{"id":214908,"date":"2025-10-10T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214908\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:29:07","slug":"why-nba-writer-thinks-celtics-will-exceed-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214908\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NBA Writer Thinks Celtics Will Exceed Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Celtics enter the season with lower expectations, mainly because star forward Jayson Tatum suffered an Achilles injury. However, The Athletic\u2019s Zach Harper believes that Boston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6706659\/2025\/10\/10\/the-bounce-nba-warriors-celtics-wembanyama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">can outperform what<\/a> many people anticipate this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this team is way better than most assume,\u201d Harper wrote Friday. \u201cTheir style of play on random nights in the regular season is really difficult to handle. I think this team has a good shot at remaining in the top six before a quick playoff exit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Tatum will likely miss a significant portion of the season, the Celtics still boast one of the top guards in the NBA, Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has proven that he can step up as Boston\u2019s No. 1 option. Over his nine-year NBA career, he has earned four All-Star selections, showcasing his talent by averaging 19 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists across 603 games.<\/p>\n<p>Boston won\u2019t need to depend solely on Brown. The Celtics also feature one of the top two-way guards in Derrick White, not to mention last season\u2019s NBA Sixth Man of the Year, Payton Pritchard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics will debut a new look this season, but they still retain several core players from their 2024 NBA Finals championship team. These players are motivated to silence the doubters and make a strong impression.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics enter the season with lower expectations, mainly because star forward Jayson Tatum suffered an Achilles injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-214908","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\/214908","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=214908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}