{"id":732485,"date":"2026-05-12T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:18:22","slug":"the-boston-celtics-got-good-news-from-the-2026-nba-draft-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732485\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics got good news from the 2026 NBA Draft lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Celtics Wire;\" href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Celtics Wire\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Justin Quinn, Celtics Wire<\/p>\n<p>Updated Tue, May 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_celtics_wire_473\/81d52c003227fe8f4b15284b088b9f8b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics got good news from the 2026 NBA Draft lottery<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics got good news from the 2026 NBA Draft lottery. Or at least that is the point of view of the folks behind the &#8220;Still Poddable&#8221; YouTube channel, who put together a clip from their show taking a closer look at how the draft lottery this year ended up giving Boston some good news despite the fact that the Celtics did not have a pick in the lottery at all \u2013 nor anywhere near it!<\/p>\n<p>The claim is a good one, and comes from the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Pacers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> losing what would have been one of the best picks in the draft, only stymied by an odd approach to protecting their pick sent out in their trade for <a data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> big man Ivica Zubac.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about how Boston lucked out via the Pacers having a bum outcome from the lottery balls.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire: <a data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a data-ylk=\"slk:The Celtics got good news from the 2026 NBA Draft lottery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2026\/05\/12\/the-celtics-got-good-news-from-the-2026-nba-draft-lottery\/90042506007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Celtics got good news from the 2026 NBA Draft lottery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Quinn, Celtics Wire Updated Tue, May 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM UTC The Boston Celtics got good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,75,559,126,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,249,3263],"class_list":["post-732485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics","tag-clippers","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft-lottery","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116562277510211186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732485","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=732485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}