Celtics Lab NBA Basketball Podcast

Jan 27 2025 434 ep. 50 mins
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On Celtics Lab, we go deep into the details, finding compelling narratives, data, stories and interviews you won't find anywhere else.

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Assessing the potential trade deadline impact on the East order

Jan 27 2025 49 mins  
While the Boston Celtics may not make any major moves at the 2025 NBA trade deadline, but much of the rest of the league's Eastern Conference will be looking to improve their rosters to try to get closer to the level of the Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers at the top of the conference's standings. Which teams are gunning for major moves? Which ball clubs will look for medium-siz

Making sense of midseason trader rumbles from a Celtics perspective

Jan 21 2025 48 mins  
The depths of the NBA's winter doldrums are here, and with that comes rampant trade speculation. And while the Boston Celtics are unlikely to make any major trades given the strength of their roster and the restrictions put on the team by the league's new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), it is also widely expected that Boston will make a minor move or two to shave some hurt o

On Boston, 3-pointers, and history with Dana Barros

Jan 13 2025 43 mins  
The Boston Celtics have made a name for themselves as a team that is pushing the 3-point shot to ever greater heights under head coach Joe Mazzulla, and having done so helped win them a title in 2024. But now there is hand-wringing over the shot by analysts and fans of the team alike as Boston is currently in a bit of a funk from beyond the arc in recent weeks. Is the team shooting

Projecting which Boston, NBA players make All-Star for 2025

Jan 06 2025 55 mins  
The results from the first round of the fan vote for the NBA's 2024-25 All-Star Game are in, and while the media and players have yet to vote (along with several more rounds of fan voting, Boston Celtics fans, you know what to do), we can start to get an idea about which players are locks, which are still up in the air, and who is probably not going to make this year's squad. There

Previewing Boston-OKC, Celtics' West Coast swing with Clemente Almanza

Dec 30 2024 51 mins  
The Boston Celtics will start their first West Coast swing of the NBA's 2024-25 regular season, with the pinnacle of that trip coming in the first meeting between the other of the two teams widely seen as most likely to meet in the 2025 NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder. The trip will test Boston's mettle as they face tougher teams than most of the mostly Eastern Conference foe

2024 Festivus Lab - A Boston Celtics podcast tradition

Dec 23 2024 62 mins  
The Boston Celtics may be on a roll to open the 2024-25 season, but that doesn't mean there aren't things to nitpick. And what better day than Festivus to air some grievances about the Celtics? In what has become an annual tradition, the folks at CLNS Media's "Celtics Lab" podcast decided to unleash their inner Frank Costanza and speak the truth. And this year that meant bringing o

Midseason Celtics Bluesky NBA basketball mailbag

Dec 16 2024 54 mins  
Fans of the Boston Celtics now find themselves in what is probably the dullest part of the NBA's 2024-25 regular season. At present, the Celtics are on the outside looking in with regard to the 2024-25 NBA Cup knockout round in Las Vegas, with a slate of mostly uninspiring opponents coming at Boston at a fairly relaxed pace in terms of the frequency of games. With that lethargic pa

Assessing the Celtics development pipeline with Jack Simone

Dec 09 2024 58 mins  
The Boston Celtics are the best team in the NBA thanks in large part to their depth, but the league's collective bargaining agreement and age will eventually force changes to the heavy-minutes players on Boston's roster in the next several seasons. Thankfully for the Celtics, they have most of their younger core players under contract beyond this season, and have several promising

Handing out player grades for the Boston Celtics at the season quarter mark with Bobby Krivitsky

Dec 03 2024 56 mins  
The NBA's 2024-25 regular season is officially past the quarter-season mark with Boston having played more than 20 games. And with that sample size in the books, we can finally say we have some idea about what this version of the storied ball club is compared to their peers around the league. With that in mind for the Celtics' current body of work, the hosts of the CLNS Media "Celt

How the return of Kristaps Porzingis will impact the Boston Celtics with Ben Vallis

Nov 25 2024 69 mins  
Fans of the Boston Celtics will finally see star Boston big man Kristaps Porzingis make his season debut against the Los Angeles Clippers at TD Garden on Monday (Nov. 25) evening, barring any unexpected setbacks. And with that news will come change for the Celtics -- but in which ways? For one, Boston's frontcourt rotation will immediately be a more talented and diverse one, allowi