John Karalis started covering the Boston Celtics in 2006 on his blog, Red's Army, and in 2018 he began covering the team full-time at MassLive and then Boston Sports Journal. He was a four-year starter and two-year captain at Emerson College in Boston, where he was the first player to ever go pro and remains the school's all-time leading rebounder. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Brie, stepson Giacobbe, and two dogs, Teddy and Speedy.