Today in Boston Celtics history, the storied franchise achieved its first-ever playoff series victory against the Syracuse ...

The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball ...

Even now — several months removed from those frantic final moments in what would be the last game of the season — it all seems so vivid. Without much prodding, Vitaly Potapenko closes his eyes after ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Cavaliers center Vitaly Potapenko is returning to the team as a player-development coach, NBA sources have confirmed. The move was first reported by Yahoo Sports. Potapenko, ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder (and the Seattle Supersonics before them) have 51 jersey numbers worn by the players who have suited up for the franchise since its founding at the start of the 1967-68 ...

There are changes coming to the Cleveland Cavaliers, including the coaching staff. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported the Cavs are losing Vitaly Potapenko, who has been a member of their player ...

With J.B. Bickerstaff putting his Detroit Pistons coaching staff together, changes continue to take place. On Sunday, it was reported another assistant was joining the organization. According to ...

If you haven’t heard the news, former Cavaliers’ big man Vitaly Potapenko — the “Ukraine Train” — is returning to the organization as a player development coach. Potapenko wasn’t exactly a force with ...

Finally, the rehabilitation was finished. Vitaly Potapenko felt whole again. He had made it all the way back from the 2002 surgery on his left knee’s ACL. He was moving laterally without pain. He was ...

The left knee is still a sore subject for Vitaly Potapenko. Just not too sore. Not like the weeks following surgery last May, when doctors repaired the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right ...

Sonics center Vitaly Potapenko was arrested early Sunday outside a nightclub in Miami Beach, Fla., and charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence, both misdemeanors.