{"id":389055,"date":"2026-01-05T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:55:09","slug":"%e2%ad%90%ef%b8%8f-giannis-for-jaylen-who-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389055\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2b50\ufe0f Giannis For Jaylen. Who Says No?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Jaylen Brown surging, the Boston Celtics are a serious threat to win the East. Would trading for Giannis make them a threat to win it all? Maybe. But if it took Brown \u2026 things get very interesting.<\/p>\n

Welcome to another edition of Tom\u2019s Title Tiers! A reminder: This is my subjective list based largely on objective data. This is not a pure, analytical ranking. You\u2019re here because you want to know what I think, to get inside my brain a little bit. Consider this a weekly report of what I see on film; what I glean from the numbers; what I hear on the phone; what I read in the news; what I feel.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s featured squad: the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n

A reminder that teams are listed within each tier in alphabetical order, not in order of strength. Here\u2019s a quick rundown of each tier:<\/p>\n

\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f This is a complete team, no notes.\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f Just missing that one thing.\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f One move away from being one move away.\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f So much has to break right.\u2b50\ufe0f Sooo you\u2019re saying there\u2019s a chance.<\/p>\n

Should the Boston Celtics go all-in for Giannis? What do we do with the Jokic-less Nuggets? After the weekend beatdown, are the Sixers in the same tier as the Knicks?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n

Statistical data updated through 9 pm ET Sunday night.<\/p>\n

This is a complete team, no notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s rating: \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/p>\n

Record: 30-5 | 118.6 aORtg (5th), 106.4 aDRtg (1st), +12.2 aNet (1st)<\/p>\n

Check out last month\u2019s post about OKC\u2019s clutch supremacy!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just missing that one thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images With Jaylen Brown surging, the Boston Celtics are a serious threat to win the East. Would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-389055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389055","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=389055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}