Paul Pierce News

It's been nearly 11 months since Jason Collins announced he was gay in a Sports Illustrated article , and the Brooklyn Nets center said it's been a whirlwind ever since.

Boston Celtics forward Gerald Wallace will miss the remainder of the season after arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and left ankle.

It's a colorful way of expressing regret, but in the case of the Celtics coach, any regret seems to apply to the good things about his team that elude him upon first glance.

Four straight. The Grizzlies came into Brooklyn on Wednesday night, and while it got closer than it should have in the fourth, Brooklyn came out with the victory .

With the NBA season coming to a close and with the playoffs not too far out of sight, a few unfortunate teams are already gearing up for the offseason.

The following is a list and slideshow of photos of the NBA cheerleaders with the hottest bodies from teams not in the playoffs in 2014.

Kevin Garnett , with Paul Pierce on the Nets bench, will miss his third straight game Wednesday night against the Grizzlies with what the team is calling "back spasms."

Here are some of the facts surrounding the Brooklyn Nets' signing of Jason Collins, the first openly gay, active athlete in major American sports history.

With the way things have been going this season, nobody expected much from the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night against the Golden State Warriors as Rajon Rondo and company suffered their seventh-straight loss.

After they pulled out a dramatic, last-second win at Indiana on Tuesday night, the Golden State Warriors could have been excused for being a bit flat Wednesday night.

Danny Ainge says he asked Rajon Rondo not to skip out on traveling with the team, but the mercurial point guard did anyway.

With the losses piling up and the eyes of fans shifting over the draft board, the Boston Celtics clearly need to make plenty of changes from their 2013-14 season.

To say that Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love has emerged into a star would be a vast understatement.

Before this season started, it had the decided feel of the 2006-2007 season when the Celtics were also rebuilding.

Boston Celtics forward Gerald Wallace is sidelined for the rest of the season after undergoing arthroscopic surgeries on his left knee and left ankle.

The Boston Celtics have 21 numbers hanging in the TD Garden rafters, a reminder of all the greats to wear a Celtics jersey throughout the franchise's storied history.

However, that is just the point, isn't it? When Paul Pierce , Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers exited the Boston Celtics family last summer, and again when Rondo first donned the "C" on that green jersey, he became more than just a professional basketball player.

The Boston Celtics are currently sitting at 20-40, which is good enough for the fourth-worst record in the NBA .

Joe Johnson spent seven seasons in Atlanta and Larry Drew was there for all of them, either as an assistant coach or the head coach.

The Clippers, once the butt of jokes, has now become a destination for top free agents.