2025-2026 NBA Eastern Conference Odds: Can the Celtics Contend?

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00:00still taking a look at the early odds for the eastern conference chaos really flipped upside

00:05entering 2025-26 around the association drs we've talked the calves the knicks the magic

00:12now let's talk to boston celtics who at this point last year like plus 200 plus 150 to win

00:19the eastern conference we'll talk about that as it pertains to the oklahoma city thunder out west

00:24in just a little bit the celtics even without jason tatum and now dealing drew holiday

00:29are still a very talented team that in an eastern conference where basically all the front runners

00:35have some sort of fatal flaw should be a contender at least a playoff team with an opportunity

00:42to make a run how do you view that plus 550 price on boston i like it because again you're right

00:49there's still talent there and you're not getting the plus 200 price and they're getting decent quality

00:53players back which they did for drew holiday but that guy's more of a locker room guy and you wonder

00:57how that fits in but if you're trusting the process here for the celtics like we usually put a time

01:03on okay won't be back for a year tatum got injured much earlier than what we're talking about tyrese

01:07halibur and the reason i bring that up is we put so much stock on the regular season doesn't matter

01:13it's all about the playoffs so what if i told you yesterday like tatum has a very good rehab like he

01:18didn't even wait two weeks three weeks to get his surgery he got injured the night before got his

01:22surgery the next morning let's just say he's up on his feet ben by i don't know late february next

01:29year like getting good workouts here can make it to the playoffs and in a round or two you get tatum

01:33back like not at 100 mvp level but a good player added back into that rotation because if you are

01:39going to move poor zingas and by the way you got nothing out of poor zingas in this playoff run with

01:43sickness and injury whatever he had if you turn that into a quality basketball player as well who knows

01:48where now you might be saying to yourself like yes it doesn't sound appetizing to take the boston

01:53celtics to start the season knowing tatum won't be there but if this is about we don't care about

01:57anything and we're a playoff ready squad and tatum gets added back into the equation in the playoff run

02:02next year why not in this eastern conference it's not a great conference