From Giannis to Jock Landale: Every Big Man Option for the Celtics This Offseason

The Celtics have some big questions to answer this offseason. After back-to-back disappointing exits in the playoffs, Brad Stevens and the front office are likely to make significant changes in order to bolster the roster and thrust them back into legitimate title contention.

And whether it’s a Giannis trade or a less explosive move, the Celtics need to improve their front court.

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Coming into the 2025-2026 season, the Celtics center rotation was viewed as being one of the worst in the league. While Neemias Queta showed the world that was a horrendous assessment that he is a capable and even high-level starting center, it was a disaster showing from not just Queta, but all of the Celtics’ big men in the first-round matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers.

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To be fair to Queta, it was his first playoffs, and a bad series doesn’t erase an incredible regular season, nor does it mean he can’t continue to develop and stamp himself as one of the league’s more stable and impactful centers. That being said, for the Celtics to compete at the highest level, upgrading the big man room is a priority.

I think the context of the current league landscape as it pertains to big men is important. When you examine the elite teams over the last few seasons, most of them employ high-level big men. Victor Wembanyama and Nikola Jokic sit alone at the mountain top and are the engines of their teams’ dominance. Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein provide an elite defensive floor and ceiling for the Oklahoma City…

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