Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n“We play tonight\u2019s game with a heavy heart after yesterday\u2019s decision in Kenosha, and knowing that protesters in our nation\u2019s capital are treated differently by political leaders depending on what side of certain issues they are on,” it began.<\/p>\n
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“The drastic difference between the way protesters this past spring and summer were treated and the encouragement given to today\u2019s protesters who acted illegally just shows how much more work we have to do. We have decided to play tonight\u2019s game to try to bring joy into people\u2019s lives.” The Celtics beat the Heat 107-105.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Finally, it is also the birthday of former Celtic guard Cecil Orgus Hankins, born this day in 1922 in Covin, Alabama. A product of Oklahoma State University, Hankins joined the now-defunct St. Louis Bombers in the Basketball Association of America’s (BAA — a precursor league to the NBA) inaugural season of 1946-47, even before there was a draft to be selected in.<\/p>\n
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He would play a single season with that franchise before joining Boston in its second season of existence — his last in the BAA before retiring — putting up 2.8 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 6, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET Today in Boston Celtics history, the Celtics elected to trade Courtney Lee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,123,125,124,35651,35652,8913,55078,6722,16146,9134,342,9133,55080,55079,49,9811,300,47406,34],"class_list":["post-107435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-accessfree","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sstssportsnbaceltics","tag-sstsnceltics","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbrad-stevens","tag-taghistory","tag-tagmemphis-grizzlies","tag-tagmiami-heat","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","tag-tagoklahoma-state-university","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagwestern-kentucky-university","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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