Share this: Ah, yes, it’s time for basketball again. The 2016-17 NBA season officially tipped off Tuesday with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ championship celebration and win over the New York Knicks, but for the Boston Celtics, their campaign begins Wednesday night against the Brooklyn Nets at TD Garden. And there are a lot of expectations for these 2016-17 Celtics, as the oddsmakers like their chances to be the second team in the Eastern Conference, behind only the Cavs. Hear a preview of the Celtics’ upcoming season in the video from “NESN Sports Today,” presented by People’s United Bank, above. Click for Celtics season preview >> Click for NBA season preview >> More Stories Source link
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Celtics Rank With Spurs, Raptors In ESPN’s Tiers Of NBA Teams For 2016-17
Share this: There’s no doubt expectations are high this season for the Boston Celtics. The Celtics’ over/under for regular-season wins is 52.5, and they have the fourth-best odds to win the NBA Finals at +1800, according to Bovada. The only teams Bovada projects to win more games than the C’s are the Warriors, Cavaliers, Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers, and only Golden State, Cleveland and San Antonio have better odds to win the championship. And in the latest sign that Boston is projected to be a real contender this season, ESPN’s Zach Lowe has the Celtics ranked with the Spurs and Toronto Raptors as the “Best of the Rest,” trailing only the Warriors, Cavaliers and Clippers. Lowe did offer some potential pitfalls for the Celtics, though.
Red Sox Notes: Yoan Moncada Will Get Day Off To ‘Rebuild And Regroup’
Yoan Moncada’s long-awaited Boston Red Sox debut has gotten off to a slow start. The third baseman came into the second half of the Major League Baseball season as the league’s top prospect, so the expectations understandably were high when he made his first appearance on Sept. 2. Moncada was hot, too, going 4-for-10 with a double, an RBI and three runs in his first three games. Then the 21-year-old showed his biggest weakness: strikeouts. Moncada made the jump from Double-A to the bigs despite striking out in 30.9 percent of his at-bats in Portland. And after posting a golden sombrero in Tuesday’s 5-1 win over the San Diego Padres, Moncad... NESN.com
Red Sox Notes: David Price’s Start Vs. Yankees Not Terrible, But Not Up To Expectations
David Price’s latest outing against the New York Yankees on Sunday could have been much worse. The Boston Red Sox starter gave up a whopping 11 hits in the Bronx, walking one with only one strikeout over 5 2/3 innings, but he minimized the damage to just three runs, a two-run deficit the Red Sox’s offense should have been able to come back from. In short, Price wasn’t bad. But the Red Sox are expecting him to be great. Price was leaving pitches over the plate, and the left-hander couldn’t nail down a put-away pitch. After the game, he was forced to harp on the same thing he has all season: execution. “Even when I
How Lionel Messi, Argentina Exceeded Copa America Expectations In Win Over Venezuela
FOXBORO, Mass. — Lionel Messi and Argentina mean business at Copa America 2016, and soccer fans near and far are thankful. Argentina thrashed Venezuela 4-1 in a Copa America 2016 quarterfinal game on Saturday at Gillette Stadium. Gonzalo Higuain scored two goals in the first half, and Messi and Erik Lamela struck in the second period. Venezuela’s hopes of mustering a shocking comeback following Salomon Rondon’s 70th minute goal ended instantly when Lamela notched his goal just one minute later. The result and Argentina’s performance justified the lofty expectations most of the 59,183 in attendance had for the most high-profile Gillette Stadium h...