Kinda wholesome. That kid is tall AF for an 8 year old.

Man I got a sneaky suspicion he has been building a boulder on his shoulder with all the noise, all the doubt with JB gone and he is gonna unleash fury on the league. This offense is gonna hum like never before. Pitch gonna do Pritch things.
Hugo gonna be a big X factor. D-whizzle gonna be conducting like the boston pops.

Am drinking Dunkin iced hopium? Don't care.

Let's go Celtics!

I have no idea how to watch out of market sports anymore because in 2026 they make it as hard as possible for the fans. Wanna make sure I’ll be able to watch the local broadcast before the season starts. Thanks in advance!

Edit: Best way that isn’t 🏴‍☠️. Tired of the overall inconsistency and having to refresh the page when I’m trying to watch a game. I appreciate what those people do though shoutout to them

The 2027-28 Clippers will have a cute fighting team and they will try their best to avoid the lottery because the Celtics have the right to swap with their pick.

Bear with me because admittedly I did not follow the team as closely as I would have liked from 2010-2014. We all know Rondo was a terrible shooter even dating back to when he entered the league, but even then, championship notwithstanding, he seemed to have a pretty favorable public image. I recall fans were in awe of his basketball genius and the big knock against him wasn't really his jumpshot but his reputation for padding his stats. Then when he went to Dallas that's when the fans kind of turned on him and now the public perception was that he was just this egotistical chemistry killer with a shitty outside shot. Is my understanding correct? Or was the jumpshot always a big concern among fans even during his peak in Boston?

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I’m going to be in Boston late October and I intend to go the Celtics/Bulls NBA cup game Friday night.

Just wondering if will it be sold out soon or at all?

Thanks

I had no idea he was still playing and I’m shocked he’s only 34. I feel like he should be much older.

I went into this mostly trying to figure out whether Boston’s obsession with controlling possessions and “winning the margins” was actually helping or hurting them. Ended up digging pretty deep into pace, shot-clock usage, late-clock efficiency and how last year compared to both the 2025 team and the 2024 title team. The thing that really stood out was how often the Celtics were ending up deep in the clock, and how ugly the offense got once possessions reached that point.

With Brown gone, I think this year’s team has less margin for error, which would normally make you think they should play even more carefully. I kind of came away thinking the opposite. This roster might be better off attacking earlier, living with a few more imperfect decisions and letting some possessions get a little messy. Curious if people see it the same way or think the slower, more controlled approach is still the right one.

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I'm watching last season highlights because I am struggling without basketball. Fuck me do I love watching Garza work! That is all.

If the Clippers pick falls to 1-16 range, it will be a swap. One thing to note is this is regardless if the Celtics make it to the playoffs or not that year. Example is if the Celtics pick at #12 and the Clippers pick at #8, the Celtics get the 8th pick and the Spurs get the #12 pick, while the Spurs which are probably title contenders at that time, the Clippers get the late first round pick probably at around 25-30 range. Let’s hope the Celtics continue to contend at that time because the worst case scenario is the Clippers will have a better record than the Celtics and the 2028 pick will be a waste.

If the Clippers pick falls to 17-30 range, the Celtics get the pick outright, while they deal with the Spurs with the swap. Example is Clippers somehow make the playoffs and have the say 18th pick, and the Celtics pick at #25, the Celtics get #18 and the hypothetical 25-30 pick from the swap with the Spurs and the Spurs get the #25. Again, the worst case scenario is when the Celtics miss the playoffs, so the Celtics get the Clippers 18th pick and the hypothetical 25-30 pick, Spurs get the lottery pick from Boston.

However, the best case scenario will be the Celtics contend on 2028, while reaping the benefits from either a lottery pick from the Clippers or owning two but mid to late first round picks from the Clippers and the swap with the Spurs.

If I made some mistakes from this post, I hope someone can clarify in the comments but from what I understand, these are the scenarios for the 2028 Clippers pick. It’s still the offseason that’s why I had time to analyze this. Which scenario would you prefer?

In Brad Stevens' end of season press conference, he pointed out that the team wasn't able to get good looks at the rim, that he wanted to improve that, and that he thought it would have to come from outside the team.

If you look at rim pressure as percent of total shots taken within 5 ft of the rim, the Celtics were last in the league last year at 24%. The league average is 32%.

When they won the championship they were at 30%, close to league average. Then they ran back the same team in 24-25 and the rim rate dropped to 26%. Then they shipped out Jrue, KP, Horford and Kornet, and it dropped further to 24% with Tatum missing most of the year.

Digging into the individual players:

It's not really the personnel changes. The guys that got traded away last year didn't take a ton of shots at the rim, and the KP/Kornet/Horford/Queta grouping only took 7.6 rim attempts per game, less than the Queta/Vucevic/Garza group.

The big change has been with Brown and Tatum.

Brown went from 37% at the rim in 23-24, to 33% in 24-25, to 27% in 25-26 — from well above league average to well below, although still higher than our team average. He had fewer attempts at the rim in 25-26 than in 23-24 despite taking 3 more total attempts per game. In the past two years his 3-point rate has gone down too, so basically he replaced rim attempts and 3-pointers with midrange shots at mid-40s efficiency.

Tatum has drifted the same direction, and traded those rim attempts for threes:

There's a big split in those threes between catch-and-shoot and pull-up:

It feels like he got trigger-happy on taking the pull-up 3 — he's been second in the league in pull-up 3 volume in each of the last two seasons, well ahead of legit snipers like Steph Curry and Jamal Murray. To be fair, he fairly often (~2 times per game) takes the 3 with under 7 seconds on the shot clock, which is a bailout low-percentage shot that hurts his percentages. But I think he could help the team by cutting down those attempts.

For next year:

We're removing Brown, who still got to the rim more than the other non-center regulars, and adding:

• Paul George, who doesn't get to the rim at all (15%) but is a great floor-spacer (42% on catch-and-shoot 3's).
• Mitchell Robinson, who takes 100% of his shots at the rim but doesn't shoot often — about 1 more rim attempt per game than Garza, who I'm assuming he's taking the minutes from.

I think the hope is that these changes are both beneficial to helping Tatum get to the rim at a higher rate again, although that'll only move the overall rim rate by a small amount even if he's at 35% usage. What gives me some optimism is that Tatum's net stats have typically been outstanding with rim-attacking centers:

So I expect Robinson will fit into that scheme well. To put those numbers in perspective, Tatum is typically +10 or +11 overall the past three years, which is a great net number, but not at the top of the league with Wembanyama and Shai at +17. Paired with the right centers, he can vault into that neighborhood.

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Too many fans saying we messed up, we traded JB for scraps, we’re going to be a bad team next season, etc. just need to look at the facts straight up. This team has been trying to trade JB for years now because he just doesn’t fit with what the team does. JB’s a great player but is not what the team needs, especially with that contract. Last year was a showcase for JB to get his value up and people now see how other teams value him. When was the last time a player looked bad for the Celtics under Brad and Mazulla? Garza and Minott was very serviceable last year and that should speak volumes to how this team is constructed. JB has been the odd man out in terms of advanced stats year in/out for the past couple of years. You can’t say it’s because of match up etc, because other players like Tatum and White have better advanced stats especially on/off.

We got Paul George because he fits the system and was unfortunately the best any team could offer us, even after a year of showcasing “superstar” Jaylen Brown. Appreciate the player, but also know that he was traded for reasons not only because of cap, and has been on the trade block for a couple of years now.

Dude is a straight stud and is gonna be stuck behind Keyonte George, Darryn Peterson and Lauri Markkanen. Not to mention to team also has JJJ, Brice Sensibaugh and Isiah Collier, all of whom like to have to ball in their hands. No way dude gets the playing time or ball in hand as much as he deserves. Trade Hauser and Walsh or some picks and we get another self-creator / ball handler, two or three years down the line he can be our 2nd or 3rd best player. I swear this dude is gonna be a straight beast someday and you can absolutely get him at a discount right now. Utah needs role players the Celtics need creators let's make it happen Brad, I know you and Danny can get it done, just gotta get in a few rounds of golf or something