{"id":829195,"date":"2026-09-06T08:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/829195\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:15:21","slug":"why-the-celtics-are-the-winners-of-the-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/829195\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Celtics are the winners of the Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Boston Celtics are the secret winners of the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> – Kawhi Leonard scandal. Or at least that is the point of view of the folks behind the “Backyard Buckets” YouTube channel, who put together a clip taking a deep dive into how the salary cap circumvention scandal plaguing team owner Steve Ballmer and the Clippers front office may actually turn out to be a boon to fans of the Celtics.<\/p>\n

This is of course due to the fact that the Celtics are likely to land a first round pick for the 2028 NBA Draft from Los Angeles that could see the potential value of the selection rise. This is as a result of the more probably routes the team will take to prepare for the future in he wake of the league’s punitive response to said scandal.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about why this could be the case for Boston fans.<\/p>\n

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YouTube: https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 5, 2026, 12:55 p.m. ET The Boston Celtics are the secret winners of the Los Angeles Clippers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[72400,7,45,75,3798,46,6,90394,72493,72494,72404,72934,73765,72932,72413,72570,72666,72406,72403],"class_list":["post-829195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-celtics","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-nba","tag-sourceceltics-wire","tag-sstssportsnbaceltics","tag-sstsnceltics","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-tagkawhi-leonard","tag-taglos-angeles-clippers","tag-tagnba-draft","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117223104473990568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829195","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=829195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}