio Network, and 105.7 WROR’s Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell will again handle radio broadcast duties live for all 82 games of the coming regular season.
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In the Boston Celtics’ late-game push to beat the Milwaukee Bucks on their home floor of Fiserv Forum on Monday night, Milwaukee star Giannis Antetokounmpo and Boston point guard Marcus Smart got tangled up on a play and crumpled to the ground together in a heap.
In the ensuing attempt to get up, Smart tried to be sportsmanlike to the Greek Freak despite the chippiness of the game and offered Antetokounmpo a hand up. Giannis took it initially, but when they failed to leverage one of the pair upright with limbs still tangled everywhere, the Bucks star kicked Smart in the face, causing the Flower Mound native to waive off Giannis in frustration and leave him to his own devices.
NBC Sports Boston broadcasters Brian Scalabrine and Eddie House — both former Celtics themselves — took a moment on the air to talk over that unusual exchange, sharing their thoughts on what might be going on in the mind of the two opponents.
Check out the clip embedded above to hear their thoughts.
The 2008 Celtics champ turned broadcaster likes what he sees from his former franchise.
2008 NBA champion and Boston Celtics alumnus Eddie House knows a contender when he sees one — particularly when the uniform they are wearing is green and white. The former Celtics shooting guard turned broadcaster has been impressed by Boston’s play against the Brooklyn Nets in their first-round playoff series and thinks that the Celtics have a solid shot at a sweep of their Atlantic Division rivals.
The Banner 18-hanging broadcaster recently teamed up with fellow NBC Sports analyst Chris Forsberg to come on the “Celtics Talk” podcast to talk all things Celtics – Nets on their most recent episode and the 109 – 103 Game 3 win has House ready to break out the broom.
Check out the clip embedded below to hear what the duo has to say about the possibility of a sweep and lots more postseason talk.
They can’t seem to find a rhythm, but need to do something to stay on the floor – what is the solution?
The Boston Celtics desperately need the younger shooters on the team to find a way to help the team whether they are called on to fill a big role or simply provide a little offensive punch off the bench.
And who better to size up what the Celtics ought to do to help that happen than one of the greatest microwave scorers in the modern history of the team, Eddie House? The former Boston marksman carved out a career in such a role with the Celtics, and he recently sat down with NBC Sports Boston’s Brian Scalabrine and Adina Smith to offer his insight on how the Celtics’ youth can improve their game to fit the team’s needs.
He also talks about the effects of losing Jayson Tatum to the NBA’s health and safety protocol and the team’s season so far, so check out the clip embedded below to hear House’s views on his former team.
On this day, the Boston Celtics signed guard Eddie House, forward Frank Brickowski and center Pervis Ellison to the team.
On this day in 2007, former Boston Celtics reserve guard Eddie House signed a multi-year deal with the team.
The Berkeley, California native had previously played for the Miami Heat (he was drafted by them out of Arizona State with the 37th pick of the 2000 NBA Draft), Los Angeles Clippers, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, the Sacramento Kings, Phoenix Suns and (then) New Jersey Nets before joining Boston in true journeyman fashion.
House would become a key part of the Celtics 2008 title team’s bench offense, providing microwave scoring off the bench that would prove critical to winning Banner 17.
He would play three seasons with Boston, averaging 7.8 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game over that stretch.
