Tag: 2021-22 NBA Season

Trio of Boston Celtics included in new NBA clip of 2021-22’s best handles

Some critics might be surprised to see one of the three in the video given gripes about his postseason play.

The Boston Celtics have some players on their roster with pretty good handles, good enough to get three of their stars featured in a new video released by the NBA highlighting the best examples of elite basketball control in the recent 2021-22 season.

And you might be surprised by the inclusion of one of the trio of Celtics players given all the flack he got from fans for his loose handle in the postseason, Jaylen Brown. Alongside Boston’s Marcus Smart and Jayson Tatum, the Georgia native is featured prominently in the clip showing off the best handles in action from last season.

To see a little NBA action featuring the best of Boston dribbling the ball among other elite handlers, check out the clip embedded below while we wait for the return of preseason later this fall.

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The best Boston Celtics dunks of the 2021-22 NBA season

Boston players have sent opponents to entirely new dimensions with their dunks last season, and these are the very best of those posterizations.

The Boston Celtics’ 2021-22 season is long behind us in the rearview mirror, but the dunks, flushes, and brutal posterizations unleashed by various Celtics players over the course of that season have, as dunks often do, taken on a life of their own that transcends the moment (and season) they occurred in.

Boston players have sent opponents to entirely new dimensions with their dunking prowess, creating those flashbulb moments that spawned the term ‘business decision’ for those without the heart to try and contest what is all but guaranteed to outlive the effort made to stop the flush in question.

And to commemorate a season full of such nasty, rim-rattling dunks by the Celtics as described above, fan videographer Tomasz Kordylewski assembled a full-season highlight reel of the best posterizations of the 2021-22 season by Boston’s players.

Watch the clip embedded above to see the best dunks of last season while we wait for the next to arrive in October.

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Top plays in 2021-22 by the top Ja(y)lens in the NBA, according to ESPN’s Jalen Rose

Jaylen Brown, of course, makes an appearance.

When the annual arrival of the NBA’s summer doldrums finally drops, NBA analysts tend to turn to the tried and true source of content for when the annual news cycle slows to a crawl — making lists of things. And here at the Celtics Wire, we appreciate a little creativity with the philosophy behind a list, even if it is an exceptionally simple (and slightly silly) one.

So it caught our attention that ESPN host Jalen Rose put together one such list of his favorite plays from the 2021-22 season, with one catch: the list is restricted to players who also happen to be named a variation of “Jalen”.

Boston Celtics star forward Jaylen Brown of course makes an appearance; watch the clip embedded below to see where Brown stacks up against the likes of Jalen Suggs and Jalen Brunson — at least in Rose’s opinion.

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Best of recently-extended Boston Celtics forward Sam Hauser’s play in 2021-22

See why Boston invested in the Virginia product in this video.

Rookie Boston Celtics forward Sam Hauser might have gone unselected in the 2021 NBA draft, but the Celtics saw the sharpshooter within him and signed the University of Virginia product to a two way deal to get the Green Bay, Wisconsin native into their system and get him some burn with the Maine Celtics, their Portland-based G League affiliate.

Hauser put in the work, and when it was clear his offensive game would translate to the NBA, Boston inked him to a regular deal soon after. Now, after showing some real growth as a player, Boston inked him to a new three-year deal this offseason and believes that Hauser can earn some floor time on the wing this coming season.

If you are not too familiar with the sparsely-played forward’s game, or just want to gloat on how the Celtics managed to find a 42% 3-point shot with size, check out the clip embedded below, courtesy of YouTuber Tomasz Kordylewski.

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New Boston Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari 2021-22 highlights with Atlanta Hawks

Get to know the Italian veterans game better with this video.

Given he is by no means a new addition to the NBA, new Boston Celtics forward (and former Atlanta Hawk) Danilo Gallinari is not exactly a mystery box for many fans of his new team. But for those of us who perhaps have not followed the Italian swingman’s career around the league over the years, getting an idea of what to expect from him on Boston’s roster may be hazier than some might prefer.

A knockdown shooter with plenty of size at 6-foot-10, Gallinari’s biggest knocks are his age-related defensive shortcomings, but the Celtics are very much the sort of team with the personnel to amplify his strengths while hiding his weaknesses.

Expect Boston’s latest trade focus to play mostly at the 4 for the team in 2022-23, and watch the video embedded below to get an idea of how he might fit into the Celtics’ rotations in the coming campaign courtesy of YouTuber Tomasz Kordylewski.

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Jayson Tatum’s father Justin doubted whether the Celtics might make the playoffs early in the 2021-22 NBA season

Needless to say, he’s excited as the rest of us about where they are now.

If you were among the fans of the Boston Celtics who did not see them making it to the NBA Finals while the team slogged through the first half of the 2021-22 season as a .500 ball club, don’t be too hard on yourself — you were far from alone. In fact, even All-NBA Celtics forward Jayson Tatum‘s father Justin wasn’t sure they’d make the postseason, never mind the 2022 Finals.

Speaking with Bally Sports’ Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson recently, the elder Tatum said “I didn’t think they were going to make the playoffs at the beginning of the season. Y’all are bad, y’all don’t share the ball, you don’t do a lot of this — and this was in November, December before they went on that run.”

“Who are we going to trade,” he asked rhetorically, transporting himself back in his mind to that frustrating moment for Celtics fans everywhere. “Who are we going to let go? We’ve got to figure out something.”

“Now, to see them beating the Brooklyn Nets, going through (the) Milwaukee (Bucks), the NBA Champions from last year, and then finishing off Jimmy Butler (of the Miami Heat), I did not expect it,” he continued.

“That’s what professionals are. The old guys on that team showed what professionals are supposed to be like. That’s what your job is. You’ve got to find a way not to be an inconsistent team, to be a winning team.”

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Celtics Lab 116: The Heat beaten, a look back on the path to the finals ahead of a Warriors showdown

This episode, we take stock of how Boston put themselves in a position to compete for Banner 18.

Even though it very much looked like it might not have happened in the waning seconds of the Boston Celtics‘ Game 7 win over the Miami Heat in the 2022 Eastern Conference semifinals as Jimmy Butler’s last-second 3-pointer followed its arc on the way to the front of the rim, the Celtics are in fact headed to the 2022 NBA Finals starting next Thursday.

Their first trip back there since 2010 and the first trip ever for every member of the current team’s roster, it felt right to take a last look back at the series with the Heat, Jayson Tatum‘s new (literally) hardware, and the season more generally before getting our minds ready for the fight for Banner 18 against the Golden State Warriors.

On this episode of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, we take stock of the team’s path to the finals and even take a peek at the series ahead of a full preview later this week.

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Join your usual hosts of Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn as we pay tribute to the journey Boston has completed so far while getting ready for the final, hardest steps ahead.

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NBA announces Celtics’ Marcus Smart has won the 2021-22 Hustle award

It is his second time being so honored.

The NBA announced today that veteran Boston Celtics point guard Marcus Smart has been awarded the league’s 2021-22 NBA Hustle award, becoming the first repeat winner of the award in its history, having previously been so honored in the 2018-19 season.

A relatively recent piece of the league’s pantheon of hardware, the award, “which honors the player that makes the energy and effort plays to help his team win throughout the season” according to the league, was created in the 2016-17 season. Other such honorees include last season’s Thad Young (then with the Chicago Bulls), Montrezl Harrell in 2019-20 (with the Los Angeles Clippers then), then-Philadelphia 76ers big man Amir Johnson in 2017-18, and the inaugural winner, Patrick Beverly while he was with the Houston Rockets.

The Flower Mound native can add the honor to his 2022 NBA Kia Defensive Player of the Year award and his 2021-22 All-Defensive First Team honors for this campaign.

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Brad Stevens comes in sixth overall in 2022 NBA Executive of the Year voting

Not too shabby for his first season on the job.

The NBA revealed the voting results for its annual 2021-22 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year award on Thursday, and Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens came in sixth in the voting.

This year’s award was won by Zach Kleiman of the Memphis Grizzlies (85 total points), with Koby Altman of the Cleveland Cavaliers (27 total points), Arturas Karnisovas of the Chicago Bulls (27 total points), James Jones of the Phoenix Suns (26 total points), and Pat Riley (26 total points) of the Miami Heat coming in ahead of the Celtics president in that order.

Unlike most such end-of-the-year hardware that is voted on by panels of select national media members and NBA broadcasters, this particular league award is voted on by league executives themselves.

While certainly lower than Celtics fans would have liked, it is an auspicious start for a team president in his first season in the role.

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How Ime Udoka changed the Boston Celtics’ culture

This was, unbelievably, the same team people were suggesting that should split up Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.

At the start of the 2021-22 NBA season, it looked like more of the same from a mediocre Boston Celtics team underachieving in yet another season for reasons that were hard to put one’s finger on given how much talent and experience was on the roster and the shake-up in the offseason that saw a number of lesser players sent packing and a supposed upgrade at head coach in Ime Udoka.

But said new head coach did not lose faith in the style of play and messaging he had for the Celtics that he promised he would bring to bear on the team at the start of his tenure, which saw Boston transform into the best team in the league in the second half of the season.

How did Udoka change the culture of the team to create such a monster out of players who were largely the same as the team the Celtics had to start the season?

The hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Beat” podcast recently dove into this very question, with hosts Evan Valenti and Adam Kaufman joining the Boston Herald’s Mark Murphy to talk it over — check it out!

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