{"id":681143,"date":"2026-03-27T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:02:20","slug":"did-christian-gonzalez-send-patriots-cryptic-message-at-celtics-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681143\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Christian Gonzalez send Patriots cryptic message at Celtics game?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Patriots<\/a> cornerback Christian Gonzalez turned heads when appearing on the Jumbotron at Wednesday’s NBA game between the Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

The Pro Bowl defensive back rubbed his hands together and appeared to do a money gesture. Granted, there might not be any meaning behind the gesture whatsoever, but it came at a time when the Patriots<\/a> are believed to be eyeing a potential massive contract extension for Gonzalez, who is entering the fourth year of his rookie deal.<\/p>\n

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The Patriots will have the chance to exercise his fifth-year option if they fail to agree on a deal this year. One would think the strategy for New England would be getting a deal done as quickly as possible, given the growing price that it might take to extend one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL.<\/p>\n

And Gonzalez clearly knows his worth.<\/p>\n

A recent report suggested that the Patriots had “preliminary conversations” with Gonzalez<\/a> about a contract extension at the NFL Scouting Combine.<\/p>\n

The team has clearly made re-signing their star defender a priority, and it’s something they are already preparing for, according to Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt’s no secret we’d like to keep Christian Gonzalez and I don’t know what the timing of that is, but that’s something that certainly we’re preparing for,” Wolf told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Patriots Wire: Did Christian Gonzalez send Patriots cryptic message at Celtics game?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez turned heads when appearing on the Jumbotron at Wednesday’s NBA game between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,62499,6,8771,6547,179],"class_list":["post-681143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-celtics","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-christian-gonzalez","tag-nba","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116298445912091562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681143","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=681143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}