{"id":369123,"date":"2025-10-26T21:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/369123\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:19:14","slug":"why-hugo-gonzalez-is-the-real-deal-for-the-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/369123\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hugo Gonzalez is the real deal for the Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a> have been clamoring for more playing time for rookie forward Hugo Gonzalez after seeing what a whirlwind of frenetic energy the Madrid native can be on both ends of the court, and for good reason. Gonzalez comes to Boston a seasoned professional compared to most rookies given his previous time spent playing for Real Madrid in the Liga ACB and Euroleague.<\/p>\n<p>That prior time playing behind a number of veteran players &#8212; many of whom had previously played in the NBA &#8212; prepared Boston&#8217;s 2025 first round pick to be a meaningful contributor almost from the moment he arrived in the states.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the &#8220;Nik NBA&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip highlighting what it is that Gonzalez beings to the Celtics. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes:<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/10\/26\/why-hugo-gonzalez-is-the-real-deal-for-the-celtics\/86918753007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Hugo Gonzalez is the real deal for the Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why Hugo Gonzalez is the real deal for the Celtics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of the Boston Celtics have been clamoring for more playing time for rookie forward Hugo Gonzalez after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,57650,3528,6,445],"class_list":{"0":"post-369123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-frenetic-energy","14":"tag-hugo-gonzalez","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-real-madrid"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115442559466147087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}