Inside the NBA’s 2025-26 Gamble: Which Teams Will Rise to Glory or Crash and Burn?
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Boston Celtics
Best-case scenario: Jayson Tatum’s rehab goes off without a hitch. Jaylen Brown, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard look fantastic, taking advantage of the opportunity to assume more ball-handling and scoring responsibility by continuing to develop their games … which, as luck would have it, does not preclude the Celtics from being bad! The C’s slip out of the postseason picture, landing a lottery pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, and Brad Stevens moves Anfernee Simons and/or Sam Hauser, avoiding the apron and loosening up the roster-building restrictions to give himself some wiggle room for wheeling and dealing as Boston prepares to mount a return to contention in 2026-27.


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