Longtime Boston Celtics and USA Basketball athletic trainer Ed Lacerte has been diagnosed with acute monocytic leukemia. Lacerte needs a blood stem cell transplant to beat the rare and aggressive form ...

As Ed Lacerte started to fight for his life, the calls and messages flooded in. Magic Johnson reached out. So did Paul Pierce, Isaiah Thomas, Ray Allen and Kevin McHale. Lacerte, the athletic trainer ...

Fans in attendance on Dec. 15, 19 and 22 can join the national blood stem cell donor registry by getting their cheeks swabbed. Jon Hartzell, NBA.com Ed Lacerte (left) won his 3rd Joe O’Toole NBA ...

Longtime Celtics public relations director Jeff Twiss still remembers the 1991 playoff game against the Pacers when Larry Bird catapulted himself across the floor chasing a loose ball and hit his head ...

Pacers coach Rick Carlisle made an appeal on behalf of Ed Lacerte, who served for 30 years as the Celtics’ head trainer and physical therapist. Michael Hickey / Getty Images BOSTON — Indiana Pacers ...

The Boston Celtics issued a desperate plea to fans on Monday as they revealed a former member of staff had been given a heartbreaking health diagnosis. Dr. Ed Lacerte, the former head athletic trainer ...

The newlyweds hope to raise awareness for the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)'s registry to help Ed Lacerte and others in need find blood stem cell matches Josh Kipnis and Arianna Lacerte ...

The Boston Celtics on Monday revealed that the team’s longtime athletic trainer is battling cancer. Dr. Ed Lacerte, who served as the Head Athletic Trainer and Physical Therapist for the Celtics for ...

Rick Carlisle highlighted the importance of becoming a donor, after the leukemia diagnosis of former Boston Celtics head trainer Ed Lacerte Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...

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