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Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics Crowd RANKS #1 in NBA Survey | Jaylen Brown & Derrick White OVERLOOKED

Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Boston Celtics fans earn the dual title of most passionate—and most obnoxious—according to The Athletic’s annual NBA player survey. Can this fierce energy keep pushing the team toward greatness, or is the reputation a double-edged sword? John Karalis of Celtics On SI unpacks exclusive player insights on everything from the league’s hardest defenders (with Victor Wembanyama dominating votes and Derrick White as Boston’s lone honorable mention) to which NBA city tops the dreaded “no-trade” list. This episode breaks down where Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Derrick White, and Payton Pritchard rank among the NBA’s most underrated, and why no Celtics players made the overrated list. Karalis explores player-driven ideas for rule changes like overtime Elam endings and hockey-style subs, plus whether tanking is truly a problem or just overblown hype. Don’t miss this candid analysis of league narratives, Celtics roster impact, and what player perceptions mean for Boston’s future.

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0:00.0

NBA players speak. They said a lot. And you, yeah, you're about to get a big compliment.

0:20.7

Hey, welcome back to the show.

0:21.5

I'm John Corrales.

0:23.2

Today's show, we're looking at the athletics player survey, something they do every year.

0:28.9

It's an anonymous survey done by the reporters all across the athletic.

0:33.4

Take advantage of their great numbers.

0:35.6

And they ask players anonymous questions like who's going to be the MVP,

0:40.3

who's going to win the championship, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

0:43.0

And they have some interesting results.

0:47.9

So later on, we'll get to some, I love this one, the no trade cities.

0:53.7

And this concept of, hey, no one wants to play in Boston and blah, blah, blah.

0:58.5

No, that's, we'll dispel that in the third segment, plus some rule changes.

1:05.3

In the second segment, underrated, overrated players and where Celtics kind of fell on that.

1:10.4

Let's start right at the top.

1:13.2

And the question here, again, this is all at the athletic.

1:16.8

Who has, which arena has the most passionate fans and which arena has the most obnoxious fans?

1:24.7

And wouldn't you know it?

1:25.9

Both of them, TD Garden. that is a huge compliment for you

1:30.3

you are passionate and obnoxious and that just sums up Boston in a nutshell uh celebrate that

1:40.0

take it in honk your horn if you're driving just pump your fist and i bet you the person next

1:45.0

you knows what you're talking about the TD garden that has the most passionate fans 20 so 161 players

1:53.7

let's let's also get this out there it's not like they pulled all the players.

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