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WATCH: Breaking down the 2021-22 Boston Celtics schedule

All the most critical information you need about the coming Celtics season.

The full schedule for the NBA’s looming 2021-22 season has been released, and with the Boston Celtics schedule of games as well. What do we need to know about who the storied franchise will face off with, when, and what other aspects of the league calendar need to be taken into consideration?

With critical dates and deadlines sprinkled in between the dates of games, and the All-Star Week, road trips, and back-to-back games shaping how the coming campaign may play out, you really need to go over the slate of games with a careful eye to understand what is in store for Boston next season.

Two of the Celtics’ team reporters got together and produced a video to help get us up to speed with all the most important information about the coming season for the team, with key dates, road trips, and other aspects of importance taken into account.

Watch the video embedded above to get your bearings on the season to come — with September just around the corner, training camp will get here sooner than you think!

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With full 2021-22 schedule out, what are the Boston Celtics’ biggest games?

There are going to be plenty of high-profile games with 22 nationally televised tilts.

The NBA has officially released the full league schedule for the 2021-22 NBA season, and that of course includes the Boston Celtics, with 22 nationally televised games and 11 more tilts available via NBA TV.

With the Celtics making some serious moves to improve their team in the 2021 offseason so far, it is looking like less of a bridge year than some had assumed. But will they edge closer to contention with the roster that they have? And more importantly, what are the games that ought to be the team’s more important tests of the season? Kicking off on October 20 and continuing on to April 10, the league schedule has mostly returned to a normal range.

What are the high points for the Celtics in their 2021-22 schedule?

Boston Celtics voted team with most surprising move of the offseason by NBA exec, scout panel

And with such an active summer to date, there was no shortage of transactions to consider.

The Boston Celtics have been designated as the team that made the most surprising move of the offseason according to a panel of 10 NBA scouts and executives polled by ESPN in a new article by Tim Bontemps. Astute readers have likely already gleaned this is because of the absurd value the storied franchise managed to get by landing veteran point guard Dennis Schroder on a mini-mid level exception deal that impacts their cap space to the tune of $5.9 million in 2021-22.

“Two months ago, you wouldn’t have believed that would be the deal he would wind up with after what he turned down,” Bontemps reports an anonymous East executive as having said on the deal.

The only other transaction receiving multiple votes was the buyout of former Celtics point guard Kemba Walker to facilitate his move to the New York Knicks. That received two votes; the Schroder move received three.

Other moves of note receiving votes were the Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks’ offseasons, Patty Mills signing with the Brooklyn Nets, Russell Westbrook with the Los Angeles Lakers and Chris Paul returning to the Phoenix Suns. Each garnered a single vote.

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Celtics president Brad Stevens talks on Boston’s eventful offseason, expectations for 2021-22

The new team president opened a window into the team’s offseason thinking, and plans for the future.

Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens held a meeting with the press on Thursday morning to talk about a number of issues regarding the team’s active offseason and summer league participation.

Having made a number of high-profile moves such as the trade of Kemba Walker to the Oklahoma City Thunder to the signing of floor general Dennis Schroder and the creation of a trade exception for departing shooting guard Evan Fournier, the former Celtics head coach had plenty to talk about with the media, which he seemed excited to do, starting with his expectations.

“We want to be a good team,” he suggested.  “I think that we’ve been fortunate to add some guys that can really play. I think that that’s a positive, and I think that we’re in a good position from the big picture standpoint.”

Boston Celtics to play New York Knicks to start 2021-22 season, Milwaukee Bucks on Christmas Day

While the rest of the schedule remains to be released, we now know how it will start for Boston – and who they’ll be playing on Christmas Day.

The Boston Celtics have a date to face off with their former starting point guard Kemba Walker and veteran shooting guard Evan Fournier on their new team as the Celtics find themselves slated to take on the New York Knicks on the opening night of the 2021-22 NBA season.

WIth the league announcing their opening night and Christmas Day game schedule today, so came news of the matchup with the Celtics Atlantic Division rivals to kick off the coming season with some potential for a revenge game for Walker, who is a native of New York. With both he and Fournier ending up Knicks this offseason, the pairing makes sense, and should be a good gauge of both teams early in the season.

The tilt will air on ESPN, and will take place on New York’s home court of Madison Square Garden at 7:30 pm ET.

WATCH: Where do the Boston Celtics rank in the Eastern Conference in 2021-22?

After a busy offseason for Boston and their East rivals both, what can we expect from the Celtics in terms of record by the end of the season?

The Boston Celtics made some significant moves this offseason, transforming the team in ways that may well prove critical to their title hopes down the line. But to do so, have they taken a step backward in the NBA’s Eastern Conference arms race?

Even if you think the team itself got a little bit better this offseason, the case can be made that their peers in the East did as well, and some of them considerably so. With all of the movement in a fairly busy offseason now mostly settled, where should we expect the Celtics to end up in the East by the end of the 2021-22 season?

Host of the CLNS Media podcast “Celtics Beat” Adam Kaufman and Boston legend Cedric Maxwell spend some time in a recent podcast discussing exactly this issue. And while they aren’t going full green teamer in their assessment, they might surprise you with their takes.

Watch the video embedded above to get a feel for where at least some prominent Celtics minds are ranking Boston in the East for the season soon to arrive.

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WATCH: Will the Boston Celtics be better than they were in 2020-21?

By all accounts, the Boston Celtics had a solid offseason — but will it produce better results?

The Boston Celtics are rightfully getting a fair amount of praise for how new team president Brad Stevens and the rest of the front office transformed the team’s roster in a hurry this offseason.

But even with the franchise getting off of point guard Kemba Walker‘s pricy contract, shrewd trades, and finding value on the free agency market with point guard Dennis Schroder for a fraction of the cost, will it be enough to make the team better than its last campaign? After a letdown of a season in terms of how the Celtics performed while beset with COVID, injuries, and more, Boston hopes to right the ship.

Were these moves enough to start the process in 2021-22?

Host of the CLNS Media podcast Celtics Beat is joined by Boston basketball icon and broadcaster Cedric Maxwell as the two talk the Celtics’ offseason moves, and where it ought to land the team relative to last season and their peers around the league.

Watch the clip embedded above to get up to speed on their assessment of Boston’s offseason changes, as well as the team’s internal fit and the potential for more moves sometime this season.

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The Athletic’s John Hollinger is a fan of the Boston Celtics’ offseason so far

It was off to a great start even before the Schroder signing in his opinion.

It’s amazing what a little patience combined with some luck can do to shift perceptions, or at least that seems to be the case after the Boston Celtics waited out the market only to fall into a bargain deal with point guard Dennis Schroder.

But despite some vocal grumbles from the fanbase that have since calmed or even turned to praise, that is not the only thing that the Celtics managed this offseason, freeing up their books for major moves in the future without sacrificing too much competitiveness in the present. That’s no easy task, and has won the praise of a number of notable analysts, including The Athletic’s John Hollinger — and mostly for what came before the German Rondo signing.

“Everyone is focused on the Dennis Schröder contract (a bargain at one year for $5.9 million), and that was indeed a nice windfall for the Celtics,” writes Hollinger.

Boston Celtics have five players ranked in The Athletic’s top-125 player tier rankings

Boston has solid representation in the overall range of players, but are some underrated?

The Athletic’s Seth Partnow has released his second annual NBA player tiers assessment, with five current Boston Celtics ranked among the league’s 125 best players, stacked in tiers of what Partnow describes as “an expression of which skills, traits, and combinations one has identified as most important in playoff basketball.”

The Athletic analyst does take into account things outside of the control of players like COVID and similar, non-viral factors which might have distorted a player’s value, but ultimately places a premium on which players — and their capabilities — can help a team hang banners at the end of next season.

Let’s take a look at his assessment of the Celtics relative to their peers around their league — and last season.

Who is still under contract for the Boston Celtics, and for how much?

Ahead of the 2021 draft and free agency to follow, which players are still under contract with the Boston Celtics?

With the 2021 NBA draft days away and the summer free agency to begin soon after, fans of the Boston Celtics can’t help thinking of what new faces may end up on their favorite team come opening night on Oct. 19.

But who are the players under contract now, ahead of the potential tumult, trades, and waived contracts? The holdovers from 2020-21 season and the two new additions who joined them when the Celtics dealt veteran point guard Kemba Walker to the Oklahoma City Thunder number 13 players under contract, including 11 fully guaranteed.

Let’s take a look at who is still taking up Boston’s cap space, and how much.