{"id":464499,"date":"2025-10-14T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464499"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:31:48","slug":"al-horford-opens-up-on-celtics-exit-i-think-the-warriors-will-be-my-last-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/al-horford-opens-up-on-celtics-exit-i-think-the-warriors-will-be-my-last-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Horford opens up on Celtics exit: \u201cI think the Warriors will be my last team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1501\" data-end=\"1825\">After seven years across two stints with the <strong data-start=\"1546\" data-end=\"1564\">Boston Celtics<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1566\" data-end=\"1580\">Al Horford<\/strong> didn\u2019t expect to move on. But <strong data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1645\">Jayson Tatum\u2019s Achilles injury<\/strong> and Boston\u2019s roster reshuffle changed everything. \u201cBoston is home, but they weren\u2019t in a position to give me what I wanted \u2014 a chance to win again,\u201d Horford told <em data-start=\"1808\" data-end=\"1822\">The Athletic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"2081\">At 39, Horford cited both financial and competitive motivations, noting that the departures of <strong data-start=\"1922\" data-end=\"1938\">Jrue Holiday<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1943\" data-end=\"1965\">Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is<\/strong> signaled a shift in direction. \u201cIt was tough, but my family and I prayed on it. Joining Golden State felt right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2386\">Now a <strong data-start=\"2089\" data-end=\"2100\">Warrior<\/strong>, Horford praised the support from <strong data-start=\"2135\" data-end=\"2152\">Stephen Curry<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2157\" data-end=\"2175\">Draymond Green<\/strong>, who personally reached out to recruit him. \u201cThey wanted me here \u2014 it just felt right.\u201d As he adapts to <strong data-start=\"2280\" data-end=\"2296\">Steve Kerr\u2019s<\/strong> system, Horford hopes San Francisco will be his final stop: \u201cYeah, I think this is it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2388\" data-end=\"2436\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2388\" data-end=\"2410\">Source: The Athletic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran big man reflects on leaving Boston and embracing a new challenge in Golden State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Golden-State-Warriors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464499"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464499"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464499"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}