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Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast

Havlicek Stole the Pod

On Havlicek Stole the Pod, we go deep into the details, finding compelling narratives, data, stories and interviews you won"t find anywhere else.

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01:06:39

Sussing out the Celtics in the East order at the...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/02/20

All-Star Week is now behind us, and the Boston Celtics and the wider NBA turn their attention to the stretch run and the postseason beyond. Which Eastern Conference ball clubs are contenders, pretenders, or somewhere further down the hierarchy of the East?Taking into account the moves made by these teams and their general health (and predilection for accumulating lottery odds while we're at it), the hosts of "Havlicek Stole the Pod" took some time to assess the order of the Eastern Conference now

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01:11:17

Gambling! Expansion! Tanking! Everything the NBA is...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/02/14

The Boston Celtics and the NBA have taken the week off for the league's 2026 All-Star Week proceedings, opening the door for all manner of debates about how the league conducts business as is often the case in the absence of games that count to talk about. But with a few of those issues rising to greater prominence than usual for better or worse this season, some of these debates have become especially polarized.We are of course talking about the discourse surrounding gambling in the NBA, teams

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01:09:08

Who should we expect the Boston Celtics to sign (and...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/02/08

The 2026 NBA trade deadline has passed and the dust has started to settle on the many moves made by the Boston Celtics and the rest of the league ahead of the annual cutoff on moving players between teams. This week, the Celtics dealt Anfernee Simons for Nikola Vucevic, and then moved Chris Boucher, Xavier Tillman Sr., and Josh Minott with only two way player John Tonje coming back. Did we mention that Boston got below the luxury tax without using a first round pick to get there from what would have

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00:20:34

Reacting to the Celtics Nikola Vucevic - Anfernee...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/02/04

The Boston Celtics have traded former Portland Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons for Chicago Bulls big man Nikola Vucevic, and the move has landed with mixed reactions from fans and analysts alike. On one hand, Boston was able to minimize the risk of losing Simons in free agency for nothing as an unrestricted free agent this summer while also creating a traded player exception (TPE) they can use down the road to add a long-term solution at the 5.Did we mention they also got a center who can play a

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01:03:26

What Boston Celtics trade rumors should we watch at...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/01/30

The 2026 NBA trade deadline is less than a week away, and the Boston Celtics will have some tough decisions to make ahead of it. Add in the news that star Celtics forward Jayson Tatum may actually NOT return this season after all, and what Boston's playoff picture (and what they should do to improve it) got a little murkier as a result.But some things remain constant, such as the Celtics needing an upgrade in their frontcourt, and some more ballhandling on the bench might also be a concern. At the

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01:15:10

The trial of whether the Celtics should trade...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/01/23

The Boston Celtics have a tough decision to make ahead of the 2026 NBA trade deadline when it comes to whether they will retain the services of Anfernee Simons. The Celtics dealt for the former Portland Trail Blazers guard this offseason when they moved on from vet guard Jrue Holiday due to cap and perhaps age concerns.The assumption at that time was that Simons was likely to be a short-timer with the Celtics given his large, expiring contract and seemingly ill fit with Boston to start the 2025-26

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00:29:24

Are there any realistic big man trade targets out...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/01/16

Are there any realistic big man trade targets out there for the Boston Celtics ahead of the 2026 NBA trade deadline? The Celtics find themselves a ball club of note tied to a number of trade candidates just weeks before the last day in the league calendar teams can swap players. Some of them are sexy names with dubious availability and other concerns, like Jaren Jackson Jr., and Ivica Zubac of the Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Clippers, respectively.Others are perhaps more likely to be dealt but

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00:57:40

Contending with Boston Celtics narratives at the...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/01/13

The NBA is roughly midway through the 2025-26 NBA season, and with that passage comes some clarity on what teams really are compared to what we thought they were heading into their current campaigns, particularly the Boston Celtics. Plenty of preseason and early-season narratives have become clearly incorrect, Others have emerged to take their place, but have yet to be proven -- and some will need the rest of the regular season and then some to test.We know the Celtics aren't tanking, ethically or

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01:06:21

Which NBA teams are contenders, pretenders, and what...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/01/09

The Boston Celtics have a top-five Most Valuable Player candidate in Jaylen Brown and have cracked home court advantage in the Eastern Conference standings. The San Antonio Spurs have made the Oklahoma City Thunder look mortal again, but also lost to the Brooklyn Nets. The Cleveland Cavaliers appear to be frauds, and the hot start of the Detroit Pistons is slowing down while the Denver Nuggets are somehow staying afloat despite a number of injuries.At the midway point of the 2025-26 NBA regular

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01:14:19

What do we think the Boston Celtics will do at the...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2026/01/03

The Boston Celtics and the rest of the NBA are closing in on the midway point of the 2025-26 NBA regular season, and the players who signed new deals this offseason are becoming available to be dealt or will be soon. And with that, the rough outline of how the season might play out (and what teams can do to change those outcomes via trades) is coming into focus.Teams that don't have the horses to compete for titles will need to make hard choices under the current, punitive collective bargaining

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00:58:01

Checking on the gap year teams as Pacers, Celtics...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/12/24

The Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers play each other twice this week, but the parallels between the two Eastern Conference ball clubs go beyond the home-and-away series. Both teams were seen as so-called 'gap year' teams heading into the 2025-26 NBA regular season after their stars Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton went down in the 2025 NBA Playoffs with Achilles tears.They are having very different seasons so far, but they both might be looking to trade for the same or similar players at the 2026

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00:50:21

The new Robert Parish biography ‘The Chief’ and why...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/12/19

Hall of Fame Boston Celtics big man Robert Parish has a reputation as one of the most guarded NBA stars of his era, and it is a not a reputation without merit, the intense criticism the Louisiana native went through early in his career set the tone for his stoic persona on and off the court. But in recent years, Parish has opened up to help tell the story of the team he won three of his four titles with -- and now, to tell his own story.Working alongside co-author Jacob Uitti, Chief (as the Celtics

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01:17:43

How did the Celtics lose to the Bucks (and what's up...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/12/13

How did the Boston Celtics lose to the Milwaukee Bucks (and what is going on with Giannis Antetokounmpo)? The Celtics dropped a game to the Bucks this past Thursday (Dec. 11) night at Fiserv Forum to the tune of 116-101, and to make matters worse, Milwaukee was without their star forward, Antetokounmpo on the sidelines for the next several games at least while he rests a calf strain.How did it happen? Does it change our opinion about Boston's hot start? And what do we know about Giannis wanting out

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01:01:02

What we think about the Celtics early-season success...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/12/12

The Boston Celtics elected to take a season star forward Jayson Tatum would be out much or all of the campaign to rehab a torn Achilles tendon to retool the roster, get younger, cheaper, out of the second apron and towards dodging the repeater tax, knowing the team would part ways with much of the core they won a title with in 2024. But then something weird happened -- the Celtics kept winning games even with players like Jrue Holiday, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis, and Luke Kornet playing for

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79:28

How the NBA can lessen injuries, bring Jayson Tatum...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/12/05

The Boston Celtics know as well as any ball club in the NBA the importance of keeping your star players healthy after losing star forward Jayson Tatum to an Achilles injury that transformed their title window. But as we have seen around the NBA, it is not just Tatum dealing with serious injury this season. Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers, Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers, and others are currently working their way back from the same injury, and many other star players are riding

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46:37

Celtics face a tough stretch, and what we're thankful...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/11/26

The holidays are upon us as the Boston Celtics gear up for one of the toughest stretches of their 2025-26 NBA regular season schedule, with games against some of the best Eastern Conference teams set to go down over the next week. And Thanksgiving falls right smack in the middle of that gauntlet for Boston. Will fans of the team be celebrating their success with a mighty feast, or drowning their sorrows in comfort food and family time?Either way, there's a lot to be thankful for if you are a fan

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65:31

How the Pistons got good, why the Celtics look better...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/11/20

The last time the Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons crossed paths, the Celtics were seen as a team leaning into development for the season and the Pistons an interesting ball club projected to end up somewhere in the middle of a weaker Eastern Conference milieu. Then the two teams played, and Detroit center Jalen Duren had what then seemed like an outlier game with 24 points and 18 rebounds in a 119-113 Pistons victory Boston might have won had it been able to keep up on the boards.But as we near

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65:39

Larry Bird, Boston ghosts, Celtics grail stories y...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/11/14

The Boston Celtics are the winningest team in the history of the NBA, and with that success comes a lot of historic moments that left indelible marks on our collective consciousness over the years. But with that success has also come a fair share of heartbreak that can only come from coming right up to the edge of winning it all and falling short.These are the sort of moments that famed NBA writer and cultural historian Shea Serrano evokes in his new tome "Expensive Basketball," out as of late

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82:14

Early slumps, defensive woes: The Celtics, Magic, the...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Beset with shooting slumps early in the season, trying to play faster and struggling with the results, and running into issues integrating new players are early-season road bumps that the Boston Celtics are trying to contend with (pun unintended) to start their 2025-26 campaign, but we could also easily be talking about the surprisingly underwhelming start of the Orlando Magic this season as well.And these two Eastern Conference ball clubs will take the court at Kia Center this Friday, Nov. 7, to

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90:25

On injuries, contention, coaching ties, and Celtics...

Havlicek Stole the Pod NBA Basketball Podcast ·

2025/10/31

Injuries and the collective bargaining agreement are impacting the early seasons of the Boston Celtics and Houston Rockets both, if in different ways. And these two teams will collide for the first time in the NBA's 2025-26 regular season this weekend as Boston hosts the Rockets at TD Garden this Saturday (Nov. 1). What can we expect from a Houston - Boston tilt without Fred VanVleet and Jayson Tatum? How are their respective seasons going so far -- and why? And what does a successful season look

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