The Boston Celtics have played almost half the 2024-25 season without Kristaps Porzingis. With 80 games having been played, Porzingis has been active for 41 of them. The Latvian center missed the start of the season because he was recovering from ankle surgery.

It was everything the Garden envisioned — but in green and white.

The slog of rehabilitating his dinged-up ankle and getting back into shape while his teammates were struggling without him was no easy journey.

With the playoffs on the horizon, the Boston Celtics are all but certain to finish as the second seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. But while their Tuesday night showdown on the road against the New York Knicks did not necessarily come with many practical stakes,

Kristaps Porzingis scored 34 points and tied a career high with eight 3-pointers, including one in the third quarter with a foot on the New York Knicks' logo, as the visiting Boston Celtics won 119-117 in overtime Tuesday night.

The New York Knicks had a three-point lead with 11 seconds left in regulation against the most prolific 3-point shooting team in NBA history. Jayson Tatum wondered if a foul was coming. The Knicks wondered afterward if it should have.

Kristaps Porzingis made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 40 seconds left in overtime after Jayson Tatum's 3-pointer with 2.9 seconds remaining forced the extra period, and the Boston Celtics completed a season sweep of the New York Knicks with a 119-117 victory Tuesday night.

Madison Square Garden buzzed with anticipation, hearts warmed by nostalgia. One of the Knicks’ own had been immortalized. Fresh off his induction as a first-ballot member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame,

They say that to be the best, you have to beat the best, and that’s something the Knicks have largely failed to do against the NBA’s elite teams this year. After a heartbreaking defeat to the East’s No.