{"id":511123,"date":"2026-01-02T04:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:36:19","slug":"rookie-wing-hugo-gonzalez-is-the-celtics-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511123\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie wing Hugo Gonzalez is the Celtics secret weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<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>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\"> https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/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":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[59,72,7,45,75,3798,46,98,74,71,86,6,12,62,67,68,84,61,81,66,83,73,69],"class_list":["post-511123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-boston-celtics","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-draft","tag-entertainment","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-online","tag-online-video","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-u0026","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115823652692346789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511123","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=511123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}