Celtics Lab NBA Basketball Podcast
258 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Celtics Lab, we go deep into the details, finding compelling narratives, data, stories, and interviews you won't find anywhere else. Whether you're looking for a different take on the Celtics news of the week or an angle that needs a deeper dive, we have you covered! Join hosts Alex Goldberg, Justin Quinn, and Cameron Tabatabaie for their weekly forays into the Boston Celtics news you didn't know you needed.
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How important is Boston winning Game 5 for hanging Banner 18?
June 12, 2022 17:54 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBBy now, just about every Boston Celtics fan with access to the internet knows the statistic regarding the winners of Game 5 in an NBA postseason series, but this Game 5 in the team's 2022 NBA Finals series against the Golden State Warriors feels especially important. Just how critical is it for the Celtics to steal another game on the road in their quest to hang an NBA-record 18th banner in the rafters of TD Garden? Perhaps even more importantly, what did Game 4's loss teach us about what m...
Recapping Boston's big Game 3 win over the Golden State Warriors
June 09, 2022 15:14 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBAfter an impressive Game 3 win over the Golden State Warriors on their home court of TD Garden on Wednesday night, the Boston Celtics now find themselves just two wins away from hanging Banner 18. How did it happen? Who stepped up and took care of business? What didn't go quite right despite the win? What did the Warriors do differently, and how did Boston respond? And more important than all of that, how are we feeling about being in the driver's seat with both teams now having a potential...
Sorting out Game 3 of the Celtics' 2022 NBA Finals with Ky Carlin
June 06, 2022 23:30 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThe Boston Celtics fell victim to their worst tendencies in their Game 2 matchup with the Golden State Warriors in the 2022 NBA Finals, and against the Dubs, careless turnovers and passive possessions rarely if ever end well for the opposing teams. The Celtics found out why on their way to a 107-88 loss and a 1-1 series tie on Sunday evening but now head back to TD Garden for a Game 3 contest on their own home court. What went wrong in Game 2 for the Celtics? How big of a role did refs play...
Divining how Golden State will respond to Boston's Game 1 win with Tommy Call III
June 04, 2022 02:31 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBGiven the number of outliers we saw from both the Boston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors in alternating quarters of Game 1 of their 2022 NBA Finals series on Thursday, we can assume that however the two teams approach Game 2, the outcome will not resemble the previous contest's. The Celtics role players will likely shoot worse, and Jayson Tatum better; Draymond Green and the Dubs will defend Boston better, and Stephen Curry will probably not put up the bulk of his offense in just one ...
Previewing Celtics-Dubs and the evolution of space in the NBA with Mike Prada
June 02, 2022 00:31 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBIn many ways, the 2022 NBA Finals series between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors has been a series a long time in coming. From the golden age of the 1960s pitting Bill Russell against Wilt Chamberlain up to the present 3-point revolution sparked in large part because of the Dubs and the defense the Celtics have built to slow, the way these two teams have played one another serves as a tangible history of the league's evolution. It just so happens that The Athletic's Mike Prada ...
The Heat beaten, a look back on the path to the finals ahead of a Warriors showdown
May 31, 2022 00:57 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBEven though it very much looked like it might not have happened in the waning seconds of the Boston Celtics' Game 7 win over the Miami Heat in the 2022 Eastern Conference semifinals as Jimmy Butler's last-second 3-pointer followed its arc on the way to the front of the rim, the Celtics are in fact headed to the 2022 NBA Finals starting next Thursday. Their first trip back there since 2010 and the first trip ever for every member of the current team's roster, it felt right to take a last loo...
Diving into whether Boston can close out their East Finals series vs. the Miami Heat in Game 6 with Gary Gulman
May 26, 2022 23:51 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBThe Boston Celtics are a win away from the 2022 NBA Finals with a 3-2 series lead over the Miami Heat in the 2022 NBA Eastern Conference finals with the opportunity to close out the Heat on their home court of TD Garden. Do the Celtics have the horses after having injured starters Marcus Smart and Robert Williams III play through swelling and discomfort? Can Miami dig deep and find a way to beat Boston on the road to force a decisive Game 7 in Florida? And how to sort through things sports-...
Are there any adjustments left? Exploring the Boston-Miami Heat East finals with Kyle Russell
May 24, 2022 22:51 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBThe Boston Celtics and Miami Heat appear to be trading haymakers in their Eastern Conference finals series as each team adjusts to how the other played in the game prior, and bodies are turning up with the sort of damage one might expect in a match between two heavyweights, both teams looking at playing Game 5 without key players being available. After a 102-82 blowout of the Heat at TD Garden on Monday, the series shifts back to Florida -- have the Celtics found the right way to play in or...
Assessing the East finals vs. Miami 3 games in with Jeff Zillgitt
May 22, 2022 17:20 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThe Boston Celtics are seeing a familiar pattern develop in their Eastern Conference finals series with the Miami Heat that in some ways resembles what unfolded in the last round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs with the Milwaukee Bucks, each team trading wins in the earlier part of the series. But unlike the Bucks, the margins of victory in this series are substantial, and so far injuries -- and players playing through them -- have been an important factor as well. The health of Celtics like Rober...
How can Boston respond to getting smacked by the Miami Heat in Game 2?
May 19, 2022 03:48 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThe Boston Celtics started off their Eastern Conference finals series against the Miami Heat with an excellent first half, only to get punched hard in the mouth in the game's third quarter by the Heat's increased physicality. The team crumpled like a wet cardboard box until they found their legs too late in the fourth quarter to mount a successful comeback, squandering an opportunity to steal a win on the road with Miami point guard Kyle Lowry unavailable. What can the Celtics do in Game 2 ...
Can Boston beat the Miami Heat banged up?
May 17, 2022 23:14 - 28 minutes - 26 MBAny NBA postseason series is about matchups and adjustments, and in the case of the Boston Celtics' 2022 Eastern Conference semifinals series with the No. 1 seeded Miami Heat, they will likely prove critical elements to the team that finds a way to advance to the finals. The Celtics own the best defense in the league in the 2021-22 regular season, but the Heat are not far behind at No. 4 in that department, and both teams have an adaptable style of play and solid coaching staff to guide thei...
Recapping an epic Game 6 vs. Bucks, looking ahead to Game 7 for the Celtics with Jack Simone
May 14, 2022 19:29 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBThe Boston Celtics defied the odds and forced a Game 7 at TD Garden on Sunday with a 109-95 win over star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks, evening up the Eastern Conference semifinals series at 3 games each. What went right for the Celtics to make it happen? What went wrong for the Bucks to keep Boston's 2021-22 season alive? Who deserves the flowers for the guys in green, and what did Milwaukee get wrong? Much more importantly, what implications did the Game 6 victory...
Sorting out the Milwaukee-Boston East semis heading into Game 5 with Avenue
May 11, 2022 00:31 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBFor much of the Game 4 matchup between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks, it looked like the Celtics' season might be on the ropes, with star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks pummeling Boston almost as hard as the unfriendly whistle was. But then, in the second half, after the Greek Freak made another of his typically flashy flushes, Giannis made the mistake of taunting veteran Boston big man Al Horford, kicking his already-excellent play into a career night for the Flor...
Which version of the Boston Celtics will we see in Game 3 vs. Milwaukee with Max Lederman
May 05, 2022 00:36 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBThe Boston Celtics looked like two very different teams in Games 1 and 2 of their second-round series with the Milwaukee Bucks, first getting blown out by the Bucks and then blowing out Milwaukee in return. What impressions can we take away from this series given how disparate the first two games were from one another, and what can we expect to see from both teams moving forward? How will the health of Marcus Smart's thigh contusion and Jaylen Brown's hamstring tightness affect the series? ...
Talking Celtics - Bucks tactical shifts in the East Semifinals with Jared Weiss
April 29, 2022 23:59 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThe Boston Celtics are soon to take on the reigning NBA champions in the 2022 Eastern Conference Semifinals after beating up on the Brooklyn Nets to get the sweep in the first round. But unlike the Nets, the Milwaukee Bucks are no slouch on the defensive end of the court, and could be just as dangerous or even more so putting points on the board as well. How are the Celtics going to have to adapt their play if they want to have a shot at making the Eastern Conference Finals? What will the B...
No sweep 'til Brooklyn (Nets), and a glance at Boston's second round
April 27, 2022 01:13 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBThe Boston Celtics have eliminated the 2022 preseason title favorites in four games, about as improbable an outcome at the midpoint of the season as might be imagined. Yet, the Celtics will advance to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs to face either the Milwaukee Bucks or Chicago Bulls after dispatching the Brooklyn Nets just the same. How did it happen? Who deserves flowers? Where did the Nets go wrong, and what lies in store for them in their future? Your usual hosts Cam...
Looking at how Boston's Game 3 win vs. Brooklyn sheds light on the Celtics' postseason ceiling with Alex King
April 24, 2022 20:23 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThe Boston Celtics are poised to sweep the team that was widely seen as likely to win the 2022 NBA title on the Brooklyn Nets' home court this coming Monday, and questions about what could be going wrong with the Nets has shifted to how impressive the Celtics have been not only in their series with Brooklyn but well before the postseason even began. What did Boston's Game 3 win tell us about the Celtics' title chances? How will the return of big man Robert Williams III inflect those odds? A...
What Game 1 of Brooklyn Nets-Boston Celtics can tell us about the rest of the series with Ajayi Browne
April 20, 2022 01:14 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBWhat can Game 1 of the series between the Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics potentially tell us about what might happen with the rest of the first-round series of the 2022 NBA Eastern Conference playoffs tell us about the rest of the games Boston will play against Brooklyn? On this episode of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast, we brought on Ajayi Browne of Nets Daily to dissect the buzzer-beating win and see how much of what we saw in Game 1 that could have bearing on the contests to foll...
Breaking down the Celtics-Nets series in the 2022 NBA Playoffs with Steve Bulpett
April 16, 2022 17:29 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThe Boston Celtics are gearing up for Game 1 of their first-round series with the Brooklyn Nets this coming Sunday, April 17, hoping to start the 2022 NBA Playoffs out with a win. With one of the league's best offenses, they hope to offset the concentrated firepower of the Nets that is superstar forward Kevin Durant and star point guard Kyrie Irving and their experience winning banners with the top defense in the league and their depth. Who has the coaching advantage with two relatively new...
Talking regular season awards, Timelord, Simmons health with Zak Noble
April 15, 2022 01:39 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThe 2021-22 regular season is in the books and the 2022 NBA Playoff seeding is set, with the Boston Celtics in the running for some hardware for the former and staring down a first-round collision with the Brooklyn Nets regarding the latter. With uncertainty swirling around whether Ime Udoka will nab Coach of the Year, Brad Stevens Executive of the Year, and even whether star forward Jayson Tatum will crack the top 5 of the 2022 Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, we turned to the king of NBA...
The protocols return, the Wiz goes down & building our All-Defensive teams with Josue Pavon
April 07, 2022 18:02 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBAs the 2021-22 NBA regular season draws to a close, so begins the projections of analysts and fans of which players ought to win what end-of-season awards. The Boston Celtics did not at all look like a team that would be in the mix for many if any such hardware at the midpoint of their campaign this season but have since very noticeably turned their season around in a historic way under first-year head coach Ime Udoka. With a league-leading defense and a top-10 offense possessing one of the...
All-NBA, all vaccinated (?), and almost being done with the regular season with Kwani Lunis
April 02, 2022 17:31 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBThe Boston Celtics have at least one player likely to land on an All-NBA team for the 2021-22 season in All-Star forward Jayson Tatum, but due to his eligibility at both guard and forward for the honor (to say nothing of the positional flexibility afforded some stars but not others), it remains unclear whether the St. Louis native will end up with first, second, or third team honors. Uncertainty also abounds in the team's media coverage with potential playoff eligibility in a series against...
Timelord out, punching up, and talking all things Celtics and comedy with Mike Mulloy
March 30, 2022 16:13 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWith news that the Boston Celtics will be without their starting center Robert Williams III for four to six weeks to the social impact of the slap heard 'round the world, there's plenty of space for a comedic perspective in Celtics circles and beyond. To that end, the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast linked up with noted Boston homer, foil to The Ringer's Jason Concepcion, and comedian Mike Mulloy to talk about how the Celtics will cope without Timelord, thoughts about the Oscars and the ro...
Scouting the tourney for second round gems with HoopsHype's Bryan Kalbrosky
March 22, 2022 21:16 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWhile most people are starting to focus on the 2022 NBA Playoff picture starting to come into focus in recent days, a certain subset of NBA draft fanatics are already looking past that to the next big news item on the Boston Celtics' teambuilding agenda -- the 2022 NBA draft. And though the Celtics will not be anywhere near the letter or even the first round of the draft without making some fairly substantial trades to pick up draft assets for this year's big event, they do have a second-ro...
Celtics Lab 98: Scouting the tourney for second round gems with HoopsHype's Bryan Kalbrosky
March 22, 2022 21:16 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWhile most people are starting to focus on the 2022 NBA Playoff picture starting to come into focus in recent days, a certain subset of NBA draft fanatics are already looking past that to the next big news item on the Boston Celtics' teambuilding agenda -- the 2022 NBA draft. And though the Celtics will not be anywhere near the letter or even the first round of the draft without making some fairly substantial trades to pick up draft assets for this year's big event, they do have a second-ro...
Predicting the seeding for the Celtics, Eastern Conference ahead of the 2022 NBA Playoffs
March 18, 2022 02:26 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIt won't be long now until the remaining games for the Boston Celtics of the 2021-22 NBA regular season can be counted with single-digit numbers, and with the 2022 postseason nearly upon us, we can start to get a picture of how the Eastern Conference standings might look when the dust settles on the season. With so much parity in the East among playoff teams, seeding could be as important as it has been in many years for postseason success, with the play-in tournament looking like it may we...
On the 2021-22 Celtics and patience, rooting for Jerry Buss and more with Gary Gulman
March 16, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBFollowers of the Boston Celtics who happen to also be fans of standup comedy are for the most part aware of popular comedian Gary Gulman's love for the team he grew up watching as a native of Peabody, Massachusetts. And Gulman is also a fan of dropping in on Celtics-oriented podcasts while rightly advocating for patience with this up-and-coming roster. So the hosts of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast linked up with Gulman to talk about his prescient analysis of the 2021-22 Boston roster...
On playing with Kevin Garnett, Celtics in the post-Banner 17 era with JR Giddens
March 13, 2022 02:20 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBThe man of the hour this Sunday afternoon will see his No. 5 jersey heading up to Boston Celtics basketball Valhalla to hang amongst the rafters, The Big Ticket's big day finally arriving after the Celtics play the Dallas Mavericks on March 13. And with that caliber event that will see Hall of Fame Boston big man Kevin Garnett be immortalized forever in Celtics lore, we had to record a special edition of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast with a teammate of his from the two seasons follow...
Jersey retirements, KG and Celtics history with Twitter's sports historian Honest Larry
March 11, 2022 20:12 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis Sunday, the Boston Celtics will retire the jersey number of one of the greatest big men to play for the team, Kevin Garnett. Steeped in organizational history as well as the glory of Banner 17, the event -- scheduled after the Celtics' Sunday afternoon matchup with the Dallas Mavericks -- will also incorporate elements of the NBA's 75th-anniversary celebrations. With such a historical moment about to unfold for Boston fans, we hosts of the CLNS Media podcast "Celtics Lab" felt it only ...
Sussing out the facts of where the Celtics are in the East order with Justin Goodrum and Matt Thomas
March 03, 2022 19:46 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBWith the 2022 NBA trade deadline now well behind the Boston Celtics, we have a pretty good idea of what this team is capable of after consolidating talent on the roster to bring back old friend Daniel Theis and trade for their ball-moving defensive specialist Derrick White. But the rest of the league's Eastern Conference did not stand still at the trade deadline for the most part, meaning the landscape of the Celtics' primary arena of competition changed as well -- what should we expect fro...
Talking about Boston's contender status, KG's jersey retirement and more with Jason Terry
February 26, 2022 17:53 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBAs the Boston Celtics inch towards contender status with improved play on both ends of the court at the same time the Brooklyn Nets are trying to find enough health to compete for a title, the two teams could very well be on a postseason collision course. One that began almost a decade ago when a fateful trade sent Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry to Brooklyn, and, given that it is just weeks before Garnett will have his Celtics jersey raised up to the rafters, we couldn’t think ...
Digging into the new-look Celtics and the trade deadline aftermath with Anna Horford
February 23, 2022 02:44 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBThe 2022 NBA trade deadline has come and gone, and with it and the time needed for their young roster and new coach to gel, the Boston Celtics are a very different team. A league-leading defense and a humming offense finally have the Celtics looking like the team many hoped they'd become, with this iteration of the team looking like it's going to make some noise in the postseason. And while there's plenty to be happy about, it's worth remembering that as much as the NBA is a business, much ...
Buyouts, free agents, and other ways to juice the Boston Celtics' roster even more
February 18, 2022 02:05 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThe Boston Celtics by all accounts had themselves a very productive 2022 NBA trade deadline, adding top-flight rotation talent bordering on starting level without paying an exceptionally high price to get the deals done while also consolidating contracts to clear playing time for their younger prospects as well. No easy task, the Celtics now face the next step of their journey back to contention -- adding more talent around the margins as they seek to bolster the defensive firewall that is ...
Taking stock of the Celtics, Eastern Conference after a VERY busy trade deadline with Yossi Gozlan
February 11, 2022 00:45 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBWhile more than a few fans and analysts suspected that the Boston Celtics were set to perhaps at most make a small move to duck under the tax, the team instead re-shaped its roster about as much as is possible without moving core players in a blockbuster deal. Now, after starting the day with 17 players (counting two ways), the team finds itself with five (yes, five) open roster spots, Derrick White from the San Antonio Spurs, Daniel Theis returning from the Houston Rockets and perhaps the ...
Making sense of the early deadline moves, rumors - and what it could mean in the East with Nick Fay
February 09, 2022 01:28 - 59 minutes - 54 MBA flurry of unexpectedly early deals in the 2022 NBA trade deadline season caught fans of the Boston Celtics and wider NBA by surprise Tuesday morning, with plenty of rumbles tied to the Celtics that may yet still unfold as well. As we sift through the detritus of those fairly significant deals between the Indiana Pacers, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, and New Orleans Pelicans to try and divine what might be next for Boston and the rest of the league, the Celtics are poised to ov...
Jaylen Brown might want out? Jazz into J-Rich? Dissecting trade rumbles and strategies with Adam Kaufman
February 02, 2022 03:29 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBWith the 2022 NBA trade deadline less than two weeks away, Silly Season -- that time of year you can't trust a trade rumor further than you can throw it -- has arrived. And with it, new reports that Jaylen Brown might want out of the Boston Celtics if things don't improve with the team moving forward, plus whispers the Utah Jazz (headed by former Celtics president Danny Ainge) might have eyes for Josh Richardson on the trade market. How much stock should we put in such rumors? Does it matte...
Talking the NBA's 75th anniversary team, the 2022 All-Star Game and Timelord's potential with Robert Parish
January 26, 2022 19:57 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBIn this extra-special edition of the Celtics Lab, we got to sit down with Boston Celtics Hall of Fame big man Robert Parish. In it, we talk the NBA's 75th-anniversary team, the 2022 All-Star Game, the growing potential of Robert Williams III and more. Be sure to check out this exclusive interview with a Celtics legend on the league today. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/celtics-lab-nba-basketball-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...
Taking the Temperature of Boston Celtics Trade Intel with Jared Weiss
January 26, 2022 00:38 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThe 2022 NBA trade season is off and running at a full gallop with the Boston Celtics having been among the first teams in the league to make a deal, with the buzz surrounding the team suggesting that the Celtics remain among the league's most active teams on the phones calling about potential deals ahead of the Feb. 10 limit to making trades this season. With plenty to cover about rumbles tied to veteran Boston players like Marcus Smart and Al Horford as much as more recent arrivals in Den...
Boston's hitting singles, dodging tax ahead of the trade deadline
January 19, 2022 17:04 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBThe Boston Celtics are making moves on the margins already seemingly with an eye to getting under the tax line for the 2021-22 NBA season -- how will the franchise finish out the rest of its roster-building moves given what we have seen from President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens so far? The latest episode of the CLNS Media podcast "Celtics Lab" was recorded before the deal that sent Juancho Hernangomez to the San Antonio Spurs to bring back Bol Bol and PJ Dozier, but the analysis ...
Boston's 2022 trade deadline intelligence special edition with Michael Scotto
January 17, 2022 23:38 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBWith a little more than three weeks to go to the 2022 NBA trade deadline, fans of the Boston Celtics are scouring the internet for any signs of what their favorite team might be up to in an effort to improve its fortunes in this and future seasons at the same time NBA reporters try to pry some juicy secrets about what might be going down in the league's front offices to the same end. And for that reason, we brought on HoopsHype's Michael Scotto to give us some details on what he has been he...
What CAN Boston do to get better at the 2022 NBA trade deadline, anyway?
January 13, 2022 00:30 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBThe Boston Celtics are already percolating in the rumor mill when it comes to the NBA's 2021-22 trade season with the Feb. 10 deadline still more than a month away. Will the team make a major move? If so, what should they be looking for? And if not, what makes sense out of the range of directions the team could go in while pursuing deals of the non-blockbuster variety? Of equal importance is what the team can NOT do, as well as other limitations and concerns which may be shaping the team's ...
Diagnosing the cure for what ails the Boston Celtics with Tim Bontemps
January 06, 2022 23:13 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThe Boston Celtics have plenty of things to work on in 2022, and there are no shortages of theories out there on the internet regarding what they ought to be doing about them. From issues closing out games and maintaining focus throughout them to shooting and passing compounded by sub-optimal roster constructions and the awkward rotations which arise from them. Trading for new players is clearly one of the primary tools available to the Celtics, but there are things that could change from w...
Finding some resolve for a struggling Boston squad with the new year
December 30, 2021 02:34 - 56 minutes - 52 MBWith January and a new year just around the corner, attention for most of us tends to turn to the things we have had trouble with in the previous year, and what we can do in the coming one to avoid the mistakes of the past that have kept us from being our best selves. And the Boston Celtics certainly are no exception whether you are talking about them as a group of individual players who have a lot of things to improve on, or as a team that is far from the coherent, competitive squad they (...
Celtics Lab 81: Finding some resolve for a struggling Boston squad with the new year
December 30, 2021 02:34 - 56 minutes - 52 MBWith January and a new year just around the corner, attention for most of us tends to turn to the things we have had trouble with in the previous year, and what we can do in the coming one to avoid the mistakes of the past that have kept us from being our best selves. And the Boston Celtics certainly are no exception whether you are talking about them as a group of individual players who have a lot of things to improve on, or as a team that is far from the coherent, competitive squad they (...
A Boston Celtics Festivus for the rest of us to get some gripes off of our chests
December 24, 2021 01:11 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBThe Boston Celtics are seemingly stuck at around .500 midway through yet another season that was supposed to be the campaign that saw them finally ascend to contender status while a large part of the roster (and for that matter, the NBA) is in the league's health and safety protocol after testing positive for COVID-19 despite the majority of the team being vaccinated. Between all this, the political zoo appearing on our televisions and cell phones on a daily basis, and a host of other disap...
Sorting out the Boston Celtics' future with Rohan Nadkarni
December 15, 2021 18:50 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWith a brutally tough schedule, early-season injuries and new additions to the Boston Celtics' roster and coaching staff making an evaluation of the team an uphill battle, the franchise will soon have to make tough decisions about the direction of the team in the short term that could have reverberations across a much longer-term context. Is this team good enough now to make a deep postseason run? Does it need minor changes to inch towards contention? A major tear down? A complete overhaul?...
On activism, Freedom, and Enes with Dave Zirin
December 09, 2021 18:40 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThe Boston Celtics center once known as Enes Kanter is back with a new identity as a US citizen and human rights activist with an updated name to reflect this new iteration, Enes Kanter Freedom. He has been using his platform as an NBA player to draw attention to a number of important causes. But as many have learned parachuting into a struggle they are not part of personally and thus do not have the same stakes nor familiarity with the details, Freedom is finding his efforts are not always...
From Philly to the West Coast and back - talking Boston's brutal December with Anna Horford
December 01, 2021 17:43 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBThe Boston Celtics face by far their toughest stretch of games starting tonight with the Philadelphia 76ers, soon after which the team heads out for its annual West Coast swing, returning to cap off the most challenging portion of its 2021-22 schedule with another tilt against the Sixers on their home court. Over those 10 games, the team faces all but one of the league's like title contenders, and precisely zero teams with a losing record. With the team playing mostly winning basketball of ...
A veritable feast of tough opponents awaits the Celtics for the holidays
November 24, 2021 02:11 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThanksgiving day is nearly here, and along with it, a sharp uptick in the difficulty of the Boston Celtics' 2021-22 schedule. Over the course of the Celtics' next dozen games, only two teams currently possess a record below .500 at the time of this writing Tuesday evening, with the majority of the league's realistic title contenders on the docket for at least one game in that stretch. The Celtics run the gauntlet starting Wednesday against the early favorites to come out of the East in the ...
Celtics mystique, Showtime Lakers, frustrating starts with Anthony Irwin
November 17, 2021 18:08 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBThe rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers is one of the oldest and most celebrated in all of sport, and for good reason. Somehow, nearly seven decades into the heated competition for dominance in greatness between the two storied franchise, the tally remains at a tie after the Lakers' most recent title, with each club now at 17 titles each. This Friday, Nov. 19, the two teams will meet again on the Celtics' home court of TD Garden, but this time around the two teams ...