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NBA Finals | Game 4 | Mavericks 122, Celtics 84

The look of defeat was evident on the Celtics bench late in Game 4.

Don’t worry, Celtics fans. OK, maybe worry a little bit.

Friday’s outcome was such a thorough and ruthless dissection that what would have been considered irrational thoughts before the game started sounding awfully rational afterward.

See photos from the game What has Kyrie Irving learned since his time with the Celtics? It’s not that the Celtics squandered a chance to win an NBA title. It’s how they did it that’s the real concern.

Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and the Celtics don’t let the noise affect them, but they do hear it.

Will the national narrative around the Celtics finally change now?

Streamers fall around Jayson Tatum (left) as the Celtics leave the court following a blowout loss to the Mavericks.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics getting blown out by the Mavericks in Game 4 has an upside: They can win Banner 18 on the fabled parquet floor Monday

If the Celtics go on to win the NBA championship, Jayson Tatum will no doubt be joined in the celebration by son Deuce.

On Father’s Day, we’re reminded that every day around these Celtics is Family Day

The moms, the dads, the kids, the husbands, the wives — like a growing army they’ve joined the Celtics players all season.

Trooper testifies that data from Karen Read’s SUV was ‘consistent with’ pedestrian strike
A digital forensic expert also testified as the the seventh week of the murder trial came to a close Friday.

Beth Teitell: So help us God. Thanks to Trooper Proctor, the Karen Read trial gets even uglier. What to know about Michael Proctor, lead investigator in the Karen Read case

A hot buttered lobster roll and a cold lobster roll with mayo. Which would you choose?

NATIONAL LOBSTER DAY

Is the best lobster roll hot or cold? Two Globe writers face off.

Let’s be clear: All lobster rolls are good lobster rolls. But in the game of "if you could only eat just one variety for the rest of time," which is superior: Hot with butter or cold with mayo? There's a lot to chew on.

Our travel writer shares his New England summertime favorites, from the best beach to the perfect miniature golf course

Large and venomous Joro spiders are moving up the East Coast. Experts share what to know about the invasive species.
The invasive species is not native to North America and has been spreading since it was first spotted in Georgia nearly a decade ago.

They were fake electors for Trump in 2020. Now in Milwaukee they’ll get to help make him the official 2024 nominee.

At least 17 false electors from 2020 have been selected as delegates for the 2024 convention, a sign of the enduring influence of the election denial movement in Trump's GOP.

Trump’s Michigan trip will include stops at a Black church and a gathering of far-right activists

Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to pay $1.5b Sandy Hook debt. Company bankruptcy is dismissed.

Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Jones’ proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation but threw out the attempted reorganization of his company, Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Systems.

Biden goes straight from G7 to Hollywood fundraiser, balancing geopolitics with his reelection bid
President Biden will shift focus from Russia’s challenge of Western unity to raking in big bucks for his reelection campaign at a Hollywood fundraiser featuring George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Harris stepping in for Biden at Ukraine summit as she takes growing role in heat of 2024 campaign Zelenskyy eyes ‘history being made’ at Swiss-hosted Ukraine peace conference

Princess of Wales joins royals on Buckingham Palace balcony after cancer diagnosis early this year
Britain put on a display of birthday pageantry Saturday for King Charles III, a military parade that marked the Princess of Wales ' first public appearance since her cancer diagnosis early this year.

Search continues for suspect in Seaport shooting following school graduation

The investigation remains open and no arrests had been made by Friday evening, police told the Boston Globe.

Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers’ lives
The beleaguered director of Haiti’s National Police has been ousted following months of criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to protect officers under assault by gangs.

Four tourists injured near Boston Common after they verbally intervene in road rage incident

Auburn firefighters hose down the remains of home in Auburn, Maine, early Saturday, June 15, 2024.

Police in Maine cancel shelter-in-place order after explosions and fire are reported

Dave Dombrowski was named Phillies president of baseball operations after the 2020 season.

Dave Dombrowski isn’t slowing down after 47 years in baseball. He hopes the Phillies are his next World Series winner.

The 67-year-old has worked in professional baseball since 1978. His career includes stints running baseball operations for the Expos, Marlins, Tigers, Red Sox, and now the Phillies.

A Table Talk worker moves pies into correct lines at their Worcester facility. The company expanded its production facilities in 2023, roughly a year after the company nearly shut down.

Worcester-based Table Talk Pies sold to Minneapolis baking company

Table Talk Pies, an iconic New England brand, said Friday it has been sold to Rise Baking Company for an undisclosed amount of money. Operations in central Massachusetts are expected to continue unchanged, the company said.

Entering this season, Nathan MacKinnon of the Avalanche was the most recent No. 1 overall pick to win the Stanley Cup.

Kevin Paul Dupont | Sunday hockey notes

NHL No. 1 picks get a lot of attention, but it’s far from a lock that they’ll go on to win the Stanley Cup

Opinion

Warren Brodey, captured in a 1969 film made by Brandeis students about his playful and exploratory computer lab in Boston.

IDEAS | EVGENY MOROZOV

The Boston hippies who developed technologies that Silicon Valley wouldn’t dare to make

Today’s self-proclaimed tech "disrupters" have nothing on the countercultural nerds working out of a Lewis Wharf lab in the 1960s.

William Taubman

Donald Trump’s self-fulfilling crusade

MARCELA GARCÍA

The Karen Read trial and TikTok bias

Primary care is in crisis. Here’s how to fix it.

Christopher Weyant

Obsessive control issues

LGBTQ Pride Month

The rainbow flag flies over Boston during the Pride Week (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff)

Boston Globe Today

‘Pride is a riot’: Elevating queer voices and stories in June

The Boston Pride for the People parade and festival, held Saturday in Boston, is estimated to draw more than 1 million people.

Boston Pride parade awash in positivity

Actress Elizabeth Montgomery, right, in character as Serena, Samantha's sassy cousin on the beloved sitcom Bewitched, on location in Gloucester in 1970. She is talking to the famed Gloucester fisherman, whose statue came to life in a memorable episode, "Darrin on a Pedestal."

Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester explores the LGBTQ+ appeal of ‘Bewitched,’ the classic TV sitcom

Leslie Rosenberg of Boston sported a pair of rainbow boots to match her rainbow skirt at a Pride flag raising at Boston City Hall on June 3.

PARENTING UNFILTERED

How parents can support LGBTQ+ youth in an often hostile world

More recent News

They made it from Haiti to Boston. Now, they’re graduates.
The culinary arts school graduates, age 27 to 48, were among the 11,633 migrants who entered Massachusetts last fiscal year. The vast majority of those newcomers hailed from Haiti, where violence and political instability has surged.

Food delivery driver in Allston stabbed, slashed on arms and hands, apparently by angry customers
A man was injured late Thursday night when two men jumped into his vehicle, held a knife to his neck, and apparently stabbed him in both hands, Boston police said Friday.

Dinner with Cupid

‘Opening up to a lawyer during a blind date is not easy!’
Will these two Duke University alums be a match?

Residents, communities preparing for heat wave that will envelop Midwest, Northeast next week
Things are about to heat up in much of the US with dangerously hot temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast next week, prompting health officials to urge people to make plans now to stay safe.

Father’s Day outlook: ‘Stellar’ summer weekend after a stormy Friday

Mistrial declared in case of former Hudson middle school teacher accused of sexually assaulting student

Caitlin Harding was accused of sexually assaulting the student multiple times in 2010.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

The Jets show once again that dysfunction is in their DNA
The minicamp absences of Aaron Rodgers and Haason Reddick reveal an organization that is forever destined to trip over itself.

Recommended reads

Ben Dyer posed for a portrait with then girlfriend Keela Smith in November, 2023. The couple became engaged in May.

‘Love hasn’t failed yet’. He survived the Maine shootings with his partner by his side. Now, they’re engaged.

“Love hasn’t failed yet. We have come through this together and we have become stronger together,” Ben Dyer said.

More coverage of the Lewiston shootings

What happens when sheep meet solar panels? A ‘beautiful symbiotic relationship.’
Agrivoltaics, or the practice of using land for both agriculture and renewable energy, is increasing in Massachusetts, making for some unexpected partnerships.

Cold Case Files

‘I don’t know why they’re not talking.’ People know who killed Charline Rosemond. They’re not cooperating with police.
Charline Rosemond borrowed her father’s car to go to work one morning in 2009. Almost a week later, she was found dead in Somerville.

‘If we lose the hospital, where are we going to go?’ A community is on edge amid Steward bankruptcy.
There are no clear answers to questions facing communities like Haverhill that are home to Steward hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country.

Culture & Lifestyle

The second season of "House of the Dragon" premieres Sunday.

‘House of the Dragon’: 5 things to know ahead of Sunday’s season two premiere

A summer screening of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" at Boston Common last year. More free movie nights in public parks, put on by the City of Boston, will be held this August.

Six Bay State film fests and events to soak up this summer

From left: Hong Chau, Casey Affleck, and Matt Damon in "The Instigators."

First trailer for Matt Damon and Casey Affleck’s ‘The Instigators’ features Fenway, Gronk, and a whole lot of Boston

Hanover, NH - 6/5/2024 Intern Kaitlyn Anderson (cq) was working with Photographer Cara Romero (cq) who stages and photographs elaborate scenes. Romero has a show coming to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College . She and her crew were creating works for that show. (Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff)

Photographer turns subjects into life-sized ‘American Girl’ dolls, with an Indigenous twist

Special Projects

Illustration of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White along with other NBA greats for the 2024 Finals preview.

Where do the 2023-24 Celtics stand among the greatest teams in NBA history?

If Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown beat the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals and carry the team to Banner No. 18, their legacies would be cemented. But all of this year’s success means nothing without a ring.

Lauren Friel (left) owner of Rebel Rebel, chatted with customers while working at her wine bar in Bow Market in Somerville. The restrictive Boston liquor license system has pushed throngs of innovative chefs to neighborhood towns with laxer laws, including Brookline, Somerville, and Cambridge.

Priced out: How Boston’s broken liquor license system drives chefs from the city

A stubbornly high price tag for serving alcohol hurts thousands of hospitality workers, aspiring restaurateurs, and the city itself.

Interactive map

Pothole season is upon us. See which neighborhoods have the most reports

Boston’s 311 data provides a day-by-day look at the condition of the city’s streets and sidewalks, which neighborhoods are hit hardest, and just how fast repairs are made.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Samuel and Martha-Ann Alito.

Flagging Martha-Ann Alito’s right-wing flag-flying antics

A patient prepared to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to the medication.

The Supreme Court delivered a win for abortion access, but the war is far from over

IDEAS | SEÁN CARLSON

What’s in a name? In Ireland, a host of letters that Americans find hard to pronounce

Beware of identity fraud empowered by generative AI

For assistance in dying, please press 1

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Photos: Celtics lose to Mavericks in Game 4 of the NBA Finals

Dallas avoided elimination and forced a Game 5 on Monday in Boston. See images from Globe photographers at the game.

‘It’s a wrap’: With Celtics loss, dejected fans pour out of TD Garden watch party

Early Friday night, around 16,000 Celtics fans packed the Garden, confidence sky-high. Dallas had other ideas.

Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester explores the LGBTQ+ appeal of ‘Bewitched,’ the classic TV sitcom

When she hid her magic from all mortals, was TV witch Samantha Stephens also sending a message of solidarity to other marginalized groups, particularly the LGBTQ+ community? Hammond Castle hosts a day of screening an episode of the show filmed in Gloucester on Saturday as part of its first-ever Pride Month.

Here’s a partial list of events to celebrate Juneteenth in Greater Boston

Concerts, performances, and community gatherings will be spread across Boston and surrounding communities leading up to Wednesday in celebration of Juneteenth.

Sports

If the Celtics go on to win the NBA championship, Jayson Tatum will no doubt be joined in the celebration by son Deuce.

On Father’s Day, we’re reminded that every day around these Celtics is Family Day

The moms, the dads, the kids, the husbands, the wives — like a growing army they’ve joined the Celtics players all season.

Delivering a powerful serve against Bedford’s Dillon Denny-Brown, Weston senior Max Ding registered a 6-4, 6-1 win at first singles to close out a 3-2 victory.

D3 BOYS' TENNIS: WESTON 3, BEDFORD 2

In finale, Max Ding nets decisive win at first singles as Weston boys take Division 3 title, program’s seventh straight

The senior recorded a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Bedford's Dillon Denny-Brown to lift the Wildcats (14-6) to their 13th overall championship.

It was a rough night for the Celtics down in Dallas.

Garden Party: Yikes!

A history of NBA Finals massacres.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Dave Dombrowski isn’t slowing down after 47 years in baseball. He hopes the Phillies are his next World Series winner.

With every Celtics championship has come superb play from the guards

Chad Finn | Sports Media

Will the national narrative around the Celtics finally change now?

Business

US military targets Houthi radar sites in Yemen after a merchant sailor goes missing

The US military unleashed a wave of attacks targeting radar sites operated by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over their assaults on shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor, authorities said Saturday.

Worcester-based Table Talk Pies sold to Minneapolis baking company

Table Talk Pies, an iconic New England brand, said Friday it has been sold to Rise Baking Company for an undisclosed amount of money. Operations in central Massachusetts are expected to continue unchanged, the company said.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, rapid-fire gun accessories used in 2017 Las Vegas massacre

Pine Street Inn graduates 75 students from its job training program

magazine

A healthy beech leaf on the left and one infected by the beech-killing worm on the right.

A tree-killing worm may spell the end of autumn's yellow hues

Jo Douglas trails behind some of her heifers.

Martha's Vineyard

She wanted cows for her growing farm. First, she had to catch them.

The writer as an infant, held by his mother and surrounded by his father, brothers, and dog.

I couldn’t remember my dad’s voice. He died when I was only 4.

This week's daters: Courtney and Andrew

Dinner with Cupid

‘Opening up to a lawyer during a blind date is not easy!’

metro

Chris Soldani waved a Celtics flag on Causeway Street before heading into TD Garden to watch Game 4 of the NBA Finals Friday night.

Hopeful Celtics fans now pin hopes on Monday

They made it from Haiti to Boston. Now, they’re graduates.

Quick-hitting thunderstorms dump rain, hail across Boston, rest of New England

sports

Kyrie Irving believes the Mavericks have set the foundation for more deep playoff runs, and he plans to be the central figure.

What has Kyrie Irving learned since his time with the Celtics?

The Jets show once again that dysfunction is in their DNA

NHL No. 1 picks get a lot of attention, but it’s far from a lock that they’ll go on to win the Stanley Cup

business

An Airbus A220 landed at Toulouse-Blagnac airport in southwestern France. Federal regulators are investigating how parts made with counterfeit titanium wound up in some Boeing and Airbus passenger jets that were built in recent years.

FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets

Self-flying plane startup lands $105 million defense contract

City of Boston approves new measures to protect Long Wharf from flooding

politics

President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Brindisi International Airport, June 14, in Brindisi, Italy, with his granddaughter Maisy Biden.

Biden goes straight from G7 to Hollywood fundraiser, balancing geopolitics with his reelection bid

Harris stepping in for Biden at Ukraine summit as she takes growing role in heat of 2024 campaign

They were fake electors for Trump in 2020. Now in Milwaukee they’ll get to help make him the official 2024 nominee.

Nation

Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures before walking off the stage after speaking at his birthday celebration, hosted by Club 47, in West Palm Beach, Fla., on June 14.

Trump’s Michigan trip will include stops at a Black church and a gathering of far-right activists

Residents, communities preparing for heat wave that will envelop Midwest, Northeast next week

Police in Maine cancel shelter-in-place order after explosions and fire are reported

World

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) is welcomed by Switzerland's Ambassador to Ukraine Felix Baumann (L) and Deputy Head of Swiss Protocol Manuel Irman (R) as he arrives at the Zurich airport on June 14, ahead of the Ukraine Peace Summit in Switzerland.

World leaders meet in Switzerland to discuss a Ukraine peace roadmap. Russia is notably absent

Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers’ lives

Princess of Wales joins royals on Buckingham Palace balcony after cancer diagnosis early this year

opinion

Primary care is in crisis. Here’s how to fix it.

The integrity of the highest court is no longer supreme

Could this be the dawn of the next Boston sports dynasty?

lifestyle

Franklin resident Marcella DiChiara on season three of "The Great American Recipe," a cooking competition show. The new season premieres Monday on PBS.

Franklin’s Marcella DiChiara showcases Sicilian culture, cuisine on new season of ‘The Great American Recipe’

Someone at work is in love with me

For Father’s Day, 60 life lessons from 60 dads

food & dining

A hot buttered lobster roll and a cold lobster roll with mayo. Which would you choose?

Is the best lobster roll hot or cold? Two Globe writers face off.

The Friendly Toast goes nut-free, Zurito replaces Bin 26 Enoteca, and pups take over patios

It’s not your imagination. Men really do eat more meat than women, study says.

travel

A three-mile portion of the Island Line Trail in Burlington, Vt., stretches over Lake Champlain.

Our travel writer shares his New England summertime favorites, from the best beach to the perfect miniature golf course

This South Shore town was selected as the best seaside small town to visit in America in 2024, according to Smithsonian Magazine

30 years of bad art, Oregon’s biggest music festival, and a last-minute gift for an outdoorsy dad

Arts

Actress Elizabeth Montgomery, right, in character as Serena, Samantha's sassy cousin on the beloved sitcom Bewitched, on location in Gloucester in 1970. She is talking to the famed Gloucester fisherman, whose statue came to life in a memorable episode, "Darrin on a Pedestal."

Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester explores the LGBTQ+ appeal of ‘Bewitched,’ the classic TV sitcom

Sarah Ganz Blythe to lead Harvard Art Museums

Fruitlands Museum to reopen its galleries with three exhibitions focused on Native American Art

Books

Freddie, the store cat, at Stillwater Books in West Warwick.

📚 Your favorite Rhode Island bookstores

‘Code Dependent’ dives into AI’s harms

A geek’s guide to Fan Expo Boston: See Marisa Tomei and other stars, party with cosplayers, plus more nerdy fun

Movies

A summer screening of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" at Boston Common last year. More free movie nights in public parks, put on by the City of Boston, will be held this August.

Six Bay State film fests and events to soak up this summer

‘Tuesday’: Death, be not proud

First trailer for Matt Damon and Casey Affleck’s ‘The Instigators’ features Fenway, Gronk, and a whole lot of Boston

Television

The second season of "House of the Dragon" premieres Sunday.

‘House of the Dragon’: 5 things to know ahead of Sunday’s season two premiere

Expect performances aplenty on Tony Awards telecast

Everything you need to know about the Tony Awards 2024

music

This year's Boston Pizza Festival takes place on City Hall Plaza June 22-23.

Five things to do around Boston, June 17-23

R.E.M. reunite at Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony also honoring Timbaland and Steely Dan

The Who’s Roger Daltrey, talkin’ ’bout his generation

Theater/Dance

Leslie Odom Jr. in "Purlie Victorious."

Who will win at the 2024 Tonys, and who should

Everything you need to know about the Tony Awards 2024

At ART, a ‘Gatsby’ that’s great

Health

The emergency department at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

Owner of 2 safety-net hospitals in R.I. ordered to pay $17m within 10 days

In CVS’s home state, pharmacists in 2 retail stores vote to unionize

What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people

Obituaries

Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jews attended the funeral of Rabbi Kotlarsky in New York early this month.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, 75, dies; expanded Chabad’s global reach

Harrison White, groundbreaking (and inscrutable) sociologist, dies at 94

Akira Endo, researcher who found cholesterol-fighting statins, dies at 90