The Boston Celtics will enter the 2024-25 season as the overwhelming favorites to once again represent the east in the NBA Finals. Not only do they deserve that title as the defending champions, but at the time of this writing, the Celtics appear to have the deepest and most balanced roster in the conference.
Boston will spend the year as the team to beat until proven otherwise, a mantle plenty of other clubs are also gunning for. The conference has a number of bona fide contenders as well as another of teams knocking on that door. There are also a few franchises who are positioning themselves to land the No. 1 overall pick in next season’s draft, with Cooper Flagg projected to be available. For the Celtics, that means this upcoming regular season will see a very wide range of competition. But we can still do our best to make sense of the landscape in the east.
Over the next few weeks, Celtics Wire will take a closer look at Boston’s biggest competitors next season and try to project the team’s biggest foes in the Eastern Conference in 2024-25. First up, the Brooklyn Nets.