{"id":510950,"date":"2026-01-02T02:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/510950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:27:17","slug":"rookie-wing-hugo-gonzalez-is-the-boston-celtics-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/510950\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie wing Hugo Gonzalez is the Boston Celtics secret weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Gonzalez is the Boston Celtics secret weapon. Or at least that is the point of view of the folks behind the &#8220;NBA News&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip taking a closer look at the Celtics&#8217; No. 28 pick of the 2025 NBA Draft and what he has shown for Boston so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>They get into how Gonzalez was projected to go as high as a top-five pick in the draft at one point before slipping to the Celtics, what caused the slide, how he has fit into Boston&#8217;s culture and style of play, his time playing in Europe for Real Madrid and what goes into his gritty, high-motor approach to basketball on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about why Gonzalez has been the Celtics secret weapon so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire:<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\/2026\/01\/01\/rookie-wing-hugo-gonzalez-is-the-celtics-secret-weapon\/87985477007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rookie wing Hugo Gonzalez is the Celtics secret weapon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rookie wing Hugo Gonzalez is the Celtics secret weapon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Gonzalez is the Boston Celtics secret weapon. Or at least that is the point of view of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,3528,6,71478,3263],"class_list":{"0":"post-510950","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-hugo-gonzalez","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-secret-weapon","16":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115823145761790269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510950","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=510950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}