Jeff Goodman is a basketball insider for ESPN. The preeminent draft expert in the country, Jeff joins Celtics Beat as part of a yearly tradition to primer highly touted college basketball draft prospects for this year’s NBA Draft. Twitter: @GoodmanESPN 2:35 Ticket giveaway information 4:33 Jeff Goodman joins the show 6:30 Is Isaiah Thomas an elite point guard? 8:20 Harry Giles 11:18 Who should Celtics take #1 overall? 12:30 Scouting reports on Markelle Fultz, Dennis Smith, Lonzo Ball, Malik Monk...
Dec 04, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Keith Smith covers the NBA for realGM and the Boston Celtics for CelticsBlog. Twitter: @KeithSmithNBA Ryan Bernardoni covers the Celts with a specialization on roster building, the CBA and the salary cap for ESPN’s True Hoop blog, CelticsHub. Twitter: @dangercart 3:50 Jae Crowder & locker room audio 8:12 Keith Smith on Al Horford’s early season impact 10:50 Fixing the Celtics second unit 12:45 Kelly Olynyk struggles & his importance 15:48 Terry Rozier’s development 17:00 Celtics 2nd Quar...
Nov 27, 2016•59 min
Danny Leroux is the host of realGM Radio, Dunc’d On, Locked on Warriors, and the Twitter NBA Show. He also contributes to Sporting News and The Athletic. Twitter: @DannyLeRoux 2:21 Ticket giveaways 5:12 How Golden State Warriors smothered the Boston Celtics in Friday’s 3rd quarter. 8:50 Is Boston’s defense an issue? 12:06 Primary concerns for Celts 16:25 Targeting Andrew Bogut and would he would bring 23:05 Isaiah Thomas and his place in NBA 29:05 Dubs intensity level in regular season going for...
Nov 20, 2016•56 min
Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons legend and current analyst for NBAtv joins Larry H. Russell to discuss his protege Jaylen Brown’s performance thus far after some recent struggles. LHR also recaps the week that was, opens the mailbag and brings back Around the NBA in 5. Celtics Beat is presented by MVMT Watches, Audible, Casper, and American Farmer’s Network. Available for download on iTunes and Stitcher on Sunday, November 13th. Powered by CLNS Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
Nov 13, 2016•58 min
Dave McMenamin of ESPN returns to discuss Thursday’s Cleveland Cavaliers victory over the Boston Celtics on national TV. LHR recaps the remainder of the week and conducts the pre-game segment against the Denver Nuggets with Justin Poulin. Celtics Beat is presented by MVMT Watches, Audible, Casper, and American Farmer’s Network. Available for download on iTunes and Stitcher on Sunday, November 6th. Powered by CLNS Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 06, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Chris Forsberg of ESPN Boston is in studio to discuss the Boston Celtics opening week of the 2016-17 NBA campaign with games against the Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls, and Charlotte Hornets. Celtics Beat is presented by MVMT Watches, Audible, Casper, and American Farmer’s Network. Available for download on iTunes and Stitcher on Sunday, October 30th, 2016 at 9 AM ET. Powered by CLNS Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2016•1 hr
Rich Gotham, President of the Boston Celtics returns to the broadcast to discuss the prospects of the 2017 Boston Celtics who open up Wednesday at the TD Garden against the Brooklyn Nets. LHR also gives his full slate of predictions both for the Celts and the NBA. Celtics Beat is presented by MVMT Watches, Audible, Casper, and American Farmer’s Network. Available for download on iTunes and Stitcher on Sunday, October 23rd, 2016. Powered by CLNS Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Oct 23, 2016•58 min
One week to go: The Boston Celtics are entering their final week of the pre-season. It is just the exhibition NBA season, but thus far, the Celts have looked good and the fans (those who watched) have to be pleased with what they see. How will this translate to the regular season which begins in ten days? The returning Larry H. Russell tries to answer this question the best he can while also giving his own player outlook for this season. Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe returns to the featured guest...
Oct 16, 2016•59 min
Three NBA pre-season games are in the books for the Boston Celtics, and there have been some decent takeaways. So much so that we actually have a mailbag this week on Celtics Beat. Justin Poulin of Celtics Stuff Live, sits in this week for Larry H. Russell to discuss the opening slate of pre-season basketball. Jeff Clark, founder of CelticsBlog joins Justin in Suday’s featured segment to talk about what they’ve seen thus far in the pre-season. Such as how the floor spacing created by Horford has...
Oct 09, 2016•1 hr
Check off Media Day, first day of training camp and Open Practice. The Boston Celtics are now one full week into training camp and things are beginning to take shape. Jared Weiss, host of the Garden Report and Michael Pina of Bleacher Report discuss the entire outlook on the Celtics as we head into their first patch of pre-season games. Marcus Smart also joins the program in an exclusive interview with CelticsBlog’s Jared Weiss. They dive deep into Smart’s work to fix his jump shot this summer a...
Oct 02, 2016•1 hr
Every year on Celtics Beat, we delve into the history of the NBA’s most legendary franchise...the Boston Celtics! This year, during the off-season, we individually profile a player rather than a specific game. Jo Jo White returns to the airwaves to talk about his career as a Celtic, how hard it was to come to a team that just lost Bill Russell and going about to establish its own championship pedigree of its own. How relevant is that to today as this current group of Celtics, where after the dep...
Sep 25, 2016•1 hr 1 min
The end of the primer series marks the end of the NBA off-season. With the Boston Celtics training camp set to open next week, it’s is the last show of the summer of Celtics Beat. And we wrap up the primer series with the Atlanta Hawks with Chris Vivlamore. There’s been a lot of talk about what the addition of Al Horford will do for the Celtics. But what about his loss to the Hawks? That has gone under the radar, but safe to say, it won’t this week. Kevin Pelton of ESPN also returns to the airwa...
Sep 18, 2016•59 min
NFL Kickoff Weekend means that we’re one week closer to the start of the NBA season. And we continue our Boston Celtics primer series, this week not looking at an NBA Playoffs foe, but rather a supplier of highly valued first round selections in the NBA Draft: Our Yearly Preview of the Brooklyn Nets. Ian Eagle, Nets play-by-play announcer for the YES Network, stops by for his annual September appearance on Celtics Beat. Brooklyn cleaned house this off-season, new GM, new coach, new players. So, ...
Sep 11, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Happy Labor Day! Summer is now officially over here on the East Coast. The NBA season is now just weeks away and the Boston Celtics are counting down the days to training camp and the 2016-17 campaign. And in doing so, we continue our primers of the Celtics premiere competition in the NBA’s Eastern Conference here on Celtics Beat. Stephanie Ready, color commentator for the Charlotte Hornets on FOX Sports South is first up. The Hornets were one of the surprise teams in the league last year and ar...
Sep 04, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Training camp is now less than a month away and Labor Day is next week. The summer is winding down which means the NBA season is right around the corner. Which gives Celtics Beat ample opportunity to preview some conference rivals for the Boston Celtics in 2016-17. Quinn Buckner, longtime NBA veteran, former Celtic, and current Indiana Pacers color commentator on FOX Sports Indiana is back on the CLNS Radio airwaves once again to give a primer on the Pacers and their off-season. No team outside ...
Aug 28, 2016•1 hr 2 min
Turn the page: We are now well into August and everything is in the bank for the Boston Celtics and the NBA. Last season is now last season and this past summer is now last summer. The NBA schedule has now been released and it’s now about looking forward to the 2016-17 NBA season. Kristen Ledlow of NBAtv and Turner Sports is back on the broadcast to talk about the biggest takeaway from the new schedule: The Boston Celtics are featured on national TV 22 times. Wow! That certainly provides plenty ...
Aug 21, 2016•55 min
Cherry on top: The 2016 Boston Celtics Off-Season is now likely over and the countdown to NBA Training Camp is officially on. The Celtics had a very busy NBA Draft, made a major splash with Al Horford, almost lured Kevin Durant, and were quiet again on the trade front. Unquestionably a better team for 2017, the Celts are rapidly rising in the NBA ranks. Austin Ainge, Boston Celtics Director of Player Personnel returns to CLNS Radio to recap the entire Off-Season with Larry H. Russell in this wee...
Aug 14, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Summer Forecast 2016: How much will our predictions for the 2016-17 Boston Celtics change in the immediate aftermath of their off-season until the eve of the 2017 NBA campaign at the end of October? Well, we’ll find out on episode #169 of Celtics Beat. Chris Forsberg has been conducting the Summer Forecasts with various members of the Boston media over on ESPN.com for the past six summers. And this year, the expectations are the highest for the Celts as they have been in years. Is 50 wins the ba...
Aug 07, 2016•1 hr 2 min
July 31, 2007: The nine year anniversary of Kevin Garnett being traded to the Boston Celtics. Many have drawn today's date as the "line in the sand" for potential trades to occur. Today, Jimmy Toscano of the Boston Metro joins Nick Gelso to fill the host duties for Larry H. Russell. A. Sherrod Blakely of CSNNE is today's featured guest. With Doc Rivers recently back in the news for his candid interview on The Vertical Podcast, Toscano, Gelso and Blakely discuss everything nostalgic from the Kevi...
Jul 31, 2016•1 hr 2 min
Are things beginning to quiet down? That’s been the case on Twitter. Does that mean it is in the real world for the Boston Celtics and the rest of the NBA? CLNS Radio and Celtics Beat presents two people who may have the answers: The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach and The Vertical at Yahoo! Sports’ Michael Lee. They’ll stop by to provide the answers to the following questions: How close are the Celts on a deal for Blake Griffin? Is Jahlil Okafor a potential option or is that just media day drea...
Jul 24, 2016•1 hr 2 min
The NBA off-season is still red hot, both in the rumor mill and on the court in NBA Summer League out in Las Vegas. Are the Boston Celtics on the verge of something massive? Could their next super team feature Blake Griffin and Russell Westbrook to go along with Al Horford? Who would go and who would stay on this current Celtics roster? Michael Smith, former Celtics and current Los Angeles Clippers color commentator goes over it all on the Blake Griffin trade front. Are the Clips really interest...
Jul 17, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Kevin Durant has spurned the Boston Celtics, dumped the Oklahoma City Thunder and has decided to join the powerhouse Golden State Warriors. It still stings and it’s utterly flabbergasting. How could someone be so hell-bent on taking the easy way out to win a championship and join a bitter rival to meet an end goal? Danny Leroux of realGMRadio will stop by to attempt to answer those questions. At the very least, it should be a lot of fun. But will it be as fun unless the Warriors come out like ga...
Jul 10, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Al Horford to the Boston Celtics - yay! Well, the big fallacy that the Celts have never signed a major free agent is over. And it’s more than just that. The Celts added a major piece. How much does Horford improve the team? What kind of repercussions does it have in the rest of the Eastern Conference? And will the Celts get Kevin Durant?! Justin Poulin is up early to provide instant analysis to the mayhem. Howard Beck will also stop by for a few brief moments to rundown the rest of NBA Free Agen...
Jul 03, 2016•59 min
Was it a clunker? There was a lot of hype and anticipation heading into the 2016 NBA Draft for the Boston Celtics, but universal sentiment has everyone from fans, media and possibly those within the organization far from enamored about the night the Celtics had back on Thursday evening. Sure they didn’t make a big move, but what about the rest of the night? Did anything go right? Scott Howard-Cooper of NBA.com and NBAtv will check into Celtics Beat first to give a rundown on the six selections t...
Jun 26, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Double duty this week: After last week’s impromptu interview with free agent-to-be Jared Dudley, we’re going to have to double up this week on Celtics Beat with a 2016 NBA Draft Preview as well as a Boston Celtics trade primer...all in one show! Chris Forsberg of ESPN will take care of the trade primer with LHR. It’s all about possibilities here. We know it’s a lock people would be more than willing to part with lottery selections for Jimmy Butler, DeMarcus Cousins, Blake Griffin, and Kevin Love...
Jun 19, 2016•1 hr 2 min
There are few teams in the NBA more appealing than the Boston Celtics. Don’t take it from us, take it from today’s featured guest. Jared Dudley, veteran NBA swingman and current free agent wants in on the Boston Celtics. Dudley discusses the reasons as to why, from everything to the stability of the organization, to how good of a coach Brad Stevens is, and the fans of Boston. He is talks about why his skills such as his versatility and outside shooting would help fill some deficiencies that the ...
Jun 12, 2016•57 min
Continuing in the spirit of special edition shows, this week will take an in-depth look at free agency this summer in the NBA...for the Boston Celtics of course. Sean Deveney, NBA Insider for the Sporting News is back once again for appearance number six. He and LHR will list out what they believe are the Celts top five free agent targets this summer. Who Boston probably wants; who they should want; who they should stay away from. What free agents will get a deal that teams will regret some ten ...
Jun 05, 2016•1 hr 3 min
With the fate of the Boston Celtics in the 2016 NBA Draft now sealed, Brad Stevens, Danny Ainge, team management and everyone else now know what the Celtics have on their hands as they enter the summer of 2016: Three first-round draft choices including the third overall as well as $50+ million dollars of cap space. So therefore, we can now finally preview the 2016 NBA Off-Season. Sean Grande, Celtics radio play-by-play for 98.5 FM The Sports Hub in Boston will do so with Larry H. Russell. Sean a...
May 29, 2016•1 hr 2 min
The 2016 NBA Draft Lottery has yielded the third overall selection for the Boston Celtics...courtesy of the Brooklyn Nets. Boston held serve for the first time in a while. Should fans and team executives be disappointed at the lack of lottery luck? Jeff Goodman of ESPN is back on Celtics Beat to breakdown the coming NBA Draft and lay out all the scenarios for the Celtics. Goodman gives a rundown and scouting reports on all potential draftees for the Celts, and lays out scenarios and his own pred...
May 22, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Time for the unofficial official 2015-16 Season in Review show for the Boston Celtics. It was still a bit too fresh from their loss to the Atlanta Hawks to do it two weeks ago, and there was still a lot to take away from that particular postseason series in the Eastern Conference Quarter-Finals. But now, it’s time... Mike Gorman, Celtics play-by-play announcer returns to the show and joins LHR to run through the entire 2015-16 campaign on the 157th edition of Celtics Beat. The Celtics’ voice wil...
May 15, 2016•1 hr
