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The 2021-22 NBA season may be well behind us, but the debut of NBA 23K3 -- the latest installment of the classic 2K series -- kicked off the annual Sin City offseason exhibition series better known as Las Vegas Summer League where the fiercest opponents on the court mingle together with the press that cover them all year while we all overreact to the next generation of players fighting to show they belong in the league.

Our Cameron Tabatabaie is in attendance himself to get the goods on the latest in the 2k series, soak in the Summer Celtics, and take the pulse of players and cognoscenti who made the trip to the big Nevada event about the state of the Boston Celtics.

In this special episode, Cameron links up with 2k curator Ronnie2k and Oklahoma City Thunder star Josh Giddey -- give it a listen to prove the old adage that 'everything that happens in Las Vegas' does not, in fact, stay there.

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Sometimes, the best window into the state of a team is from the outside, the eye of an opposing player giving a new perspective to the echo chamber-like coverage one often sees within a team’s sphere of coverage.

To that end, our own Cameron Tabatabaie got the goods on the Boston Celtics after their 2022 Finals run and build up to the looming 2022-23 season from Phoenix Suns star guard Devin Booker. The 2k23 cover star sat down with Tabatabaie to talk about everything from the newest iteration of the game his image now graces to the next car he plans to buy, but there was plenty of talk about the Celtics as well.

Booker, in particular, had plenty to say about Boston’s top-rated defense. Check out this mini-pod from the NBA 23k3 Las Vegas Summer League to hear the Suns star chat about the Celtics, the league, and more while we wait for the Sin City Celtics to square off with the Summer Heat.

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Basketball fans of all stripes love the popular video game franchise NBA 2K, and the latest edition is full of new features, exciting gameplay, and adorned with some of the game’s best players as cover athletes.

Devin Booker and Michael Jordan will be two of the stars of NBA 2K23, while the franchise tapped legends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi as the cover athletes for the WNBA edition of the game.

Taurasi is the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer, a five-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time WNBA champion. She’s one of the best to ever do it and a fitting cover athlete for NBA 2K23 -- and she even has some kind words about the Boston Celtics despite growing up a Los Angeles Lakers fan.

Our Cameron Tabatabaie chatted with Taurasi to celebrate this next milestone in her career. In an interview conducted at the end of June, Taurasi discussed her favorite video games, the state of athletics in the United States and the importance of some of the difficult headlines and issues in the world today we thought you might want to listen to while we work on our next installment of the Celtics Lab podcast.

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If the Boston Celtics are not done with their team-building activities in the 2022 NBA offseason, they are very likely close to it. A contract for the soon-to-be bought-out veteran forward Danilo Gallinari was quickly followed by a trade of a top-12 protected first-round draft pick, a pair of deep rotation players, and a trio of garbage time specialists for Malcolm Brogdon.

Not long after, Boston inked forward Sam Hauser and veteran big man Luke Kornet, and save perhaps for bringing on another reserve big man to eat some regular-season minutes for Al Horford and Robert Williams III, the Celtics could very well be finished with their 2022-23 roster.

To that end, we linked up with FiveThirtyEight's Jared Dubin to talk all things Celtics offseason assessments, and wrap up our conversation with some words about covering the league in the midst of some very contentious times far beyond the game of basketball.

Join your usual hosts Cameron Tabatabaie, Alex Goldberg, and Justin Quinn as we talk through team building in difficult times on this episode of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast.

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The Boston Celtics were, by most accounts, not going to make much if any moves until the weekend got here. But whether that was a smoke screen or whether a happy accident set the Celtics team building wheels into motion, the team that represented the NBA's Eastern Conference in the 2022 NBA Finals just got quite a bit better.

It started with the team landing long-coveted veteran wing Danilo Gallinari, and went into hyperdrive with the trade for Indiana Pacers point guard Malcolm Brogdon, the Celtics sending out a top-12 protected first-round pick, center Daniel Theis, wing Aaron Nesmith, and three rarely-played deep rotation players.

To get a feel for how Brogdon will impact a Finals squad that gave up no core players to bring on the Indiana floor general, we brought on host of the Off the Glass "Full Access Pacers" podcast, Kory Waldron.

Your usual hosts Alex Goldberg and Justin Quinn linked up with Waldron to talk all things Brogdon trade, Celtics team building, and plenty more offseason action.

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With Juancho Hernangomez on the court, Will Hardy on the sidelines, and Danny Ainge running the front office, you would be forgiven if you mistook the Utah Jazz for the Boston Celtics. But the Bo Cruz connection aside, the hires of Ainge as the team's CEO of basketball ops and more recently Hardy as head coach were no coincidence, the Salt Lake City-based franchise looking to steal a little of the mojo that helped Boston rise to the Finals contender they became in 2021-22.

What can the Jazz expect with so much Celtics brass running the show next season? Will Ainge be the right man for the job in Utah? How much will Boston and head coach Ime Udoka miss their assistant now that he's been promoted?

Celtics Wire general editor Justin Quinn appeared on Salt Lake City sports radio's "KSL Unrivaled" show on 97.5 FM locally to talk about the Hardy hire, Ainge in charge of the Jazz' retool, and more.

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The Boston Celtics are done with the 2022 NBA draft and have since turned their attention to the annual Sin City exhibition series better known as Las Vegas Summer League, with a familiar stashed floor general joining some of the younger players on Boston's roster along with a handful of undrafted free agents left over from this year's draft.

They also need to sharpen their focus on the looming free agency period set to kick off on the night of Thursday, June 30 armed with their $6.4 million mini-mid level exception and a host of traded player exceptions (TPEs) including several of consequence. What can we expect to see from the Celtics as the 2022 offseason hits its peak over the next two weeks?

To answer these questions, we recruited the help of Boston.com's Tom Westerholm and came away feeling pretty positive about where Boston is sitting heading into next season. We even touch on conspicuously liked tweets making the news for all the wrong reasons and try our hand (incorrectly, it turns out) at prognosticating where former Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving might be playing come October.

Join your usual hosts Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn as we look ahead to the high points of a hopefully impactful Celtics offseason.

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If you are one of the many fans of the Boston Celtics scrambling to get caught up on what the team might do in the 2022 NBA draft this Thursday night at the Brooklyn Nets' home arena of Barclay's Center in New York City with the No. 53 pick of the draft, we have you covered.

With plenty of eyes justifiably fixated on how the Celtics were doing in the 2022 NBA Finals until Boston's Game 6 loss ended the series, getting caught up on what prospects might be in range for the Celtics and happen to also be a good fit for Boston's needs is what most hardcore Celtics fans have been up to over the last few days.

To that end, we coupled our own research with For The Win's Bryan Kalbrosky's draft expertise for the latest episode of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast to get you up to speed on what Boston might do in the draft above and beyond their second-round pick.

Join your usual hosts Alex Goldberg and Justin Quinn as they link up with Kalbrosky to get you everything you need to know about what the Celtics can do in the 2022 draft.

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The Boston Celtics lost Game 6 of their 2022 NBA Finals series with the Golden State Warriors to lose the NBA title to their West Coast rivals, but are already turning the page to the 2022-23 NBA season and how they can spruce up their roster and skills in order to not only make the Finals again, but this time, come out on top.

They have a very good idea about what they need to improve on as a team and as individual players and will have plenty of tools at their disposal to add some key new faces. Don't expect fireworks in terms of a splashy addition this offseason, but armed with a bevy of traded player exceptions (TPEs), draft assets, and young players, Boston could make some minor moves around the margins or even get aggressive should the right player become available.

There is a lot to cover on what the offseason might end up looking like, so we broke it into two chunks, with this episode covering free agents, trades, and internal improvements, and another coming soon that will focus on the 2022 NBA draft headed our way this Thursday.

Join your usual hosts Justin Quinn, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Alex Goldberg as we say goodbye to 2021-22 while turning our attention toward what needs to happen to make 2022-23 a success.

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The Boston Celtics squandered a game that saw Golden State Warriors star point guard Stephen Curry go a shocking 0-for-9 from 3-point range in Game 5 of their 2022 NBA Playoffs series with the Dubs, falling 104-94 and to a 2-3 series deficit as a result of Golden State's role players stepping up when no one on the Celtics did.

The series isn't over as it heads back to Boston and TD Garden on Thursday, but now the Celtics need to win two games to hang a banner, and one of them on the road should they force a Game 7. Did Boston blow a near-optimal opportunity to hang a banner in year 1 of the Ime Udoka era?

After the loss, the hosts of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast decided to talk out their thoughts in reaction to the botched Game 5 effort, and get into what went wrong in the loss as well as what needs to improve if the team is to have any chance of winning it all.

Join your usual hosts Alex Goldberg and Cameron Tabatabaie as they break down Game 5 with an eye tilted towards Game 6 and (hopefully) beyond.

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