BOSTON — The Celtics and New York Knicks took the court docket for the opening sport of the NBA season Tuesday night time, a conflict that Jalen Brunson stated Tuesday morning was a good barometer — regardless of being the primary sport — for the place the new-look Knicks stand in opposition to the defending champions.

However as an alternative of a tense, dramatic affair, the one drama on this night time at TD Backyard, the place the Celtics raised their record-setting 18th NBA championship banner to the rafters, was watching Boston spend the ultimate 8:54 of the 132-109 win over New York attempting — and, in the end, failing — to interrupt the NBA report for 3-pointers made in a sport.

After Al Horford had Boston’s third straight make to begin the fourth quarter with 8:54 remaining — pushing Boston right into a tie with the Milwaukee Bucks for the NBA report with 29 makes in a sport — the Celtics missed 13 consecutive makes an attempt, together with three air balls and several other different ugly misses, in what turned out to be the one factor that did not go Boston’s manner.

“It was nearly like we received jinxed or one thing,” Celtics ahead Jaylen Brown stated. “It was like once we have been simply taking part in, having enjoyable, taking part in our fashion of basketball, the whole lot was getting into. After which as soon as the group received into it and we began looking them, we could not even hit the broad aspect of the barn. The whole lot was off. We received a bunch of nice seems, and it was like a lid on the basket.

“In order that simply reveals, like, we’re not a group that is looking 3s. We play the sport and we do what we’re purported to do, however I believe in the direction of the tip it was robust as a result of we wasn’t taking part in the way in which we had usually performed. However we nonetheless had a bunch of nice seems.”

Earlier than Boston’s chilly streak to finish the sport, the Celtics had gone 29-for-48 from behind the arc — a part of a teamwide offensive show that noticed the Celtics end with 33 assists in comparison with simply three turnovers. Jayson Tatum, recent off tweaking his jumper this summer time, completed with 37 factors on 14-for-18 taking pictures, together with 8-for-11 from 3-point vary.

However for as scorching because the Celtics have been for a lot of the sport, that is how chilly they turned down the stretch. Regardless of the group chanting “Yet another 3” on a number of events, it wasn’t sufficient for Boston to recover from the road because the Celtics spoiled the Knicks debuts of big-name offseason acquisitions Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Cities.

“I requested round, like, 26 what [the record] was,” Celtics guard Derrick White stated, “after which somebody informed me. After which once we have been tied, I used to be like, ‘Oh, we’re one away from the report.’

“I should not have stated something. It is form of like a no-hitter, huh. I blame myself for that one.”

The Knicks blamed themselves — and, particularly, their protection — for permitting the sport to get away from them as shortly and completely because it did. From coach Tom Thibodeau to Cities to Brunson, each a part of New York’s franchise made it clear that it’ll take a much better effort at that finish of the court docket to compete with Boston for Jap Convention supremacy.

“We will speak about offense all y’all need,” stated Cities, who had 12 factors and seven rebounds in 23 minutes. “I will depart that to y’all when y’all go residence and write the tales. However I do know for us we gotta play protection.”

Boston additionally appeared to repeatedly catch New York off-guard with fast seems in transition — one other factor everybody pointed to as an issue on this sport. And, in keeping with Second Spectrum, the Celtics made 15 3-pointers on halfcourt units that got here throughout the first 12 seconds, tied for his or her most in a sport since participant monitoring started in 2013-14.

“We have been in rotation,” stated Brunson, who led the Knicks with 22 factors in 24 minutes. “It began with Jayson flattening quite a lot of pictures off the pick-and-roll after which us adjusting and him making the proper play, getting us in rotation.

“So gotta give the credit score to them. They seem to be a good group. What they do is exclusive, and we have been simply on our heels all night time.”

What everybody on either side agreed on, nonetheless, was that this was only one sport of 82 for each groups. And whereas Boston fulfilled its said mandate to attempt to strategy this season as if it was a group difficult for the title, moderately than one coming off claiming its 18th NBA championship, New York now sees simply how a lot work it has to do to be able to attain the degrees it hopes to this season.

“It is Recreation 1,” Thibodeau stated. “We did not have that a lot time but. However it’s early, and also you gotta be taught from it. So our factor is get higher from this and watch movie and I believe it was an incredible check for a group like this, who’re already up there.

“It is a good check, and we’ll be taught from that and attempt to construct on what we received to do with our habits and the whole lot.”

DURHAM, N.C. – With opening evening in the NBA set for Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Duke males’s basketball program has 24 members of The Brotherhood on opening-day rosters. The record was compiled from the NBA’s official opening-day rosters (together with two-way and inactive lists) and contains any Blue Satan that performed and completed their school basketball careers at Duke.

The Blue Devils have gamers at a complete of 18 completely different franchises, together with a trio in Phoenix (Grayson Allen, Tyus Jones and Mason Plumlee) and 4 duos in Charlotte (Seth Curry and Mark Williams), Dallas (Kyrie Irving and Dereck Vigorous II), New Orleans (Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson) and Orlando (Paolo Banchero and Wendell Carter Jr.).

Jayson Tatum, a ahead/guard for the Boston Celtics, is coming off his first NBA championship throughout the 2023-24 season. Tatum, a five-time All-Star and four-time All-NBA choice, helped lead the Celtics to a league-leading 64 regular-season wins and defeated the Dallas Mavericks in 5 video games within the NBA Finals. Brothers Tre and Tyus Jones, enjoying for San Antonio and Phoenix, respectively, are scheduled to play one another thrice throughout the common season, together with as soon as throughout group play of the NBA Cup.

Duke’s two draftees from the 2023-24 squad, Kyle Filipowski and Jared McCain, are set to make their NBA debuts this season. McCain, Duke’s 56th all-time first-round choose, averaged 22.8 minutes throughout the preseason whereas scoring 12.8 factors and grabbing 4.6 rebounds per recreation, whereas capturing 40 % from the sector total and 37.9 % from past the arc. Filipowski averaged 13.2 minutes throughout the preseason whereas gathering 4.8 factors, 4.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per recreation.

Duke’s two dozen NBA gamers additionally be part of an extended record of former gamers, coaches, managers and Duke graduates that serve on NBA teaching staffs or in entrance workplace roles for 26 of league’s 30 groups, and for the league workplace. That features former Corridor of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who joined the NBA this summer season as a particular advisor, 1984 Duke graduate Adam Silver (NBA Commissioner), Grant Hill (half proprietor of the Atlanta Hawks), Elton Model (Normal Supervisor of the Philadelphia 76ers), Trajan Landon (President of Basketball Operations of the Detroit Pistons), Quin Snyder (Head Coach of the Atlanta Hawks), Mike Dunleavy (Normal Supervisor of the Golden State Warriors) and JJ Redick (Head Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers).

Blue Devils within the NBA
Grayson Allen – Phoenix
Marvin Bagley III – Washington
Paolo Banchero – Orlando
RJ Barrett – Toronto
Wendell Carter Jr. – Orlando
Seth Curry – Charlotte
Kyle Filipowski – Utah
Brandon Ingram – New Orleans
Kyrie Irving – Dallas
Jalen Johnson – Atlanta
Tre Jones – San Antonio
Tyus Jones – Phoenix
Luke Kennard – Memphis
Dereck Vigorous II – Dallas
Jared McCain – Philadelphia
Wendell Moore Jr. – Detroit
Mason Plumlee – Phoenix
Cam Reddish – LA Lakers
D.J. Steward – Chicago
Jayson Tatum – Boston
Gary Trent Jr. – Milwaukee
Dariq Whitehead – Brooklyn
Mark Williams – Charlotte
Zion Williamson – New Orleans

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NEW YORK (AP) — When Tears for Fears hit the stage at Firstbank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee, on July 11, 2023, there have been no tears however some fears.

“We walked on stage and I felt like a deer caught within the headlines,” says singer and guitarist Roland Orzabal, half of the duo. Curt Smith, his musical accomplice, agreed: “We placed on a courageous face.”

The explanation the duo have been uneasy was as a result of cameras have been about to seize, for the primary time, a Tears for Fears live performance destined for the massive display. “Tears For Fears Dwell (A Tipping Level Movie)” premieres in over 1,100 film theaters worldwide on Oct. 24 and Oct. 26.

“We usually look way more relaxed and are having fun with ourselves way more. We weren’t as a lot that evening as a result of we have been very acutely aware of being filmed and being recorded,” says Smith. “However, consequently, it was in all probability the most effective performances we ever did.”

The irony is that any nerves aren’t evident, with Smith at one level in the course of the present quipping, “This younger man to my proper, his identify is Roland. I might say his surname however I can’t pronounce it.”

Outdated and new and reside

The live performance is a mixture of outdated and new songs, with loads of room given to the duo’s 2022 album “The Tipping Level.” Followers will even hear the classics: “Everyone Needs To Rule the World,” Shout” and “Head Over Heels.”

“We listened to a variety of the tapes and a variety of the performances. And there was one thing about that evening — as a result of we have been so rattling nervous, we truly performed higher,” says Smith.

The live performance movie is just the newest output from the duo who have been comparatively quiet for 17 years earlier than releasing “The Tipping Level,” which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, the identical spot their “The Seeds of Love” reached in 1989.

Tears for Fears have turned the live performance into an album — “Songs For a Nervous Planet,” out Oct. 25 — and added 4 beforehand unreleased songs with it, like an EP on prime of the reside set. In addition they plan a three-night live performance on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Oct. 30, Nov. 1 and Nov. 2.

Orzabal jokes he and Smith are discovering a brand new gear after “a protracted gestation interval akin to that of an elephant.” They switched managers — the outdated one insisted Tears for Fears modernize and hunt down hits — and “it’s nearly just like the brakes have been taken off.”

4 new songs

The brand new songs embrace Orzabal’s love music to his new spouse “The Woman That I Name Dwelling” and Smith’s ethereal “Astronaut,” which was left off “The Tipping Level.”

That album was closely knowledgeable by grief, loss and psychological anguish. The title monitor is about dementia, “Break the Man” is about patriarchy, “My Demons” is an examination of violent extremism and “Rivers of Mercy” is a prayer about social unrest.

The 4 new choices have a special really feel, extra constructive. “I feel that it does offer you just a little perception into the place we are actually, whereas ‘The Tipping Level’ type of was pushed rather a lot by ache,” says Smith. “These new 4 tracks will not be and I feel they’ve a separate life.”

Orzabal and Smith determined to make a reside album and live performance as soon as they fitted songs from “The Tipping Level” into their live performance set. One factor they seen was the title monitor had rather a lot in rhythmic widespread with “Everyone Needs to Rule the World.”

“Placing the brand new songs in opposition to the outdated songs was nice as a result of they not solely sounded extraordinarily coherent, they have been pretty much as good as they have been quality-wise,” says Orzabal.

Each tasks function guitarist Charlton Pettus, drummer Jamie Wollam keyboardist Doug Petty and singer Lauren Evans. Tears for Fears received concert-ready by “flying below the radar,” as Orzabal calls it — enjoying wineries, casinos and festivals.

“We had a reasonably good set and a working order,” he provides. “All we then needed to do earlier than the final tour was slotting ‘The Tipping Level’ songs.”

The duo made their mark among the many first wave of electronica that dominated the early Nineteen Eighties airwaves, with hits together with “Mad World,” “Pale Shelter” and “Shout.”

Subsequent yr marks the fortieth anniversary of their 1985 No. 1 album “Songs From the Large Chair,” with its mesmerizing hit music “Everyone Needs to Rule the World.”

“I’m form of drawn to the simplicity of it, you already know?” says Smith. “It truly is open and ethereal and welcoming, despite the fact that it has fairly darkish lyrical content material. It’s form of vivid and breezy.”