{"id":17638,"date":"2024-12-15T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:32:16","slug":"what-is-behind-payton-pritchards-breakout-season-with-the-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=17638","title":{"rendered":"What is behind Payton Pritchard&#8217;s breakout season with the Boston Celtics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It really was not all that long ago that current\u00a0Boston Celtics\u00a0NBA Sixth Man of the Year candidate Payton Pritchard was trying to force his way onto another NBA roster to earn playing time for himself. Now, it seems like the Celtics can hardly afford to have him on the bench any longer than they already do, given just how much of a force the Oregon native has been coming off the bench for Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What is behind Pritchard&#8217;s breakout season with the Celtics? Is it simply a bigger opportunity to fill roles that Boston needs him to in a big way? Or has his skill finally caught up with his confidence at the NBA level this season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Host of the &#8220;You Got Boston&#8221; podcast on the CLNS Media network Noa Dalzell took some time on a recent episode of her show to talk it over. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Payton Pritchard&#039;s breakout season | You Got Boston w\/ Noa Dalzell\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hgwLU1bXQ4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If you enjoy this pod, check out the &#8220;How Bout Them Celtics,&#8221; &#8220;First to the Floor,&#8221; &#8220;Celtics Lab,&#8221; and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>usatoday.com wants to ensure the best experience for all of our readers, so we built our site to take advantage of the latest technology, making it faster and easier to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is behind Payton Pritchard&#039;s breakout season with the Boston Celtics? 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