The former Florida standout, who won two national championships under Billy Donovan in 2006 and 2007, was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. An NBA All-Rookie Selection in 2008, he spent nine seasons in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
In July 2016, Horford signed a four-year deal with the Celtics. He was in Boston for three seasons before signing with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2019. He was then traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Dec. 2020 before being traded back to the Celtics in June 2021.<\/p>\n
Horford is a 5-time NBA All-Star selection, including in back-to-back seasons in 2015 and 2016. He was an All-NBA Third Team selection in 2011 and a second-team All-NBA Defensive Team member in 2018.<\/p>\n
The Celtics went 61-21 in the 2024-25 season, finishing in second place in the Eastern Conference. They then defeated the Orlando Magic in the first round of the playoffs before falling to the New York Knicks in six games.<\/p>\n
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Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men’s national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al Horford has a new NBA team after spending 4 seasons with the Boston Celtics. Horford, who won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-188211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}