'Celtics City' and the History of an Iconic Franchise. Plus, Director Lauren Stowell on Telling the Story of the Boston Celtics.

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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The Ringer’s Michael Pina and Howard Beck sit down to give their thoughts on the new nine-part documentary series, 'Celtics City,' on HBO. They discuss how their perspectives were shaped after the documentary, what Celtics season they would’ve liked to have covered, whether their opinion on anyone changed, and much more. Then, Wosny Lambre sits down with the director of 'Celtics City,' Lauren Stowell, to discuss how Lauren got involved with the project, interviewing legends like Larry Bird and Kevin Garnett, handling the perception of the city of Boston, and more. Hosts: Michael Pina, Howard Beck, and Wosny Lambre Guest: Lauren Stowell Producers: Isaiah Blakely and Ben Cruz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to a special episode of The Ringer NBA show, maybe the most special episode in this feeds history.
0:15.0	I'm Michael Pina, a senior staff writer at The Ringer, and today I'm joined by one of my most esteemed colleagues fellow ringer senior
0:22.2	staff writer and co-host of the real ones podcast the one and only Howard back Howard it's always
0:29.8	lovely to see you how you doing today uh great to see you thank you for calling me esteemed
0:34.0	i feel very esteemed today so uh ready roll. It's the most perfect adjective I could
0:39.9	come up with. On today's show, we'll be having a conversation about the new nine-part documentary
0:46.1	series, Celtic City, which premieres on Max on March 3rd, and is produced by HBO sports
0:52.4	documentaries, ringer films, and words and pictures.
0:55.3	It's executive produced by our boss Bill Simmons, along with his 30 for 30 co-creator Conor
1:00.2	show.
1:01.0	Later in this episode, our buddy was is going to interview the director of Celtic City,
1:06.5	Lauren Stoll, which you'll definitely want to stick around for.
1:09.9	Until then, enough with the preamble.
1:13.2	Howard, you and I both watched this documentary and enjoyed it very much. We also come to this
1:18.1	from two very different sides of the spectrum. I was born and raised in Boston. I grew up a Celtics
1:24.5	fan, and despite covering the NBA professionally for over a dozen years,
1:30.8	I still have what some, like yourself, might call a psychotic emotional attachment to the team.
1:38.5	Meanwhile, you are someone who grew up in California very much not a fan of the Celtics.
1:43.3	So let's start the conversation there.
1:46.0	How would you just describe your lifelong relationship to slash opinion of this franchise
1:52.8	and why have you always been super jealous of their fan base?
1:57.6	Yeah, the subtext there, of course, is that you and I have had many go-rounds of this over the years that we've known each other through multiple places that we've worked where I have to tweak you a little bit about it staying so attached to your Celtics fandom because I am completely emotionally detached from any and all NBA franchises, players, coaches, teams, cities.
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