With the Grizzlies signing free agent Bismack Biyombo, the perfect free agent target for the Boston Celtics has been taken off the board. With every perfect plan, though, is a perfect backup plan. Enter Derrick Favors. Like Biyombo, Favors is sturdy and can fight at the rim for second opportunities and to curtail them for …
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Notable NBA writer for The Ringer’s Michael Pina thinks Kristaps Porzingis’s importance to the Boston Celtics is “more essential than originally expected.” “Porzingis poses some fascinating and perhaps more meaningful basketball questions,” Pina prefaced before saying, “Where and how often will he get his touches? Who does he fit best next to? Boston’s success hinges …
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Photo by Angela Rowlings/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images The writing seems to be on the wall. There’s a line from the modern masterpiece of a motion picture, Pixar’s Toy Story 2, that has been on my mind as of late when thinking about the Boston Red Sox’s hunt for a new head of the …
The Neemias Queta hype train has left the station following the third game of the Boston Celtics preseason slate; a 112-101 win over the Philadelphia 76ers from the Wells Fargo Center on October 11. In seven minutes of floor time, Queta went 4/4 from the field and 2/2 from the free-throw line for 10 points, …
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While painful for everyone involved, trading Robert Williams III “had” to be done by the Boston Celtics according to CelticsBlog’s Bobby Manning — who made the case that the team’s floor is higher but their ceiling is lower now that the Time Lord (plus Malcolm Brogdon and draft picks) has been turned into Jrue Holiday. …
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Sports Illustrated’s Chris Herring denied that he had reported that Boston Celtics big man Blake Griffin was on the verge of retiring on Twitter by quote tweeting a parody news aggregation and telling them “FOH” after they claimed Herring reported such news. FOH. I’m on a beach somewhere; I didn’t report that. https://t.co/F87fpnM3FF — Chris …
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Sports Illustrated’s Chris Herring denied that he had reported that Boston Celtics big man Blake Griffin was on the verge of retiring on Twitter by quote tweeting a parody news aggregation and telling them “FOH” after they claimed Herring reported such news. FOH. I’m on a beach somewhere; I didn’t report that. https://t.co/F87fpnM3FF — Chris …
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Malcolm Brogdon not ending up on the Los Angeles Clippers after the franchise was in talks to land the Boston Celtics’ reigning Sixth Man of the Year will lead to LA being a perennial postseason disappointment, as they have been, according to NESN’s Gio Rivera. “Los Angeles was so undecided about whether or not Brogdon’s …
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Danny Ainge-era big man Kelly Olynyk liked the idea of a reunion with the Boston Celtics at the 2023 trade deadline when such rumors popped up, but as the 31-year-old told Heavy’s Steve Bulpett, he isn’t looking to leave the Jazz — a franchise Ainge is now in control of — to return to the …
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Throughout the season, it has become more and more evident how vital Malcolm Brogdon is going to be to a deep Boston Celtics postseason run. No matter how injured-plagued the Celtics have been this season, Joe Mazzulla has never turned to Brogdon for a place in the starting lineup. It is a completely new role …
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With two consecutive losses to teams with size and strength in the frontcourt, it might be time for the Boston Celtics to start considering deals that would add talent to their own depleted depth chart down low to counter to bridge the gap between now and Robert Williams’ return from a knee injury. In an …
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The Boston Celtics signed Blake Griffin at the tail end of the offseason in order to add frontcourt depth to a roster that badly needed it in the wake of Robert Williams’ knee surgery, but President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens had his eyes set higher. Specifically, on the 2019-20 NBA season’s Sixth Man of …
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It’s become a nearly annual ritual for Boston Celtics fans — that is, the trick of figuring out how to fill out a proper depth chart with multiple options in the frontcourt. Back in 2019-20, after an exodus of big men like Al Horford and Aron Baynes, the Cs relied on a platoon of Daniel …
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It’s not hard to see where the Boston Celtics could lack talent-wise during the opening stretch of the 2022-23 season — most notably, in the frontcourt where Robert Williams III and Luke Kornet will be injured for the first portion of the season. We know it’ll be a while before Williams will be healthy. According …
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Back before the second Boston Celtics preseason game on October 5 against the Toronto Raptors — a game the Cs had a lead but blew late in the fourth quarter and overtime to move to 1-1 on the exhibition slate –, CelticsBlog’s Jeff Clark advocated for Noah Vonleh to make the roster ahead of the …
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The Boston Celtics, in trading center Daniel Theis, guard/forward Aaron Nesmith, forwards Malik Fitts and Juwan Morgan, guard Nik Stauskas, and a 2023 first-round draft choice for Malcolm Brogdon, overloaded a position that already served as a strength in Beantown. Boston’s guard rotation already benefitted from the presence of reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year …
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Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens has an interesting Twitter history that Hardwood Houdini was not privy to until NBC Sports Boston’s Bobby Manning pointed it out on Saturday morning. Stevens, who joined Twitter in 2009, had never liked a single tweet during his 13 years on the social media platform until Twitter …
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