Celtics Roll Out Bizarre Starting Five Against Struggling Bucks

The Boston Celtics are rolling out a starting five on Wednesday that looks like it was drawn out of a hat. According to Underdog NBA, Boston is starting Derrick White, Hugo Gonzalez, Paul George, Sam Hauser, and Neemias Queta against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Jayson Tatum and his team-leading 27 points per game are nowhere to be found in this opening group. When your primary scorer and rebounder vanishes from the starting card, it completely scrambles the betting board and leaves fantasy managers staring blankly at their screens.

Boston is sitting comfortably at 5-2 and third in the Eastern Conference, but they are coming off an ugly 109-93 loss to the Houston Rockets on Monday. White only managed seven points on 25 percent shooting in that one. Now he is being asked to steer the offense alongside George and a frontcourt pairing of Hauser and Queta.

The real punchline here is the opponent. The Bucks are currently a catastrophic 1-6, sitting near the absolute bottom of the East. Boston throwing out this heavily rotated, spacing-heavy lineup feels less like a strategic masterclass and more like a public insult. It is the NBA equivalent of showing up to a street fight in flip-flops because you know the other guy cannot throw a punch.

We will see how this perimeter-heavy experiment looks when the ball tips on Wednesday night. If White bounces back and this makeshift unit runs Milwaukee off the floor, the Bucks might need to just forfeit the rest of November.