Tag: 2021-22 NBA Season

NBA’s top 100 dunks of 2022 highlight video features the Boston Celtics

The fun specifically for fans of the Celtics kicks off in a tilt against fellow Eastern Conference title contenders, the Milwaukee Bucks, with one of the Most Valuable Player candidates making a statement above the rim.

With hyperathletic superstars on their roster like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and rim-rattling big men like Robert Williams III a part of the ball club, the frequency of posterizations at the hands of the Boston Celtics is high compared to many teams around the NBA.

So it probably should not surprise fans of the team to see their favorite ball club well represented in a new highlight reel put together by the Association taking a look back to pay homage to the 100 very best dunks of the 2022 calendar year that was recently released on the NBA’s official YouTube channel.

The fun specifically for fans of the Celtics kicks off in a tilt against fellow Eastern Conference title contenders, the Milwaukee Bucks, with one of the Most Valuable Player candidates making a statement above the rim.

Take a look for yourself at the clip embedded above to see all the best dunks from Boston and the rest of the league that took place in 2022.

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NBA’s best plays of 2022 highlight video features the Boston Celtics

One of the bigger on-court developments for the Celtics was the growth of Boston’s star wings in terms of their playmaking ability, coupled with the addition of former Indiana Pacers floor general Malcolm Brogdon.

The 2022 NBA calendar year was an intense one for the Boston Celtics, who had a roller coaster of a season that spanned the gamut of disasters and successes on and off of the court.

From the proverbial treadmill of mediocrity to the 2022 NBA Finals, with road bumps in terms of leadership and a roster in flux, there were plenty of things going on to keep fans of the ball club busy.

One of the bigger on-court developments for the Celtics was the growth of Boston’s star wings in terms of their playmaking ability, coupled with the addition of former Indiana Pacers floor general Malcolm Brogdon to the team in the 2022 offseason.

This all blossomed into some seriously elite playmaking as veteran point guard Marcus Smart expanded his game as a distributor as well, creating the synergy to make Boston into one of the top teams in the NBA last year.

Take a look at this highlight clip of the best plays in the league from 2022 put together by the NBA’s YouTube channel, which of course features the Celtics for the reasons highlighted above — and a few that were not.

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Boston Celtics featured in NBA’s best games of 2022 compilation

The league has recently put together a compendium of all the best games that took place in the 2022 Calendar year.

The 2022 calendar year was an absolutely wild ride for the Boston Celtics in terms of off-court issues. These issues ranged from trade rumors sparked by Brooklyn Nets star forward Kevin Durant’s ask out to currently suspended Celtics head coach Ime Udoka’s misconduct and the fallout it subsequently caused.

There were setbacks from recoveries, as we saw with starting center Robert Williams III, and players getting severely injured, as we saw with vet forward Danilo Gallinari and his ACL tear in FIBA World Cup qualifier play. And we haven’t even touched on what happened for Boston on the court.

Thankfully, we have the NBA for that. The league recently put together a compendium of the best games from the 2022 calendar year.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to see what the Association has assembled to such an end courtesy of their YouTube Channel, kicked off by your favorite basketball team.

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What should be the Boston Celtics’ biggest regret of the 2022 calendar year?

For one analyst, it can’t be other than 2022 NBA FInals-related.

What should be the Boston Celtics’ biggest regret of the 2022 calendar year? According to a recent article by Bleacher Report’s Dan Favale, it is the ball club’s turnovers and poor defensive rebounding in the 2022 NBA Finals. Per Favale, those costly errors might have been the difference between heartbreak and hanging a banner for the team.

“The Celtics coughed up the ball on more than 20% of their non-garbage-time possessions during Games 4 to 6 while allowing the Warriors to clean up 29-plus % of their own misses,” writes the Bleacher Report NBA analyst of Boston’s play against the Golden State Warriors last summer on the league’s biggest stage.

“Game 6, in particular, ended up being even more of a dumpster fire,” suggests Favale of the tilt that secured the title for the Dubs on the Celtics’ home court of TD Garden to add insult to injury.

“Boston committed a turnover on nearly 25% of their offensive possessions, and Golden State boarded 37.3% of their friendly misfires,” he adds.

Here at the Celtics Wire, we’re content to let the Celtics pull from whatever fuels their play moving forward most efficiently, but we suspect Favale may be right on the money regarding what it is the team most wishes they could change about last year.

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After a wild 2022, what can we expect from the Boston Celtics in 2023?

If fans of the Boston Celtics could have seen into the future in 2021 regarding just how bumpy of a ride their favorite team would be looking at in the next year, they very well might have dismissed everything that has happened as pure fiction.

If fans of the Boston Celtics could have seen into the future in 2021 regarding just how bumpy of a ride their favorite team would be looking at in the next year, they very well might have dismissed everything that has happened as pure fiction.

In the course of one calendar year, the storied ball club went from a struggling young team with an unproven head coach beset with calls to split up their star wings to a title contender losing in the finals in 6 games. But even that wasn’t all 2022 had to offer, with one of the best offseasons in the NBA nearly derailed by coach misconduct, only to see current interim coach Joe Mazzulla take the reigns as Boston came out to start 2022-23 like a house on fire.

To take a look back on a wild ride of a year as well as to try and divine what might be coming down the pike for the Celtics, NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg and Boston alum and broadcaster Eddie House linked up on a recent episode of the “Celtics Talk” podcast.

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Jayson Tatum’s top pregame fits with the Boston Celtics in 2022

Tatum might not be the most avant-garde in terms of fashion in the league, but he regularly shows up to games sporting some seriously sharp threads.

When it comes to fashion and the Boston Celtics, the team’s two star wings Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are known for their keen senses of haute couture, with the former particularly known for his pre-game arrival fits the St. Louis native rocks to the arena ahead of Celtics games.

Tatum might not be the most avant garde in terms of fashion in the league, but he regularly shows up to games sporting some seriously sharp threads. And in the 2022 calendar year, the Duke alum really turned on the flames for his pre-game fits, making a grand entrance fitting of a player with his MVP-caliber profile.

To document and commemorate Tatum’s prediliction for fashion in terms of his very best 2022 pre-game fits, take a look at the clip embedded below put together by our friends at the NBC Sports Boston YouTube channel to start of 2023 with some memories of 2022.

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Our 10 biggest Boston Celtics stories of 2022

The calendar year of 2022 has come to an end for the Boston Celtics, the NBA, and their fans. For the Celtics in particular, it has been a year of extremes both good and bad.

The calendar year of 2022 has come to an end for the Boston Celtics, the NBA, and their fans. For the Celtics in particular, it has been a year of extremes both good and bad.

From the mess of a situation the ball club was just starting to dig itself out of to the behemoth they became once they did figure things out, no one could have imagined that a trip to the 2022 NBA Finals and the heartbreak of not winning it all after all they have been through was only part of the wild ride that was the past year.

Losing Bill Russell, Paul Silas, Bill Fitch, and Togo Palazzi, the fallout of an offseason scandal, and the joy of watching the team land on their feet has been a year to remember for more reasons than we can list here.

With all that said, let’s look at the top 10 stories of 2022 on the Celtics Wire as decided by your readership. Happy New Year to you all.

Remembering Boston Celtics alumni who left us in 2022

The Celtics and the NBA community with it lost giants of the game alongside lesser-known but still important parts of the team’s and the league’s history.

The wider Boston Celtics community lost a number of notable alumni in 2022 whose tenure with the storied franchise ranges from among the earliest years of the ball club up to the start of the team’s era of title contention in the 1980s.

The Celtics and the NBA community with it lost giants of the game alongside lesser-known but still important parts of the team’s and the league’s history. It occurred at a moment in franchise history when the organization appears to be entering yet another era where hanging banners is the overt goal of the ball club to continue the proud tradition those alumni helped create.

With that in mind, let’s pay tribute to those Celtics greats who left us in 2022.

Best of Boston Celtics big man signee Blake Griffin in 2021-22

Get to know how the 12-season vet plays the game today, and how he might help the Celtics doing it.

Fans of the Boston Celtics should be forgiven if they are unfamiliar with how the newest member of their favorite team plays the game these days. The Blake Griffin of 2022 is far removed from his days as a high-flying dunker that built his reputation.

But the former Brooklyn Nets big man has excellent passing chops and the veteran skills to fit into the style of play the Celtics excel at, even if his defensive chops are exploitable in postseason play. The onetime Oklahoma star still has something to give his new team even if highlight reel dunks will not often be among them.

To get an idea of how you might see Griffin playing for Boston this season, YouTube Celtics fan videographer Tomasz Kordylewski put together a compilation of some of his best plays with the Nets in 2021-22.

Take a look at the clip embedded above if you need a refresher on how the Oklahoma City native might play for Boston this season.

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Boston Celtics make the NBA’s ‘Top 100 plays of the 2021-22 season’ video

Given the campaign very nearly ended in a banner for Boston, it probably shouldn’t surprise to see the Celtics represented here.

By virtue of being one of the last two teams standing in the 2022 NBA Playoffs in facing the Golden State Warriors in the 2022 Finals, the Boston Celtics had a hand in more than a few of the most impressive plays from the 2021-22 season.

And unlike some deep postseason runs with record-scratch moments like the time the Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo blocked star Celtics forward Jayson Tatum’s shot in the Orlando bubble, Boston was, by and large, on the right side of those plays. Some of them even managed to get included in the NBA’s “Top 100 plays of the 2021-22 NBA season” highlight clip.

So, while we wait for preseason and live basketball to return to our lives, take a look at the clip embedded below to see which of those plays came in games played by the Celtics.

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