{"id":438460,"date":"2023-06-24T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438460"},"modified":"2023-06-24T07:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:21:33","slug":"marcus-smart-says-farewell-to-celtics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/marcus-smart-says-farewell-to-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Smart says farewell to Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following his transfer to the Memphis Grizzlies, Marcus Smart took a moment to bid emotional farewell to his long-time club the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>Smart joined the Celtics in 2014 as the No.6 pick in the draft and has enjoyed a glamorous career at Boston, becoming a leader of one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to Boston as a naive kid from Dallas not really knowing what to expect,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cAll I knew was the type of work ethic my momma instilled in me and I was going to work my a&#8211; off and make sure I EARNED the respect of each and every one of the fans in Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite not winning a championship during that period, Smart doesn&#8217;t consider his span there as a failure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Goodbyes are hard. <br \/>But the future is exciting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hULgrVXkmi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hULgrVXkmi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; marcus smart (@smart_MS3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smart_MS3\/status\/1672338094463352837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He stated that he is looking forward to joining the Grizzlies and is fully ready for the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his transfer to the Memphis Grizzlies, Marcus Smart took a moment to bid emotional farewell to his long-time club the Boston Celtics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438461,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,18957,16884],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18062,20036,17838],"acf":{"announce":"The 29-year-old spent 9 years at Boston, becoming integral part of the team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438460"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438460"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}