Michael Holley revisits Rick Pitino and the Celtics attempting to trade for Bulls superstar Scottie Pippen after missing out ...

He pointed out that their success in developing young athletes doesn't necessarily translate to coaching the most refined ...

Rick Pitino is one of the most legendary coaches ... and an assistant (1983-85) and the Boston Celtics as a head coach (1997-2001). Ranking all 68 of the 2025 men's March Madness teams by mascot ...

SAN ANTONIO — The gap in Rick Pitino’s resume when he left Kentucky to coach the Boston Celtics used to prompt hypothetical arguments on how many wins he’d have had he never left college basketball.

Rick Pitino wasn’t interested in hyping up his ... A year later, Pitino, too, went to the NBA to coach the Boston Celtics. Their paths would cross again in the early 2000s, when Calipari went ...

This year's NCAA tournament will deliver a top-tier coaching matchup in the round of 32 when Rick Pitino's St ... back to the NBA in 1997 as the Boston Celtics' head coach, where he coached ...

These two classic foes facing off one more time, with a Sweet 16 trip on the line, is the matchup of the weekend ...

John’s head coach Rick Pitino has had a Hall of Fame career ... to the Final Four and coached in the NBA with the Boston Celtics. But throughout his five decades in the game, Pitnio says ...

But across various levels of basketball, there has been at least one constant for decades: Rick Pitino ... in Boston. While he made the NBA playoffs twice with New York, the Celtics missed the ...

IN DEPTH: Rick Pitino restores St. John's to NCAA Tournament ... they overlapped as NBA coaches with the New Jersey Nets and Boston Celtics, respectively, over two seasons. We occasionally ...

A legendary coaching matchup between Rick Pitino and John Calipari ... went 3-3 against each other in NBA games, when Pitino coached the Boston Celtics and Calipari was with the Nets.