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Celtics Lab 143: What we know (and what we don’t) about the Ime Udoka situation

Buckle up, it’s going to be a rough ride to start the 2022-23 Boston Celtics season.

As if having key rotation players out injured before the start of a season the Boston Celtics are expected to contend for a title wasn’t enough, a scandal now threatens to engulf the Celtics before their 2022-23 season even starts.

That unfolding scandal is, of course, Boston head coach Ime Udoka facing a potential seasonlong suspension resulting from a consensual relationship with a Celtics female staff member. With neither Udoka nor the Celtics talking on the record as the scandal blows up in real time, rampant speculation has erupted from all corners.

In an emergency pod to break down what little we know about the situation, its potential impact and the issues compounding the situation in the media and beyond, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast dived into the mess that is the current Celtics news cycle.

Join Cameron Tabatabaie, Justin Quinn and Alex Goldberg in a regrettable and unexpected pod to get up to speed on this unfolding disaster.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

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Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Celtics Lab 142: All things Boston Celtics and NBA2K with Ronnie 2K

Remember when the biggest blip on the Boston Celtics’ horizon was gripes about the newest ratings of their players in the latest NBA 2K ratings update?

Remember when the biggest blip on the Boston Celtics’ horizon was gripes about the newest ratings of their players in the latest NBA 2K ratings update? We certainly do after a day of chaos in the organization tied to a scandal surrounding Celtics head coach Ime Udoka that broke just after we finished recording this episode.

In it, we talk with NBA 2K frontman Ronnie 2K about the latest iteration of the game, the Celtics in it, how they feel about their ratings, how it’s made, and what might be coming down the pike. We even get into how Ronnie’s looming wedding and host Cameron Tabatabaie’s tweets made it into the game.

We do NOT talk about Udoka, of course, given the timing. But there’s plenty of news about Boston’s training camp prospects and other less incendiary topics to spell you from the whirlwind engulfing the Celtics at present.

Join hosts Alex Golberg, Justin Quinn, and Cameron as we talk all things 2K, and sort through all the news that seemed so much more serious 24 hours ago than it does now.

Buckle up folks, this is going to be a rough week.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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What will the order of the Eastern Conference look like in the 2022-23 NBA season?

And where can we expect Boston to be in it?

By almost any account, the Boston Celtics are at the top of the list of contenders for the 2023 NBA championship, but how will the rest of the league’s Eastern Conference standings sort out after all of the moves its teams have made to make their respective ball clubs better?

Who are the 1) contenders and 2) pretenders? Who are the 3) playoff ruffians who might make some noise but fall short of the conference finals? What teams are 4) play in tournament hopefuls at best, and which are 5) bricking their season for a shot at prized NBA draft prospects like Victor Wembanyama or Scoot Henderson?

On the most recent episode of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, the East was broken down into the five tiers referenced in the above questions; let’s take a look at what they came up with by the end of the pod.

Celtics Lab 141: Projecting the order the East and talking on the NBA’s Robert Sarver reaction with Zak Noble

In this episode, we’re joined by Zak Noble of the ‘Noble and Roosh’ podcast to project what the East might look like come April.

With training camp just around the corner at the end of September, rosters around the NBA’s Eastern Conference are starting to morph into the form they will be in at the start of the 2022-23 season. Drawing on the state of rosters at the moment, one can get a general idea of what the East’s order (and the Boston Celtics spot in it) might look like if the rosters on opening day remained the same until the end of the season.

That of course never happens. One can’t predict trades before they happen (with rare exceptions), so the folks at the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast got together with Zak Noble of Ball Is Life’s “Noble and Roosh” podcast to try to project what the East might look like come April.

We also spend some time talking through the sordid affair of Phoenix Suns Governor Robert Sarver and the reaction to the NBA’s attempt to address it, so if that’s not your bag, drop into the pod at about the 14-minute mark.

Join hosts Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie and Justin Quinn as they try to get a bead on how the East will play out this season while we close in on Boston’s 2022 training camp.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Which players might the Boston Celtics lose in an expansion draft?

Celtics fans in favor of expansion might be a lot less enthusiastic about it once the daydream becomes a reality.

It might be fun to daydream about a return of the Seattle SuperSonics, or the arrival of an NBA team in Mexico City or Las Vegas, Nevada, but there will be effects from such a move that fans of a team might be a lot less enthusiastic about once the daydream becomes a reality.

For fans of the Boston Celtics, that means a potential loss of players on the end of the team’s roster, a collection of players carefully assembled to contend for a title, and one that can ill afford to lose a player with nothing coming back to the team but the cap space such a loss might open.

To game out how an expansion draft held to populate new teams joining the league might affect Boston, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast held a mock expansion draft — and sure enough, some significant parts of the Celtics’ rotation ended up getting pilfered in the process.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to see who ended up going where with the new teams coming into the NBA, and see if you still feel as excited about a bigger league for Boston to play in.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Celtics Lab 140: Does the NBA have enough talent to expand, and how might it affect the Boston Celtics if they did?

On the latest episode of the Celtics Lab podcast, we put our heads together to see if the NBA is ready to expand and how it might affect Boston with a mock three-team expansion draft.

In the dog days of summer, amidst the worst of the NBA content desert, a whisper of expansion has caught the attention of the league’s most faithful fans. Since pushed back on by those in the know as this topic seems to see every time rumors of adding new teams to the league tends to go, it has still captured our collective imaginations of what such a scenario might look like.

And as NBA commissioner Adam Silver has said in the past, the league will expand at some point, so some daydreaming about a league with 32 (or more!) teams is not entirely a pointless exercise, as any such expansion will have an impact not only on what teams the Boston Celtics play, but also our favorite team itself.

But is the NBA ready to add more teams? Would the talent be stretched too thin? What players might the Celtics protect from being taken by these new teams in an expansion draft, and which players left unprotected might get grabbed?

On the latest episode of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, hosts Justin Quinn, Alex Goldberg, and Cameron Tabatabaie put their heads together to answer these questions with a mock three-team expansion draft.

Check out the clip embedded above to hear our methodology and results on this episode of the Lab, as well as the latest news trickling in this late in the offseason.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Celtics Lab 139: Talking hoops and the Celtics season to come with Maura Healey

The hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast got a chance to sit down with Healey to talk about the Celtics of today and our past, the sport more broadly, as well as her platform.

It isn’t very often that a candidate for a major political office in the United States is also a huge fan of the sport of basketball, to say nothing of the Boston Celtics. It’s even less common that they are scholars of the game’s history. And it’s nearly unheard of one being all that and a former pro in the sport.

But that would be an excellent way to describe the current Democratic candidate for Governor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Maura Healey. Currently the state’s Attorney General since 2014, Healey has previously been co-captain of the Harvard Crimson women’s basketball team and played overseas in Austria for UBBC Wustenrot Salzburg.

Healey has thrown her hat in the ring for the Governorship, but she doesn’t just stick to politics; a serious fan of the Celtics and the sport in general, she spent her years as a player donning No. 14 in honor of Celtics legend Bob Cousy, and her time playing the sport inflects her work as a politician today.

The hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast got a chance to sit down with her to talk about the Celtics of today and our past, the sport more broadly.

My love of the Celtics runs deep. Bob Cousy inspired me as a young point guard – that’s why I wore #14.

So tonight – go @celtics! pic.twitter.com/Lg5wX3xI5J

— Maura Healey (@maura_healey) June 8, 2022

At the end of the pod (so you can drop out if that’s not your thing), we talk about her plans and tasks ahead if she wins the race to be 73rd Governor of Massachusetts.

Join your usual hosts Cameron Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg, and Justin Quinn for one of our favorite interviews in some time, as well as the trickle of news coming in from Donovan Mitchell’s trade to the Cleveland Cavs to rumbles of what Boston might do to fill their final remaining open roster slots.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Once a Celtic always a Celtic: Where to find former Boston players signing new deals

You can take the man out of the Celtics, but you can’t take the Celtics out of the man.

With each new season, Boston Celtics alumni come and go from the team and from the NBA to other leagues. Sometimes, they return for new stints. Others remain overseas by design or by fate. As fan favorite big man Tacko Fall recently said (h/t to Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson), “once a Celtic always a Celtic.”

Tacko is headed to China to play for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Keeping track of where Boston’s considerable former player community is signing in even one offseason can sometimes be a daunting task for an individual — even a journalist.

So the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast linked up with renowned Twitter Celtics historian Honest Larry to keep tabs on where to find the new workplaces of former Boston players for the 2022-23 basketball season in respective leagues around the globe.

Take a look at the clip embedded below to get up to speed on who is headed where while we share our favorite memories of some of our favorites.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Celtics Lab 138: Where are they now? Keeping tabs on players from the past with Honest Larry

For this episode of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, we decided to take a trip down memory lane to get ourselves up to speed on where the alumni of the Celtics are going to spend the upcoming season.

The Boston Celtics can finally concentrate on finding the players on finishing their roster with the Kevin Durant trade request from the Brooklyn Nets rescinded, and in so doing will likely create some new alumni in the process by bringing on a few new players in place of the depth that they had in the 2021-22 NBA season.

But where are the players from Boston’s past signing for this upcoming season? What teams and leagues are they signing with? Who is making the leap into coaching? Who are still waiting for the logjam that is KD that just broke to open up some spots for them to sign with a team in the Association?

To do that we enlisted friend of the pod and unofficial team Twitter historian Honest Larry, who linked up with your usual hosts Cameron Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg, and Justin Quinn to figure out where these blasts from Boston’s past hang their hats (and their jerseys) now.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Celtics Lab 137: Digging into the 2022-23 NBA schedule for the Boston Celtics with Max Lederman

Join your Max Lederman and your usual hosts to get your bearings on how the next Celtics season will play out in this episode of the Lab.

After plenty of buildup complete with leaks about the more important games of the season in advance of the big day, the 2022-23 NBA schedule finally dropped Wednesday afternoon. It immediately sparked speculation, projections and analysis of what the lay of the land for the Boston Celtics’ next campaign will mean for the team and its 2023 title aspirations.

When will key players get rest this season? What are the marquee games? How many back to backs will there be? Is the travel situation favorable for the team? How strong is the slate of opponents, and when are the hardest and easiest parts of the league calendar?

Most importantly of all, taking all of the above into account, where do we expect Boston to finish relative to the rest of their peers in the league’s Eastern Conference?

To answer all these questions and more, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast got together with NBC Sports Boston’s Max Lederman to talk all things schedule related for the 2022-23 season, as well as some catch-up for what little news there has been since the last pod.

Join hosts Justin Quinn, Alex Goldberg and Cameron Tabatabaie to get your bearings on how the next Celtics season will play out in this episode of the Lab.

Check out the Celtics Lab podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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