Tyler Zeller

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big story line. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said he has had preliminary contract talks with the agents for forwards Tyler Zeller and Jared Sullinger. Both players [...]

 Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big story line. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. As expected, Celtics big man Kelly Olynyk was named to the 12-member Canadian National team that will compete this week in Mexico City in the FIBA [...]

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big story line. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. The Celtics and Zeller have talked about a deal and there is a belief if Zeller wants to lock in security, the C’s would be open [...]

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big story line. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. The 7-foot center is among three Celtics (Jared Sullinger and Perry Jones III) from the 2012 draft class who are in line for a potential extension [...]

Chicago’s Jimmy Butler rightfully won the Most Improved Player award. He got 92 first place votes and 535 points overall to beat out Draymond Green, another worthy contender, pretty easily. Scanning through the list of vote-getters, I was struck to see a Celtic on there. Tyler Zeller. Now, Zeller had a nice year and he [...]

Led by the dynamic duo of Zeller and Olynyk (that rolls off the tongue nicely doesn’t it?), the Celtics outplayed and out-hustled the Pacers in a 100-87 victory at the Garden. The win keeps Boston a half game behind Brooklyn for the 8th seed in the East. Evan Turner churned out another tremendous performance: 13 [...]

Tyler Zeller, by all individual counts, is having a great year for the Celtics. He has been one of the team’s most efficient players, shooting 54% from the field, and while his per game averages of 9.7 points and 5.7 rebounds may not be eye-popping, his per 36 averages of 16.7 points, 9.8 rebounds, 2.2 [...]

Your browser does not support iframes. Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big story line. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. For Zeller, it was his first career NBA game-winner. And his reaction as the buzzer sounded – while in classic [...]

The Boston Celtics and Utah Jazz participated in a basketball game officially sanctioned by the National Basketball Association tonight.  For 47 minutes and 58 seconds, that was the nicest thing I can say about this contest. I watched it. I watched all of it. I did it because I had to sit down write these [...]

When Brad Stevens announced that Brandon Bass would be starting over Tyler Zeller before the Blazers game, I was surprised. Sure, the starting five of Turner, Bradley, Crowder, Sullinger and Zeller had struggled, but would replacing Zeller with Bass fix that? Does it make sense to bench a 25-year-old center who has been steadily improving [...]