During his time suiting up for the Celtics, Acres wore only jersey No. 42 and put up 3.0 points and as many rebounds per game.

Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum recently detailed what helped him right after he suffered a torn Achilles during last year's playoffs.

"The challenge is they're going to come with a different mentality," Justin Edwards said. "We beat them at home in the opener. We just got to try to build off of what we did last game and then add the pieces that we have and the film that we've been watching just trying to put into the game."

Today in Boston Celtics history, ex-Celtics head coach and current President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens coached his first regular-season game.

With their recent run of successful seasons, the Celtics have not had a top 10 draft pick, or even one higher than No. 14, since they took Tatum at No. 3 in 2017. On Thursday, however, they gave a powerful vote of confidence to their 2024 first-round pick, taken at No. 30 overall out of Creighton.