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Celtics Lab 69: Prognosticating Boston’s 2021-22 season with Chris Forsberg

Join us as we team up with Chris Forsberg of NBC Sports Boston to try and divine what sort of team the 2021-22 Boston Celtics will be.

The Boston Celtics have played their first game of their 2021-22 preseason slate, giving fans around the world their annual first taste of mostly meaningless games to over-react to. And far be it from us at the “Celtics Lab” podcast to miss out on such cherished annual festivities.

To that end, we brought on a special guest, Chris Forsberg of NBC Sports Boston, to try to predict what sort of a team we’re going to see in the 2021-22 season based on lineups and rotations we may see little or even none of during the regular season. We also try our best to prognosticate the season from standings at the end of the season, hardware, and more.

In the podcast’s 69th episode (nice!) as the Celtics Lab, we dive as deep as ever with Chris into everything Celtics basketball with a dash of Red Sox aversion and even some hair care tips.

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Check it out in the podcast embedded above while we wait for the team’s next preseason tilt with the Toronto Raptors this Saturday, October 9.

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WATCH: What is the Boston Celtics ceiling this season?

After one preseason game, do we feel differently about how this team could do by season’s end?

The Boston Celtics have their first game of their 2021-22 NBA preseason on the books, and if we are not over-reacting to preseason games, what are we even watching them for?

Jokes aside, can we actually glean anything from seeing this group in action for the first time regarding what their absolute ceiling might be? On one hand, they were sloppy and disjointed at times on both ends against a team projected to be among the worst in the league, but on the other, their depth was almost impressive as their collective buy-in.

Is this at best a fourth seed come season’s end? Or could they push even higher in the standings when considering some of the turmoil afflicting teams expected to be at the top of the East?

Watch the video embedded above to see what the folks over at the ESPN show “The Jump,” with Cassidy Hubbarth, Ramona Shelburne and Celtics alumnus Kendrick Perkins have to say about Boston’s ceiling in 2021-22 after seeing their first preseason contest.

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WATCH: What takeaways have we gleaned from the Boston Celtics training camp so far?

Now fully underway, we’ve learned a bit about this season’s Celtics.

The training camp for the Boston Celtics‘ 2021-22 NBA season is now fully underway and its preseason exhibition games kick off Monday, Oct. 4. The feedback they will provide will help form the regular season’s rotations.

So what can we say we have learned from the limited access the press has had and the responses of the players and head coach Ime Udoka in media availability sessions? We know more about how Jaylen Brown feels about fellow All-Star Jayson Tatum, what might be in store for Al Horford in terms of starting and a fair amount more.

Watch the video embedded below to hear what the hosts of the CLNS Media podcast “Winning Plays” have to say on all this and then some as Brian Robb and Rich Levine talk the Celtics training camp so far.

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All 10 games of the Boston Celtics 2021-22 October schedule (including preseason!)

Make your viewing plans for the official kick-off month of Boston’s 2021-22 season.

With the annual unofficial kick-off of each Boston Celtics NBA season having come and gone in the form of Media Day, it is only a matter of time before the training camp roster takes to the hardwood for preseason games, and just a few weeks after that for the games that count in earnest to begin as the 2021-22 season gets underway.

And this year, the Celtics have a total of 10 contests in the month of October, including six regular-season games that begin on October 20. The preseason schedule kicks off more than two weeks earlier, starting at Boston’s home arena of TD Garden next Monday, October 3.

Beginning with that exhibition contest, let’s take a look at October’s slate of games.

WATCH: Boston Celtics first training camp practice of the 2021-22 NBA season

Check out the first official practice of the 2021-22 Celtics in this clip.

With the Boston Celtics having put their Media Day behind them for the 2021-22 NBA season ahead, the team kicked off their first official practice with training camp beginning in earnest and new head coach Ime Udoka on the sidelines after spending the previous 10 days isolating after a fairly asymptomatic case of COVID-19.

The full training camp roster announced earlier in the day present at the team’s training facility, the media was present to see both new and veteran Celtics getting up shots and playing together for the first time for this campaign. While it is far too early to pass judgment on what sort of team this is going to be under Udoka, one could almost feel the excitement for the season to come, a sampling of which was captured on video by the folks over at CLNS Media.

Watch the video embedded below to see the Celtics’ first practice of the season in parts we wait for their first preseason game to kick off this next Monday, Oct. 4.

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Boston Celtics reportedly among several teams with COVID-19 vaccine holdouts

Even after bearing the worst of the NBA’s COVID-19 impact, the Celtics are not without their own vaccine holdouts per this report.

One might think after all the things NBA players have been through in the last 18 months with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic, they might be not only open to getting vaccinated against the virus behind all of their woes but perhaps even enthusiastic about it.

After playing in a bubble after a long hiatus and then starting the next season up after a historically short offseason with long periods away from friends and family in the midst of some truly harrowing times, it’d be disingenuous to say NBA players and the team organizations that support them have not sacrificed much because of the pandemic.

But much like society more generally, there have been holdouts. And unlike society more generally, these holdouts have far-reaching platforms and large followings of fans their opinions and deeds may influence. Some vaccine-reluctant players even hold positions of power in the league’s player’s union.

In the 2021-22 NBA hierarchy, where should we rank the Boston Celtics?

Which teams are Boston’s relative peers going into next season, and what should be the bar they aspire to surpass?

By now, most fans of the Boston Celtics and analysts agree that the team is not quite ready to contend for a title, and may not even be ready to get quite as far in the postseason as it had while All-Star forwards Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were still in their first few seasons in the league.

But where are the Celtics with respect to the rest of the NBA for the 2021-22 season, and what should our expectations of what qualifies as a “good” season for this retooling franchise already strapped with a pair of stars and a stronger bench under first-year head coach Ime Udoka?

Bleacher Report’s Mo Dakhil recently wrote an article dividing the NBA into tiers based on where in their respective competitive lifecycle each team was at, and views Boston as among teams which have arrived at their “time to bounce back.”

Celtics Lab 67: Camp deals, player rankings and access for the differently-abled

On this Lab, we talk improving access to sports with the Beautiful Life Project’s Bryce Weiler, training camp deals and more.

Less than a week away from training camp, we find ourselves about as anxious for Boston Celtics basketball as we have been since the pandemic hiatus, chasing after whispers of potential star trade target disgruntlement and arguing over meaningless player rankings. But for many, visiting an NBA arena or even watching a game on television is a luxury beyond the usual reach.

A significant number of Celtics (and sports more generally) fans are disabled in ways that make enjoying and participating in sport a serious or even insuperable challenge without the help of teams and their arenas to accommodate those people. The Celtics are among a group of professional sports organizations who have made the choice to do something about this, working with the Beautiful Lives project to make sports and sporting events as accessible as possible for their fans.

In this episode of the Celtics Lab podcast, we got together with that organization’s co-founder, Bryce Weiler, to talk about what Boston and other teams are doing to such an end.

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Of course, we also quibble about player rankings and opposing general managers irking their star players as you might expect — but for this episode, we are proud to help spread the word of the great work Bryce and company have been up to.

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Could the Boston Celtics have more moves to make before the 2021-22 season starts?

According to some sources, it’s a possibility.

Could the Boston Celtics have more moves coming in what has already been one of the busiest offseasons in the league? Reading the proverbial tea leaves hinted that might be the case given at least some of the Celtics’ camp invitees are not two way deal eligible, a possibility buttressed by the reporting of Celtics Blog’s Keith Smith on Friday.

Smith reported that ” Boston’s recent camp invites, Ryan Arcidiacono and Garrison Mathews, have a real shot at making the Celtics final 15-man roster” and one of his sources went as far as to say that it is “not a lock that the roster is done either,” noting [team president] “Brad [Stevens] is still doing some tinkering.” Smith further notes that forward Jabari Parker’s roster spot “might be in danger.”

With only a $100,000 guarantee on his current deal up to the first game of the 2021-22 NBA season, he is the logical player to be cut should one of the other prospects invited to Boston’s camp earn the position.

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WATCH: What should we expect from the Boston Celtics next season?

What are reasonable expectations for this iteration of the Celtics?

What should the Boston Celtics expect from their roster in training camp and the coming season after shaking up the team considerably in the 2021 NBA offseason? Is this team a contender? A pretender? Could they be in danger of not making the postseason? And who on their now full, 20-man offseason roster will still be there when the regular season begins?

There are a number of unanswered questions becoming more relevant by the second as the Celtics edge closer to the start of the 2021-22 season in October. With training camp kicking off in a week and media day taking place Monday, it’s time to start getting answers to such questions.

Watch the video embedded below to hear how Kwani A. Lunis and A. Sherrod Blakely — hosts of the CLNS Media “A-List” podcast — have to say about what we ought to expect from the Celtics next season.

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