Reacting to your Celtics Hot Takes

We’re 24 hours out. A day away from tangible, real, meaningful Boston Celtics basketball gracing the court and our screens for the first time in 170 days. With that, there’s only one thing to do.

I invited Feed followers to exorcise all of their excitement and angst by sharing their “Hot Takes” about the upcoming Celtics season. Let’s analyze the spiciest of those takes, judge how likely they are to come true, and get ourselves riled up one last time before we embark on that long journey to Banner 19.

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The Team Takes

“The Celtics finish top five offensively and top three defensively.” Celtics_fan_in_va

Starting us off, we need to address the elephant in the room. It can be difficult to come up with a truly spicy take when your subject is Joe Mazzulla’s Boston Celtics. Read through 90% of team sites, forums and local media, and a top-five finish on both ends would be suitably hot. UV protection required.

Dig into the data from Joe’s previous iterations of the Celtics and the take starts to feel a little frosty. Check out Boston’s finishes in offensive and defensive rating from 2022–23 through 2025–26, Joe’s full tenure as head coach.

Season

Offensive Rating

NBA Rank

Defensive Rating

NBA Rank

2022–23

117.3

2nd

110.6

2nd

2023–24

122.2

1st

110.6

2nd

2024–25

119.5

2nd

110.1

4th

2025–26

120.0

2nd

111.7

4th

In each of Mazzulla’s four seasons at the helm, Boston has finished comfortably inside the top five offensively, while ranking no lower than fourth defensively. In fact, according to NBA.com, Boston became the first team since turnovers were tracked in 1977 to finish in the top five on both ends in four consecutive seasons.

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Nothing is a certainty in the modern NBA, particularly with injuries, but with no true emerging giant joining the ranks of Oklahoma City and San Antonio, I think it’s completely reasonable to expect Boston to rank in the top three defensively and top five offensively in 2026–27.

“Boston go 40-1 at home.” Eaglemike

Now that’s a take! Across four seasons, Boston is 127–37 (.774) at home. During the championship season in 2023–24, the C’s went 37–4 at TD Garden, one of the best home…

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