You remember that cake the Boston Celtics ordered before the season? Well, turns out they're going to just devour it, too. Because while they've managed to masterfully make needed cost-cutting measures, they've done so without abandoning the NBA championship race.
In fact, there's a non-zero chance they wind up leading the darn thing. Who could've seen this coming? Big buy-in believers inside the locker room, maybe, and perhaps the most extreme glass-overflowing optimists in the fanbase. But objective observers? Nah.
"I've never been more wrong about a team in my life than I am and was about the 2025-26 Boston Celtics," The Ringer's Zach Lowe admitted on The Zach Lowe Show.