The Boston Celtics let the New York Knicks run away with a critical Game 4 victory in Madison Square Garden late last night, putting their own title defense in

: The Celtics announced Tuesday afternoon that Jayson Tatum underwent surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon. The reality of Jayson Tatum's devastating injury in Monday night's Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks is setting in,

With the Celtics presumably among those teams, the question then becomes which players will be shipped out or not brought back, and who is presumable safe from the budget cuts? The question comes into even sharper focus given the fact that Boston's two star forwards,

After the Knicks took a 3-1 series lead, New York has a golden opportunity to close the series out in Boston. Here's how they can do it.

Suddenly here we are, longing for those times when we thought the worst-case scenario for the Celtics meant falling behind the Knicks.

Can the return of the Hospital Celtics extend the series beyond Game 5 with the TD Garden crowd at their backs?

The Boston Celtics haven't sent any internal signals about trimming their payroll in future seasons, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst.