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1957 NBA championship

The Boston Celtics achieved the first of its NBA leadership of 18 titles in the 1957 season. They were the best team in the league in the regular season and went 44: 28, while no other squad reached 40. It was a breakthrough for coach Red Auerbach and the core of the players who would build the largest dynasty in the history of the league. Bob Cousy won MVP this season, Tom Heinssohn won rookie of the year and Bill Russell led the league in rebound as a rookie. The St. Louis Hawks made the final on seven games, but the Celtics prevailed in brackets 125-123 to give them the first of 18 strings.

1959 NBA championship

After the Celtics fell into the Hawks in six games in 1958, they returned to the mountain cast in 1959 and triggered eight championships in a row. The core of the 1957 championship team was not only intact, but improved. The Celtics drove through the regular season with 52-20 and achieved average the best 116.4 points per game, which was 3.4 points better than the No. 2 value team. Bill Russell won another rebound crown with 23.0 boards per game and Bob Cousy won the Assists Crown with 8.6 assists per game. The Celtics pulled the Minneapolis Lakers in the final and won in a sweep.

1960 NBA championship

The Celtics continued in 1960 and won 59 games on the way to repetition as a champions. Boston went 59-16 in the regular season and won the crown of the Eastern Division. However, the Celtics had to increase their game this year because the league around them got better. The Philadelphia Warriors had just worked out a player named Wilt Chamberlain, who not only won rookie of the year, but also the MVP of the league. The two teams met in the final of the Eastern Division, where the Celtics won in six to determine another date with the Hawks in the final. Boston prevailed again in seven games to win his second title in a row.

1961 NBA championship

The league added another future legend in 1961, with Oscar Robertson moving in by the Royals. However, the Celtics were still the class of the league and showed them again with their third title in a row. Celtics's regular seasonal performance sank (57-22), but they had a more dominant playoff run than in the previous year. Boston won both the final of the Eastern Division and the NBA final in five games. Bill Russell also conquered the second of his five MVP prices this season.

1962 NBA championship

The 1962 Celtics won 60 games, while they scored an impressive 121.1 points per game and played Lockdown defense with an NBA-best 85.1 defensive evaluation. Bill Russell won his second NBA MVP price in a row with an average of 18.9 points, 23.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. The Celtics had a hard way to the NBA final this season. The Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain brought the Celtics to seven games, but the experienced CC -'s prevailed and made it into the next round. They pulled the Lakers, who were run by Elgin Baylor and Jerry West. The Lakers brought the Celtics to the edge, but Boston won in game 7 110-107.

1963 NBA championship

In 1963 Boston brought another title and another MVP to Bill Russell's trophy case. The team went 58-22 and Russell again scored over 23 rebounds per game. In the playoffs they had a few big tests, starting with Oscar Robertson and the Cincinnati Royals in the final of the Eastern Division. Robertson was hard for the Celtics because he achieved an average of 33.4 points, 12.4 rebounds and 8.6 rebounds. However, Robertson's Star Power could not keep up Boston's depth of the talent. Tom Heinsohn, Sam Jones, Bill Russell, Bob Cousy and a young John Havlicek overlooked them and went back to the final, where they defeated the Lakers in six games.

1964 NBA championship

The Celtics won their sixth title in a row in 1964. They fought their way to a season with 59 victories to earn the top seed from the Eastern Division. Bill Russell won MVP for the first time in 1960, but he performed the best 24.7 rebounds per game on average. The Celtics were in the playoffs at the peak of their strength when they defeated the royals and Warriors in five games.

1965 NBA championship

Boston's 62 victories of the regular season in the 1965 season were their high watermark from this time and stood as a record of the team until the 1980s. Russell won another MVP this season with an average of 14.1 points and 24.1 rebounds per game. However, the playoffs brought another big test for this team because every opponent tried to drop the reigning six -time champions. Wilt Chamberlain and the 76er pushed the Celtics on seven games, but Boston prevailed in game 7 with a one-point victory. However, this proved to be the greatest challenge in Boston. In five games, they took care of the Lakers to win their seventh championship in a row.

1966 NBA championship

In 1966 the first year in this dynasty was that the Celtics did not win the Eastern Division. This award belonged to the 76s, who won 55 games in the regular season. The Celtics therefore had to go to a championship for a long time. They took off the Royals in game 5 of a best-of-five set in the eastern SEMIS to climb to the final of the Eastern Division, where they would work again against the 76. Boston left the Sixers and ended the series in five games to build another final showdown against the Lakers. This was an epic finale that went to seven games. The Celtics dropped the opener and then rattled three victories in a row to push the Lakers to the edge. LA managed victories in game 5 and 6 to force the all -important game 7. The Celtics won 95-93, which largely won on Bill Russell for 25 points and 32 rebounds to achieve great achievements from West and Baylor on the other. With the final victory, the Celtics had done the impossible and won an eighth championship in a row.

1968 NBA championship

The player/head coach Bill Russell won a total of 11 championships in his 13-year career with Boston. The first of his two as a player and coach came in 1968 when the Celtics defeated the rival Lakers with 4: 2. In the course of 19 playoff games this year, 'Bill the Hill' scored an average of 14.4 points and 22.8 rebounds, while a 27-year-old John Havlicek listed all players in points (493) and assists (142) claimed the tenth championship in the history of Boston in Boston.

1969 NBA championship

Russell won two consecutive titles with the Celtics as a player/trainer after lying the Lakers in the 1969 final, this time in seven games. Los Angeles won the first two games and had a 3-2 series in the lead, but Boston took the next two with him to lock up an 11th championship. Havlicek led the league in the playoff minutes with 47.2 per game on the way to an average of 25.4 points, 9.9 rebounds and 5.6 templates, but it was even better in the final. In all seven games, 'captain John' played 28.3 points, 11.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists.

1974 NBA championship

At that time, a five-year drought without an NBA title felt like an eternity in Annerek. Coach Tom Heinsohn resigned after falling 68:14 in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference from 1973 after an absurd record in the regular season. John Havlicek, Dave Cowens and Jo White led a 4: 3 victory against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Milwaukee Bucks in the final, with Cowens exploding in 102: 87 for 28 points and 14 boards. Havlicek received his first and only final MVP with an average of 27.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.3 steals in 45.1 minutes per game.

1976 NBA championship

Eleinsohn and the Celtics would take a year off before they achieved another championship banner. Boston defeated Alvan Adams and the Phoenix Suns in six games to complete their 13th NBA title. Havlicek took a step back in his season at the age of 35 (13.2 ppg in playoffs), but Jo Jo White and Dave Cowens were ready to take the whole heavy lifting. White scored 21.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.5 steals in 46.5 minutes in six final appearances and received the MVP award of the series, while Cowens was unstoppable with 20.5 points and 16.3 rebounds in 42.3 minutes.

1981 NBA championship

Bill Fitch led the Celtics in the 1980/81 season to his first and only title in 25 years as a trainer. Boston wins the Houston Rockets in the first four games in the series before Cedric Maxwell and Larry Bird took over 5 and 6 to bring the championship home. In game 5, the finale MVP Maxwell reset 28 points in a 109-80 victory at a 10-against-11 shoot. Bird played 43 minutes in game 6 and ended with 27 points, 13 rebounds and five templates to secure the victory 102-91 and the 14th ring of the Celtics.

1984 NBA championship

Larry Bird had his best point in Boston's NBA championship in 1984. In 23 games, 'Larry Legend' scored an average of 27.5 points, 11.0 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.2 blocks in 41.8 minutes. During the playoffs, he shot a career of 52.4% from the field and received his first finale MVP after publishing 27.4 points, 14.0 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.1 blocks in seven games. The Celtics added another edition to their classic rivalry and raised the Larry O'Brien-Trophy again thanks to a 111-102 victory in game 7.

1986 NBA championship

Five years after Bird and the Celtics cooled down the Rockets in the final in 1981, Boston was back to deliver the 16th title of the franchise when they defeated Houston with 4: 2. A 23-year-old named Hakeem Olajuwon led the league in the playoff value (537) and Total rebounding (236). Johnson, Danny Aing, Robert Parish and Bill Walton. Larry Legend got his second finale MVP by set up 25.9 points, 9.3 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 2.1 steals in six games. He led all players in the post-season with 3.1 three-point attempts, while he drained 41.1% behind the ARC.

2008 NBA championship

Doc Rivers and the superstar trio by Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray all defeated Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in six games to claim Boston's first title in over 20 years at that time. In the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Celtics survived the Hawks and Cavaliers in seven games and then took the Detroit Pistons in the final of the Eastern Conference 4: 2. Garnett was the backbone of their Beeal best defense (98.9) as a defensive player of the year in the years 2007/08 and was the leading goal scorer for the C with 20.4 points, 10.5 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.1 blocks in the post -season.

2024 NBA championship

The 2023-24 Celtics went 64-18 in the regular season before making a 16: 3 record in the playoffs in the 18th NBA championship of the franchise championship of the franchise championship. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown led Boston to the final, where they eliminated the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Of the four series they played last year in the off-season, three ended with 4: 1 victories and won the Indiana Pacers 4-0 in the final of the Eastern Conference. Joe Mazzulla's top offensive (123.2) was based on a distance and three-point shooting, and her third-party defense (111.6) was just as threatening.