{"id":616555,"date":"2026-02-21T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616555\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:33:47","slug":"can-the-boston-celtics-win-the-eastern-conference-for-the-2025-26-nba-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616555\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Boston Celtics win the Eastern Conference for the 2025-26 NBA regular season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can the Boston Celtics win the Eastern Conference for the 2025-26 NBA regular season? At first glance, the 5.5 game lead currently held by the first place <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Pistons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Pistons<\/a> looks like a bridge too far for the Celtics to overcome before the end of the season in middle of April. But the Pistons will be without a key player for several more games thanks to a fight that saw several of Detroit&#8217;s players suspended, and Boston might soon have Tatum back.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have a similar strength of schedule for the rest of their respective campaigns with Tankathon putting the Celtics at No. 6 overall and the Pistons at No. 8, so it would take a major run from Boston at the same time a Detroit stumble of sorts would be required.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind the &#8220;NESN&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip from their &#8220;Boston Has Entered the Chat&#8221; podcast on this very question. Check it out below!<\/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\/02\/21\/can-the-celtics-win-the-east-for-the-2025-26-nba-regular-season\/88800139007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Can the Celtics win the East for the 2025-26 NBA regular season?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Can the Celtics win the East for the 2025-26 NBA regular season?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can the Boston Celtics win the Eastern Conference for the 2025-26 NBA regular season? At first glance, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,75,296,188,3860,1409,6,297,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-616555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pistons","16":"tag-tatum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116111003571204274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616555","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=616555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}