{"id":37080,"date":"2025-02-25T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=37080"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:48:11","slug":"kristaps-porzingis-has-a-special-relationship-with-boston-celtics-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=37080","title":{"rendered":"Kristaps Porzingis has a special relationship with Boston Celtics fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Star\u00a0Boston Celtics\u00a0big man Kristaps Porzingis has a special relationship with his team&#8217;s fans. The Latvian center helped bring the first NBA title to the city since the Ubuntu-era Celtics back in 2008, and his absolute, evident joy at playing for a team in the mix for another chip is evident whenever he steps foot on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It is a rare contest indeed when KP doesn&#8217;t have something positive to say about the ball club he plays for now, and yet he is honest in his assessments of how they perform on the parquet on a game to game basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The folks behind the official &#8220;Boston Celtics&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip celebrating the ties Porzingis has with Celtics fans. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kristaps Porzingis has a special relationship with Celtics fans | New England Connection\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wnTnp9UrOjE?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":37082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37080","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 - 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