Author: Soccerhuz
Veteran Al Horford turned back the clock to help the NBA champion Boston Celtics notch a ninth straight victory and nab a franchise first with a 117-103 win over the Grizzlies in Memphis on Monday. Horford, 38, led the Celtics’ scoring with 26 points off the bench. Jayson Tatum added 25 points and 14 rebounds, and the Celtics defense stymied the Grizzlies in the second half to complete a perfect 6-0 road trip — the longest unbeaten road swing in the club’s history. Boston, second in the Eastern Conference behind the Cleveland Cavaliers, won all six games by double digits.…
The 56-19 Boston Celtics, winners of nine straight games, could be missing several critical components in a clash of Eastern Conference playoff hopefuls on Wednesday. Ahead of a matchup with the rising Miami Heat, winners of four straight, Boston could be without as many as four of their top six players, as Noa Dalzell of CLNS details. Four-time All-Star Celtics small forward Jaylen Brown is considered questionable to play through a right knee posterior impingement. The 6-foot-6 University of California at Berkeley product, 28, sat out Boston’s 117-103 victory against the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday with the ailment. Brown has…
Dorian Finney-Smith and Gabe Vincent combined for 20 points each as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated a feisty Houston Rockets side 104-98 at the Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday (IST). On a night where the Lakers’ top stars in Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Austin Reaves failed to display efficiency from the court, Finney-Smith and Vincent combined for 12 three-pointers and helped down the Rockets. The Lakers starting five were only able to sink four out of 20 attempted shots from behind the three-point line. With the win, the Lakers improved to a 46-29 record this season and managed to move…
The Memphis Grizzlies stunned the basketball world last week by firing longtime coach Taylor Jenkins with just nine games to play. While it will go down as one of the most shocking firings in NBA history due to the unprecedented timing for a playoff-bound team, the Grizzlies appeared headed for a split one way or another. According to a new ESPN report, if Jenkins wasn’t fired, Memphis might have been preparing to part ways with star guard Ja Morant. As ESPN’s Tim MacMahon detailed Monday, Morant wasn’t a fan of the new offense that Jenkins and the Grizzlies’ new-look coaching…
According to a report from La Gazzetta dello Sport, Roberto De Zerbi has emerged as the favourite to take over from Sérgio Conceição at AC Milan. The Italian outlet writes that Conceição looks unlikely to remain as head coach past the end of this season, even if he is able to bring Milan silverware in the Coppa Italia. After two foreign coaches. want to return to an Italian manager. De Zerbi’s agent is reported to have met with Fabio Paratici in Milan, with the former Tottenham Hotspur executive likely to become Milan’s new sporting director at the end of the…
Coach Conceição’s AC Milan are ready to face Simone Inzaghi’s Inter in the 2024/25 Coppa Italia semi-finals, with tonight’s first-leg clash scheduled for 21:00 CEST at San Siro. Coach Conceição’s side are ready to face Inzaghi’s one for a vital match, with both teams looking to progress to the final. Today, it’s all about the Coppa Italia, and here’s our Match Preview to introduce the clash. LATEST FROM MILANELLO The Rossoneri have fared well against Inter this season – two wins and a draw – but they’re also coming into this derby clash on the back of a league defeat…
Manchester City will allow three big names to leave this summer, including Bernardo Silva, to help them splash out £50million on AC Milan star Tijjani Reijnders, it has been claimed. Pep Guardiola knows that his ageing squad needs rebuilding, and that process began during the January transfer window. Kyle Walker headed to Milan on a loan-to-buy deal, while four new players hungry for success arrived at the Etihad. They were Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis. So far, versatile forward Marmoush has had the biggest impact on Man City. The club will be involved in a host…
Fabrizio Romano has made it clear that AC Milan have no plans to keep Joao Felix beyond the end of the current season. Felix arrived on a dry loan deal from Chelsea and after impressing on his debut against Roma – even scoring a goal with a lovely chip – it has been a tale of steady decline for the forward. When he signed from the Blues there were numerous reports outlining Milan’s intention to try and explore a permanent deal, and yet now it feels certain that his days in red and black are numbered. Fabrizio Romano has given…
The first meeting came in the first half of the league season, with the Rossoneri—still led by Fonseca—securing a 2-1 victory thanks to a late goal from Gabbia. Another Milan triumph followed in the Supercoppa Italiana final: Inter had taken a 2-0 lead, but Milan, now under Conceição in just his second game after Fonseca’s dismissal, mounted a comeback to win 3-2. The most recent derby, in the return league fixture, ended in a 1-1 draw. Inzaghi’s team avoided a third consecutive defeat thanks to De Vrij’s stoppage-time equalizer. Tonight at 21:00 at San Siro, the fourth showdown of the…
Chelsea are likely to have a busy 2025 summer transfer window after opting against making any prominent signings in the January transfer window. However, they appear to have found a new concerning update on the future of on-loan winger Joao Felix. The 25-year-old was sent on loan to Serie A side AC Milan for the remainder of the 2024/25 season in the winter window, but it hasn’t really been smooth sailing for him ever since. It is being reported by Fabrizio Romano that the Italian club has already decided that they will not be working with Felix beyond the end…