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Celtics Spotlight NBAS Turbulent

Celtics Spotlight NBAS Turbulent

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Are the Boston Celtics unloaded in this low season in a way that re -shaped the NBA and changes the performance dynamics?

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The cracks in the foundation are more difficult to see in the appearance of an NBA championship.

The Boston Celtics won the title eleven months ago and were immediately listed as favorites to return with Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Jru Holiday, Derrick White, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford and Payton Pritchhard.

The title, a league best no. 18, ended an eight-year-old run with six appearances by the Eastern Conference and two trips to the NBA final. After the players came back, Brad Stevens headed the Front Office and Joe Mazzulla Coaching, it was easy to think more and more.

However, the situations change quickly because today's NBA becomes individual. When the league calendar started on July 1, 2024, the Celtics owner group announced plans to sell the famous franchise, and the team's salary and luxury taxes for the 2025-26-Ungefärt season were half a billion dollars in discussions about the future of the Celtics.

Ownership announced in March that it achieved a contract for the sale of the team for a record valuation of 6 billion US dollars to a group led by William Chisholm. Two months later Tatum in game 4 broke his rights Achilles in this year's semi -finals of the Eastern Conference against the New York Knicks and put it on for about a year.

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After the Knicks removed the Celtics 119-81 in game 6 on Friday evening, Boston's future is murkier and the prospect of returning the same roster and paying $ 500 million in squad content and luxury taxes for a team that has not had Tatum for about a year.

Celtics, one of the leading franchise companies of the NBA, could unload this low season in a way that re -shaped the league and changed the dynamics of power?

With Boston's Playoff exit, it guarantees that the NBA will have a different champion for the seventh season in a row. This has given playoff caliber teams optimism that you can benefit from a final window with the right or two years.

If you are one of these teams, look at Boston's squad and see players like Brown, White, Holiday and Porzingis who can help a team to the next level.

Brown is $ 285 million in the second season of a contract at the age of five; The vacation in the first year of a contract at four years is $ 134 million (it has a player option for 2027-28). Porzingis has another season in his contract. And the four-year extension of $ 118 million begins next season.

In order to express the enormous financial situation, Tatum's five-year extension of $ 313.9 million begins next season and will pay him to $ 71.4 million in $ 2029-30. The chatter of the draft in Chicago this week has teamed up in the availability of the vacation.

Even deep into the foundations worth $ 6 billion worth $ 6 billion have financial limits. Team building and roster construction require a new approach. Adding star to star and dollar to dollars are not practical options.

It shows the turbulent nature of today's NBA a by-product of the collective agreement in 2023, in which “it should be ensured that every team was able to fight championships and had resources,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in July.

He later added: “What the fans want to see is a great competition. And for fans of the team for which they are, they want to believe that their team, regardless of the size of the market or the depth of the owners, is able to compete in the same way as the 29 other teams are.

“From my point of view, as long as teams through strong management, great players, great chemistry, through great coaches and great management of the organization, make the results happen. I have no predetermined view.

“However, I think that the fact that we have had six different champions in the past six years speaks to the system. It indicates that, by successfully, successive collective agreements through changes in our income sharing programs and other things that we can control in the league have become more statistically more competitive.”

And the Celtics, one of the famous franchise companies in the league, discover exactly what that means.

Follow the NBA reporter Jeff Zillgitt on social media @Jeffzillgitt

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