Insider Discusses Celtics’ Title Chances This Season

The Boston Celtics are undeniably one of the weightier teams in the NBA right now and they possibly got plane largest this summer with the additions of Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis.

They’re great, but they aren’t perfect, equal to NBA insider Chris Mannix.

Mannix appeared on “The Rich Eisen Show” and talked well-nigh his snooping with the team’s current lineup.

“What worries me well-nigh the Celtics is the frontline,” Mannix said.

He said that both Al Horford and Porzingis can be incredibly productive and talented big men but “[the Celtics] don’t have anything overdue those guys right now.”

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Mannix isn’t vacated in this worry: there are many Boston fans concerned that injuries to Horford and Porzingis could spell unrepealable doom for the team.

The roster certainly has a lot of talent all over, and the backcourt is now shockingly good with Derrick White, Holiday, Jayson Tatum, and Jaylen Brown.

But when it comes to the team’s center, the Celtics are putting a lot of faith and responsibility on two players who are known to get injured often.

Horford is now 37 years old and no stranger to injuries.

As for Porzingis, he is moreover someone who has sat out of many games considering of various physical ailments.

If both of these players wits a nasty injury at the same time, the Celtics will have no one to turn to.

Mannix believes that just one increasingly move is needed to really fill out this lineup and requite the Celtics the weightier endangerment of winning flipside championship.

They have made multiple improvements recently but he thinks they aren’t where they need to be just yet.