{"id":354496,"date":"2025-12-17T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354496\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:34:06","slug":"should-we-blame-the-nba-cup-for-the-boston-celtics-looking-rusty-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354496\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we blame the NBA Cup for the Boston Celtics looking rusty this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should we blame the NBA Cup for the Boston Celtics looking rusty this week? The Celtics morphed from world-beaters when they were winning 10 of their last 12 games to a mediocre ball club in their last two contests, a road loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> and a home defeat at the hands of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Pistons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Pistons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main difference between the first chunk of games and the most recent? A breakneck pace of games to create space for the NBA Cup to play out around the league in the first chunk of games, and huge, multi-day gaps between contests for the Celtics, once again to facilitate Cup play.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The hosts of the CLNS Media &#8220;How Bout Them Celtics!&#8221; podcast, Jack Simone and Sam LaFrance, took some time on a recent episode of their show to talk over how much blame ought to be assigned to the scheduling committee of the Association. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/12\/17\/should-we-blame-the-nba-cup-for-the-celtics-looking-rusty-this-week\/87811774007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Should we blame the NBA Cup for the Celtics looking rusty this week?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Should we blame the NBA Cup for the Celtics looking rusty this week?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should we blame the NBA Cup for the Boston Celtics looking rusty this week? The Celtics morphed from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2242,4576,360,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-354496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-detroit-pistons","10":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354496","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=354496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}