After their title defense stalled out in the second round, big changes could be coming for the Celtics this offseason.

Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson congratulated the New York Knicks for beating the Boston Celtics and advancing.

The New York Knicks flattened the Celtics, 119-81, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals and sent the Celtics home for the summer. It will be a pivotal summer for Boston, as it may have to jettison at least one of its key players to gain at least a bit of salary-cap flexibility.

After their elimination from the playoffs in the second round, it was reported that Boston Celtics Forward Jaylen Brown was playing through a partially torn meniscus.

The final four is set in the 2025 NBA playoff bracket. The Oklahoma City Thunder eliminated the Denver Nuggets on Sunday in Game 7 of their second-round matchup to advance to the Western Conference finals.

There was a faint hope that the Boston Celtics, even without All-Star forward Jayson Tatum, could defeat the New York Knicks in Game 6 on Friday at Madison Square Garden and send the Eastern Conference semifinals back home for a Game 7.

All that walking has Paul Pierce in hater mode. The former Celtics legend, who had to embark on an eight-mile, 20-hour walking trip to the FS1 studios in Los Angeles after the Knicks shockingly won Game 2 in Boston,

After a Friday night beatdown loss against the Knicks, the Celtics became the latest defending NBA champions to lose in the second round of the playoffs or prior.