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 ...

Arianna Lacerte grew up around the Boston Celtics because of her dad’s job. But it wasn’t just a mutual love of sports that attracted Josh Kipnis — it was their shared love of family. By Tammy LaGorce ...

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 ...

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 ...

After former Celtics trainer Ed Lacerte was diagnosed with acute monocytic leukemia, the team wore shirts and held a donor registry Lacerte's daughter held her wedding ceremony in his hospital room ...

Josh Kipnis and Arianna Lacerte fast-tracked their wedding plans after Arianna's father, Ed Lacerte, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. They wed on Nov. 24 in Ed's hospital ...