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New HoopsHype podcast identifies the Boston Celtic most likely to be traded this season

Boston fans are fixated on who might be joining the team, but they should also consider who might be on their way out.

Just two weeks away from when players signed over the summer start to become able to be traded, most fans of the Boston Celtics are already starting to ogle the rosters of opposing teams for ideas of players the Celtics could trade for.

But it usually takes two to tango as the saying goes, meaning Boston will almost certainly be sending out a player or more in any trade they make just to make the roster limit rules work with a full 17-man team. It might behoove fans to start thinking about which Celtics players are most likely to be on the move as well.

And as a matter of fact, our sister site HoopsHype has done exactly that for them in a new podcast surveying the league for such prospective trade targets.

The Houston big man duo could be solid trade targets for the Celtics. https://t.co/GBTGcLv3cE

— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) December 2, 2021

Celtics Lab 77: From Philly to the West Coast and back – talking Boston’s brutal December with Anna Horford

If Boston survives its most brutal month, it will be downhill to the postseason in comparison.

The 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 late through the steadying play of veterans like Marcus Smart and particularly Al Horford, we at the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast felt there was no one better to talk about a brutal slate of games bookended by Philly than Anna Horford.

Your usual hosts Cameron Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg and Justin Quinn spoke with the host of the Horford Happy Hour about her brother’s role in breaking out of the team’s early slump, building better habits, and of course what we ought to expect from the team in a most challenging December.

We also break down our responses to Enes Kanter Freedom’s recent media appearances and the fraught balancing act between speaking truth to power while courting it.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 76: A veritable feast of tough opponents awaits the Celtics for the holidays

Boston’s strength of schedule is about to load up like a shopping cart on Black Friday.

Thanksgiving 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 Brooklyn Nets who still sit at the top of the conference despite the ongoing absence of Kyrie Irving, health issues afflicting several key rotation players, and an early-season struggle for James Harden. Scarier still, they’ll do it with their own roster not quite healthy either.

In this pre-Turkey Day edition of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, your usual hosts Alex Goldberg and Justin Quinn talk about what will face the team in the month to come, the looming showdown with Brooklyn, and much more while Cameron Tabatabaie takes the show off for the holiday to come soon after.

Buckle up, it’s going to be a turbulent month ahead.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 75: Celtics mystique, Showtime Lakers, frustrating starts with Anthony Irwin

The Celtics and Lakers cross paths again this Friday after both stumbled a bit out of the gate.

The 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 will not exactly be arriving at the tilt in the best of shape in terms of records, with each club struggling a bit early in the 2021-22 NBA season.

On this episode of the CLNS Media podcast “Celtics Lab,” your usual hosts of Cameron Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg, and Justin Quinn are joined by special guest Anthony Irwin of Silver Screen and Roll and the “Locked on Lakers” podcast to talk about what’s behind each club’s slow start, and what we can expect to see Friday among several other topics.

If you’re of the ilk with tribalistic hatred for all things purple and gold, this might not be the pod for you, but if you want an honest look at both clubs as they are this season, hit play on the clip embedded above.

If you’d like to support the podcast with a one-time or recurring donation, now you can on this page.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 74: Midrange theories, Celtics slumps, and Jaylen’s value with Seth Partnow

In this pod, we dive into all things analytics and Celtics with the author of “The Midrange Theory” Seth Partnow.

When it comes to using analytics to get a fresh perspective on things, there are few in the game with a better angle on that than The Athletic’s Seth Partnow. Former Head of Basketball Research for the Milwaukee Bucks and recent author of the new book “The Midrange Theory: Basketball’s Evolution in the Age of Analytics” (pre-order it here!), Partnow joined your usual hosts Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn on the most recent edition of the CLNS Media podcast “Celtics Lab” to talk about his new book and all things analytics.

Get ready to have some of your assumptions about this team, its coaching, and even some especially contentious recently rumored trade proposals challenged on one of our favorite pods in recent memory.

If you are a regular listener to the Celtics Lab, it’s clear you love the team, basketball, and quite possibly both, and we have met very few people who enjoy talking hoops more than Partnow.

Check out the clip embedded above to hear everything from what we expected out of Robert Williams III in the new Celtics offense to why some triple-doubles (we see you, Magic Johnson) are more meaningful than others.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 73: How much is shooting mucking up Boston’s season so far?

Against the Washington Wizards on October 30, the Boston Celtics flirted with a historically bad shooting night, hitting just 7.7% of their 3-pointers, making just 2 out of 26 attempts. One of their best marksmen from deep, Jayson Tatum, is shooting under 30% from 3-point range and veterans Marcus Smart and Al Horford are both having a rough shooting start as either have had in years — if not ever.

At the same time, the team isn’t playing two of their best young shooters under new head coach Ime Udoka and have only won two of their seven games. Could there be a connection? Or are the team’s woes a product of more complicated issues?

To this end, on this episode of the “Celtics Lab” podcast, we brought on Roger Galo of the Galo Shot-Making Method (and former shooting coach for Celtics alum Brad Wanamaker) to see if one of the more glaring issues affecting the team this season might be a main or major factor.

Your usual hosts Cameron Tabatabaie, Justin Quinn, and Alex Goldberg also explore what else might ail the Celtics, as well as getting caught up with some other news pertinent to the team.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 72: Talking walls, making Cornbread and NBA history with Cedric Maxwell

On this episode, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a behind-the-scenes account of a critical period in Celtics history.

It isn’t often that an NBA Finals MVP writes a book detailing a behind-the-scenes view of their career at the highest level of competition in the best basketball league in the world, but Celtics Hall of Fame forward Cedric Maxwell has done as much in his new book “If These Walls Could Talk: Boston Celtics: Stories from the Boston Celtics Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box.”

It’s rarer still when said Hall of Famer sits down with you for a personal account into that slice of NBA and Celtics history. And on this most recent episode of the Celtics Lab, hosts Cameron Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg, and Justin Quinn were thus graced for an episode you truly don’t want to miss.

Cornbread — as Maxwell is called — was the bridge between two eras of title contention in the mid-1970s and 1980s, with scores of tales to tell about the franchise’s life cycle while he helped raise Boston back to title town status with the arrival of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, and Danny Ainge in the first years of a new decade.

We also talk about some more contemporary issues ranging from the rising stars of the Jays to the confusing fit of the Los Angeles Lakers — and how in a lot of these situations history is rhyming — if not repeating itself, to perhaps paraphrase Samuel Clemens.

Check out the pod embedded above to get the inside scoop on this new book of Celtics lore — and if you haven’t already, check out the book as well.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 71: Why the NBPA is ambivalent about mandates with N. Jeremi Duru, preseason wrap-up and more

Wrapping up our offseason coverage, in this episode, we try to glean why the NBPA

Fans of the Boston Celtics hope their team avoids the COVID-19 travails of last season, and many might have been surprised to hear the two vice presidents in the NBA’s Player’s Association referring to the vaccine as a “personal choice” as controversy over local mandates churned around the league.

Why wouldn’t a union whose job it is to act in the best interests of its players, their health, and their ability to play in games automatically support vaccine mandates? At the Celtics Lab, we decided to wrap up our offseason programming looking into the dynamics of how such a situation might have come to be by talking with friend of the podcast N. Jeremi Duru, professor and published expert on professional sports unions.

He joins your usual hosts Cam Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg, and Justin Quinn as they try to understand how collective bargaining and public health work together in today’s NBA.

We of course also cover the news of the week, say goodbye to some camp invitees, and try to make sense of Boston’s waiving of Jabari Parker just hours before he was brought back and more.

Check out the audio embedded above to get your bearings on the season about to start from the arena to the union headquarters.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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Celtics Lab 70: Talking COVID-19, vaccination and the NBA with In the Bubble’s Andy Slavitt

If you want a fresh perspective on how to change minds regarding COVID-19 vaccination in the NBA or beyond, this episode is for you.

Much of the conversation ahead of the 2021-22 NBA season circulating in the NBA media has revolved around something that isn’t necessarily a basketball conversation, though it has pervaded virtually all aspects of contemporary life. We are of course talking about COVID-19 vaccination in the league, and in particular some especially vaccine-resistant players who occupy positions of considerable influence.

But rather than making the story about those individuals, the hosts of the “Celtics Lab” podcast Justin Quinn, Cam Tabatabaie, and Alex Goldberg dug deep in the hopes of re-setting the narratives a bit surrounding how we should engage those persons and the issue of vaccine hesitancy (and more pernicious anti-vaccine sentiments) in society more generally.

It can be hard for some of us in the media to see Kyrie Irving, LeBron James, and others resistant to making some choices for the common good. But, a steady stream of fan and media ire is almost certainly going to do little to change their minds on how they can best use their platforms (and bodies) to make us all safer (and teams perhaps more successful) in a pandemic.

To that end, we were incredibly lucky to have Andy Slavitt of the “In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt” podcast to talk on the intersection of public health, the NBA and society at large in an era of COVID-19. Andy has worked with the last three presidents on issues of public health, most recently serving as President Biden’s COVID-19 advisor.

We hope you find this podcast as informative and helpful in coping with and making progress on this viral scourge affecting all of our lives as we did.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire. Follow us on Facebook!

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LISTEN: Iconic Celtics announcer Johnny Most calling Boston legend Larry Bird’s debut NBA game

Hear every play from Larry Legend’s debut game in the association in this clip.

The same game on October 12, 1979 saw the debut of the 3-point shot in NBA history and the first game of iconic Boston Celtics small forward Larry Bird, among the greatest to ever play the game.

So much so that Chris Ford’s historic shot is more of an asterisk to the debut contest played by Bird that day. And while we unfortunately do not have more than some clips culled from the game in its entirety to look back on, we do have the entire audio play-by-play of legendary Celtics broadcaster Johnny Most detailing the action of both historic events happening in an otherwise unremarkable season-opening contest.

Listen to the Hick From French Lick (as Bird was sometimes called) score 14 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists in 28 minutes of play via the video embedded below, courtesy of YouTuber “Larry Legend Full Games”.

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