{"id":37129,"date":"2025-07-25T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37129\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:23:16","slug":"5-nba-rosters-that-make-zero-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37129\/","title":{"rendered":"5 NBA Rosters That Make Zero Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Preparing to go through a gap year while Jayson Tatum recovers from an Achilles injury doesn&#8217;t give the Boston Celtics a license to trot out their current frontline\u2014unless the goal is to tank their hearts out. With both Jaylen Brown and Derrick White still in tow, we have to assume that&#8217;s not plan A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Beantown&#8217;s 4-5 rotation is currently populated by Sam Hauser, Georges Niang, Xavier Tillman, Neemias Queta, Josh Minnott and Luka Garza. That is rough. Especially when it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Hauser or Niang ambles his way onto the chopping block as the Celtics continue to slash operating costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Perhaps Boston will snare another 4 and\/or 5 as part of subsequent trades. Or maybe it&#8217;s secretly hoping Al Horford will get tired of being held hostage by restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga and return on the minimum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Whatever the Celtics are doing here, no matter how out-of-the-mix they&#8217;re attempting to be, the frontcourt needs more juice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preparing to go through a gap year while Jayson Tatum recovers from an Achilles injury doesn&#8217;t give the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-37129","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\/37129","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=37129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}