Mon, Aug 24, 2026
No transactions, contracts or coaching news broke, and there was no follow-up to owner Bill Chisholm's Aug 22 comments about buying TD Garden. The closest thing to real news was Payton Pritchard confirming an informal Celtics minicamp already underway in California with Paul George, Mike Conley, Derrick White, Sam Hauser and Jayson Tatum, and saying Tatum is “looking good” and should be “stronger and more explosive” nine months after his Achilles tear — the only fresh injury-adjacent detail of the day. Everything else was aggregation of one Brian Windhorst podcast segment questioning whether Paul George can stay healthy, plus retrospectives and betting-odds filler.
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Pritchard told CLNS's Bobby Manning that an informal Celtics minicamp is running in California with himself, Derrick White, Paul George, Mike Conley, Sam Hauser and Tatum. Asked about Tatum nine months after his Achilles tear, Pritchard said “He's looking good” and expects him to be “even stronger and more explosive.”
ESPN's Brian Windhorst, on The Hoop Collective, said of George: “There's no way to predict what Paul George is going to do... I have no idea how he's gonna hold up.” George hasn't played more than 41 games in either of the last two seasons; Brad Stevens called him “one of the more impactful players with regard to winning” and a good fit.
Nikola Vucevic, who spent time around the Celtics, says there was no rift between Tatum and Brown and that the hard part was fitting a supporting cast around two max players. Retrospective commentary, not new reporting.
Celtics Wire examines the internal efficiency numbers reported to have factored into Boston's decision to move Brown to Philadelphia, arguing the front office may have leaned on them alongside the financial motive.
Cenac's college coach at Houston predicts the Celtics draftee will develop into a floor-spacing big: “He's got a great release, and the ball comes off his fingertips with a good rotation and a good arc, and he's a worker.”
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