Dajuan Eubanks, president of the newly named Maine Celtics, speaks at a news conference announcing the name change at Ocean Gateway in Portland on Monday. Mike Lowe photo
The Maine Red Claws are a thing of the past.
From now on, the NBA G League team will be known as the Maine Celtics, complete with a new logo.
The change was announced Monday morning by the NBA’s Boston Celtics, owners of the Portland franchise since 2019.
“When we purchased the Maine franchise in 2019, we immediately made that organization a part of our family,” Boston Celtics President Rich Gotham said in a news release. “The decision to rename the team to ‘Maine Celtics’ is the next step in that evolution, and a nod to our diehard fan base, which extends throughout the great state of Maine.”
The G League franchise has played at the Portland Expo since 2009 and has been affiliated with the Boston Celtics since 2012.
“I’m as excited about this change as I was when we started the Maine Red Claws back in 2009,” said Maine Celtics President Dajuan Eubanks. “Directly aligning our franchise name with the iconic Boston Celtics brand creates a new era of heritage building for basketball here in Maine.”
The new logo contains the central element of the now-retired Red Claws logo – the fierce-looking lobster holding a basketball.
This story will be updated.
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May 24, 2021 at 10:00PM
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