These Boston Celtics may already be among the NBA's elite teams on defense. The Celtics were already a very good ball club on that side of the court last season, and signed the best offensive rebounding big man in the league away from the New York Knicks in Mitchell Robinson.
And on the same day, while they lost an All-NBA caliber star in Jaylen Brown, they got back a player who is arguably a better defender than the Georgia native, vet forward Paul George. There is also the internal development of the younger players who were already on the roster to consider. Taken with what we have seen from Boston in preseason play to date, and it is clear that this iteration of the Celtics could already be one of the best defensive teams in the NBA this season.
The hosts of the "How Bout Them Celtics!" podcast, Jack Simone and Sam LaFrance, took some time on a recent episode of their show to talk over just how good this team is on defense.
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