{"id":596201,"date":"2026-02-11T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:21:49","slug":"celtics-star-shares-wild-college-basketball-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596201\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Star Shares Wild College Basketball Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA doesn\u2019t have many serious rivalries nowadays, as players are too friendly and change teams too often to build real animosity towards each other.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not the case in college sports, however, where school rivalries are alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Boston Celtics center <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/celtics-star-shares-hilarious-fan-interaction-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Garza<\/a>, who was a four-year starter for Iowa in college. He played all the big schools in the Big Ten, including Michigan State.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s been nearly five years since he graduated and was drafted to the NBA, he still harbors severe mistrust of his former rivals.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent episode of Derrick White\u2019s \u201cWhite Noise\u201d podcast, Garza <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitenoisepod_\/status\/2018493940593291465\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared a wild conspiracy theory<\/a> about MSU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luka Garza thinks Michigan State intentionally gives the road team the worst rim in the second half \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my conspiracy theory\u2026 it\u2019s the worst rim in college basketball. The other team comes in the second half and can\u2019t buy a bucket.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mF8N3bCKwW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mF8N3bCKwW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 White Noise Podcast w\/Derrick White (@whitenoisepod_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitenoisepod_\/status\/2018493940593291465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Michigan State purposely puts the basket that they\u2019re gonna shoot on in the first half on that side on purpose. Because it\u2019s just like, the rim, you have to swish it, or it doesn\u2019t go in,\u201d Garza explained. \u201cSo I think they do it to themselves so they\u2019re down in the first half, and then they come back in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we\u2019d go there, it was the same story, and this is my conspiracy theory,\u201d Garza continued. \u201cBut it\u2019s the worst rim in college basketball, and they only shoot on it in the first half. So the other team comes in in the second half and can\u2019t buy a bucket, and they always come back and win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting theory, and perhaps one that deserves further investigation. The Spartans have always been tough to beat under Tom Izzo, however, especially at the Breslin Center, so it could be tough to prove.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA doesn\u2019t have many serious rivalries nowadays, as players are too friendly and change teams too often&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,17915,3491,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-596201","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-luka-garza","14":"tag-michigan-state-spartans","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116050561794803484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596201","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=596201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}