{"id":589803,"date":"2026-02-08T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/589803\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:44:15","slug":"ex-celtics-superstar-rooting-for-patriots-in-super-bowl-lx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/589803\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Celtics Superstar Rooting For Patriots In Super Bowl LX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots have seen plenty of notable people voice their support ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/tag\/super-bowl-lx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Super Bowl LX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Wahlberg and Kenny Chesney made special appearances in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/patriots-super-bowl-hype-video-features-whos-who-of-boston-icons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">club\u2019s hype video<\/a>. Kendall Jenner let everyone know <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/patriots-owner-dismisses-kardashian-curse-after-kendall-jenners-super-bowl-pick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">who she thought was going to win<\/a> last week. Tom Brady finally succumbed to the pressure and <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/tom-bradys-robert-kraft-message-shows-possible-change-of-heart-in-super-bowl-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">put out an underwhelming statement<\/a> of support on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Al Horford <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LosTalksPats\/status\/2020173024406958166?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">added his name<\/a> to the list on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPats all the way! I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s like a 28-24 type of score,\u201d Horford said following his club\u2019s victory over the Phoenix Suns, as seen on Amazon Prime. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll be that many points because the defenses \u2014 both of them are really good. I just want a Pats win, ultimately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horford, who previously spent seven seasons with the Boston Celtics, has developed a fandom for all local teams and continues to support them despite having moved on to play for the Philadelphia 76ers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots will look to make their former colleague proud in Sunday\u2019s matchup with the Seattle Seahawks, with kickoff from Levi\u2019s Stadium scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots have seen plenty of notable people voice their support ahead of Super Bowl LX.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[869,7,45,75,3798,46,6,13349,43159],"class_list":{"0":"post-589803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-super-bowl","16":"tag-super-bowl-lx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116033189637249412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589803","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=589803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}