{"id":684230,"date":"2026-06-04T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684230\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:44:08","slug":"celtics-predicted-to-add-7-foot-center-as-possible-successor-to-neemias-queta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684230\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Predicted To Add 7-Foot Center As Possible Successor To Neemias Queta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the 2026 NBA Draft is scheduled for June 23, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a> currently hold the 27th pick. Boston&#8217;s top priority should be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25433052-new-2026-nba-mock-draft-blockbuster-jaylen-brown-trade-idea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strengthening its front<\/a> court, and according to Bleacher Report&#8217;s Zach Buckley, the Celtics should select North Carolina center Henri Veesaar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Celtics typically load up with as many shooters as they can get, and they naturally have an affinity for floor-spacing bigs,&#8221; Buckley, wrote on Thursday. &#8220;Once financial constraints forced them to split from the likes of Al Horford and Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is in 2025, they pivoted to Luka Garza and Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Vu\u010devi\u0107 is a free agent now, and Garza is unproven as a rotation regular, so Boston could continue its stretch-big search with Veesaar. He is a 7&#8217;0&#8243; play-finisher both around the rim and beyond the 3-point arc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Veesaar was in college for four seasons, spending his first three years at Arizona before heading to North Carolina last year. The 7-foot center took off last season, averaging 17 points and 8.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics could consider drafting Veesaar and allowing him to develop during the upcoming season. By the 2027-28 campaign, they might realistically incorporate him into the starting lineup, which could leave Neemias Queta out of a job.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/celtics-three-team-trade-prediction-sends-jaylen-brown-hawks-rising-star\/c4277e56f0016cb48af40659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtics Three-Team Trade Prediction Sends Jaylen Brown To Hawks For Rising Star<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first round of the 2026 NBA Draft is scheduled for June 23, and the Celtics currently hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-684230","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\/684230","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=684230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}