{"id":818939,"date":"2026-08-19T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818939\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:32:09","slug":"neemias-queta-pushes-back-on-celtics-doubters-well-be-competitive-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818939\/","title":{"rendered":"Neemias Queta pushes back on Celtics doubters: &#8216;We&#8217;ll be competitive again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, while the NBA Finals and the Liga Betclic Finals were taking place, Neemias Queta had the opportunity to show <a data-ylk=\"slk:Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Celtics&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a> coach Joe Mazzulla around Lisbon, Benfica and Barreiro, where Queta grew up and played. What did Mazzulla tell him about what he saw in Portugal and Portuguese basketball? &#8220;I think he liked what he saw. He said there are people who can make it there if they really want to work hard. And I think he really loved Portugal. I think the thing he liked the most was the food. It was a good time. He came alone, but he said next year he&#8217;s coming with his wife and kids. We&#8217;ll welcome them with open arms,&#8221; Queta revealed. <a data-ylk=\"slk:As for his expectations for the Celtics next season, Queta expects them to &quot;be competitive again.&quot; &quot;People have already started saying again that the other teams are the good ones and that we don&#039;t have enough quality. But I think, with the group we have, the people we have in the locker room? And our coach?&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;As for his expectations for the Celtics next season, Queta expects them to \\&quot;be competitive again.\\&quot; \\&quot;People have already started saying again that the other teams are the good ones and that we don&#039;t have enough quality. But I think, with the group we have, the people we have in the locker room? And our coach?\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abola.pt\/noticias\/neemias-queta-vai-haver-picardias-com-o-hugo-gonzalez-2026081908000745003\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">As for his expectations for the Celtics next season, Queta expects them to &#8220;be competitive again.&#8221; &#8220;People have already started saying again that the other teams are the good ones and that we don&#8217;t have enough quality. But I think, with the group we have, the people we have in the locker room? And our coach?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In June, while the NBA Finals and the Liga Betclic Finals were taking place, Neemias Queta had the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[13034,49546,347392,355,33195,4042,99],"class_list":["post-818939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-celtics","tag-joe-mazzulla","tag-liga-betclic-finals","tag-nba","tag-neemias-queta","tag-portugal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818939","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=818939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}