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Brett Siegel: Number of National TV games for 2025-26 NBA season (ESPN, ABC, NBC, & Amazon): Atlanta: 13, Boston: 25, Brooklyn: 2, Charlotte: 3, Chicago: 3, Cleveland: 24, Dallas: 23, Denver: 26, Detroit: 16, Golden State: 34, Houston: 28, Indiana: 9, Los Angeles Clippers: 21, Los Angeles Lakers: 34, Memphis: 10, Miami: 5, Milwaukee: 18, Minnesota: 28, New Orleans: 2, New York: 34, Oklahoma City: 34, Orlando: 14, Philadelphia: 14, Phoenix: 9, Portland: 8, Sacramento: 9, San Antonio: 22, Toronto: 2, Utah: 2, Washington: 2

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Sources told FastbreakJournal.com that Boston entered the offseason focused on shedding salary and had struggled to find a trade partner for Anfernee Simons’ contract since acquiring him in the Jrue Holiday trade. Simons remains a trade candidate to monitor.

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Sources also indicated that the Celtics have maintained a realistic perspective about where each player stands with the organization amid their focus to shed salary, expressing that it’s not guaranteed either player would begin the season in Boston. Niang was later moved.

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Jason Beede: The NBA confirms the complete Group Play schedule for the NBA Cup 2025 will be released Wednesday afternoon. A reminder, the #Magic are in Group B with Boston, Detroit, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. The league will also share some games that’ll be streamed on Amazon Prime.

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Sources say Utah plans to keep veteran big man Georges Niang after reacquiring Niang this week in a trade with Boston.

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The expectation persists, furthermore, that Boston will continue to invite trade discussion involving Anfernee Simons from now through next season's trade deadline on Feb. 5 at 3 PM ET.

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“You have to be there to have a sense of what’s going on, and I’m not,” he starts. “I get the impression that [coach Joe] Mazzulla did a good job and had their attention. But in the playoffs, in my experience, the best team wins. There are upsets occasionally, but I have no understanding of how the Celtics could collapse, especially against the [expletive] Knicks. As the Knicks proved in the next round, they were not a legitimate contender." Many of us blamed the loss on Boston’s overreliance on 3-point shooting. “I like the three as a weapon, but not as the first [expletive] option,” Cousy says. “It’s always going to be there for you. It’s not something you have to create. You’re going to have it when you want it. So why eliminate the other options?"

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Marc Stein: Pep Guardiola: "The NBA has always been important in my life." Also in Palermo tonight: City's boss lauded Boston for extending the contract of friend Joe Mazzulla -- "I love it" -- and named Stephen Curry, Luka Dončić and LeBron James as his favorite modern players post-MJ.

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The Boston-based group reportedly offered a record $325 million to buy the team, while Lamont has said the Connecticut group’s offer is in that range. Today, he said he’s hoping to win over Silver. “Connecticut's right there as the birthplace of women’s basketball, I think we’re near the top of the list,” he said at the capitol.

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Jake Fischer: The two second-round picks Boston is sending Utah as part of the Georges Niang-for-RJ Luis Jr. trade are the 2027 most favorable between the Celtics/Magic, and the 2031 most favorable between the Celtics/Cavaliers, per source.

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The guess from me at this point would be that the Celtics keep that final roster spot open for the tax savings. That would leaves Boston’s roster at 13 healthy players with Tatum out but the team also has three two-way players that can come up at any point for depth purposes if other injuries hit.

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The Mohegan Tribe’s ambition to sell and relocate the Connecticut Sun to Boston for a record $325M has created tension within the league office, sources said, leading to a terse WNBA statement Saturday that the nine cities who lost recent expansion bids “currently have priority over Boston” and inferring that the Tribe could be forced to sell to one of those cities instead. Those sources said that the Sun, over recent months, has shunned other cities that have inquired about buying the team -- refusing to take meetings with bidders outside of Boston, for instance -- and “hasn’t been great in how they have handled” the prospective sale. “They just don’t feel like the league has any control over their process,” the source said. “It will get much worse before it gets better.”

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Gary Washburn: The WNBA released a statement to the Globe regarding the potential of a Connecticut #Sun relocation to Boston: “Relocation decisions are made by the WNBA Board of Governors and not by individual teams. As part of our most recent expansion process, in which three new franchises were awarded to Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia on June 30, 2025, nine additional cities also applied for WNBA teams and remain under active consideration. No groups from Boston applied for a team at that time and those other cities remain under consideration based on the extensive work they did as part of the expansion process and currently have priority over Boston. Celtics’ prospective owner Bill Chisholm has also reached out to the league office and asked that Boston receive strong consideration for a WNBA franchise at the appropriate time.”

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WNBA basketball could be in Boston permanently by 2027 as a Boston-based group led by Celtics minority governor Steve Pagliuca has reached a deal with the Mohegan Tribe to move the Connecticut Sun to TD Garden, according to multiple sources involved in the transaction.

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