I'd rather have him over Javonte Green.
green is averaging 7.8 minutes a game, and many of those are garbage time minutes.
what leads you to believe that turner would like to return to the celtics when his minutes would be very limited since he would be playing behind tatum, brown, and hayward?
he is most certainly not a ball handler, so he would not replace wannaker.
As a deep bench player, I’d much rather have Turner on a playoff roster. In the event of an injury to any of about 6 players (Walker, Smart, Wanamaker, Hayward, Brown, and Tatum), Turner could slot into the rotation. And given how the first 3 months of the season have played out, it feels unlikely we’ll make it through the playoffs without missing at least one of the aforementioned on most nightsz. Meanwhile, despite being continually down 1-2 guards and wings in lower leverage regular season games, Javonte still can’t get off the bench.
As for would Turner choose to come to Boston — if he got offered a starting/6th man role somewhere else, I’m sure he’d take it if he felt that offer to be legit. But in the absence of that, he clearly had a very good experience in Boston and a good rapport with Brad, as well as Ainge. And Stevens did a great job of rehabbing Turner’s free agent value last time around — heading into free agency again, why wouldn’t he want to let Brad show the league how to properly use him?