Celtics Regular Season News

[Goldstar88]

Now that it's official that Jaylen Brown didn't make the All-Star Game, I've got the Boston Celtics about $1.5M clear of the luxury tax. They have three standard spots to fill. A prorated vet minimum deal runs around $441K if signed on Thursday. Slightly more if signed before.

Keith Smith

Sucks for JB, but good for the team. I will take it.

[Celtics2021]

Now that it's official that Jaylen Brown didn't make the All-Star Game, I've got the Boston Celtics about $1.5M clear of the luxury tax. They have three standard spots to fill. A prorated vet minimum deal runs around $441K if signed on Thursday. Slightly more if signed before.

Keith Smith

Here’s a thread with details of the situation.

https://forum.celticsstrong.com/index.php?topic=106190.0

[Vermont Green]

Now that it's official that Jaylen Brown didn't make the All-Star Game, I've got the Boston Celtics about $1.5M clear of the luxury tax. They have three standard spots to fill. A prorated vet minimum deal runs around $441K if signed on Thursday. Slightly more if signed before.

Keith Smith

Here’s a thread with details of the situation.

https://forum.celticsstrong.com/index.php?topic=106190.0

I am pretty much resigned to the fact that this is our team for the year.  We will round out the roster of course but it doesn't look like we are going to add anything other than some deep bench depth.

[Ed Monix]

A lot of people have asked about the Boston Celtics filling out their roster:

Boston has to sign at least two more players to standard contracts. Teams can only drop below 14 players on standard contracts for up to two weeks at a time. Boston will have to add two players by 2/24.

Keith Smith

[Jiri Welsch]

A lot of people have asked about the Boston Celtics filling out their roster:

Boston has to sign at least two more players to standard contracts. Teams can only drop below 14 players on standard contracts for up to two weeks at a time. Boston will have to add two players by 2/24.

Keith Smith

Interesting. Hopefully at least one wing!

[Ed Monix]

Imagine:

“The Boston Celtics would like to announce the signing of Ime Udoka & Damon Stoudamire on veteran minimum contract’s.”

[Celtics2021]

Imagine:

“The Boston Celtics would like to announce the signing of Ime Udoka & Damon Stoudamire on veteran minimum contract’s.”

Not at all allowed, so it’s a weird thing to imagine.

[Surferdad]

A lot of people have asked about the Boston Celtics filling out their roster:

Boston has to sign at least two more players to standard contracts. Teams can only drop below 14 players on standard contracts for up to two weeks at a time. Boston will have to add two players by 2/24.

Keith Smith

Interesting. Hopefully at least one wing!

Hopefully it happens in time for the new players to be available for the Nets game on Thursday.  Nice to have a C's-related event to look forward to this week while waiting for the next game.

[Goldstar88]

4 seems a tad high for power rankings, but I will take it NBA.com!

(4)
Boston Celtics
Last Week: 7 ↑

Record: 34-26

Pace: 97.3 (24) OffRtg: 110.3 (18) DefRtg: 104.9 (2) NetRtg: +5.4 (4)

The Celtics went into the break with a confounding loss to the Pistons, which ended both their nine-game winning streak and their streak of six straight games holding their opponent under a point per possession. Obviously, in regard to the defense, it’s noteworthy that they were missing both Marcus Smart and Robert Williams III. And the Celtics’ destruction of the Sixers on Tuesday improved them to 12-7 in games against the other teams in the East’s top eight. That’s the best record (and the most games played) within the group, and they’ll begin their post-break schedule with a visit to Brooklyn.

The aforementioned defense (best in the league by a huge margin as they’ve won 11 of their last 13 games) is the main fuel behind the Celtics’ rise from 11th to sixth in the Eastern Conference. But the offense has also been improved, and the improvement has come with more passing. The Celtics rank seventh in ball movement since Christmas (348 passes per 24 minutes of possession), up from 17th prior to that (322).

Three numbers to know…

1. The Celtics’ starting lineup – Smart, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Al Horford and Williams – has outscored its opponents by 26.5 points per 100 possessions, the best mark among 24 lineups that have played at least 200 minutes together It’s allowed just 88.8 points per 100, the best mark among 63 lineups that have played at least 100 minutes together.

2. The Celtics are 34-26, with the point differential (+5.4 per game, best in the East) of a team that’s 42-18. That’s the league’s biggest differential between a team’s “expected” wins and its actual wins. They have the league’s fifth worst record (11-18) in games that were within five points in the last five minutes and lead the league with four losses in games they led by double-digits in the fourth quarter.

3. The Celtics have switched 40% of ball-screens, the league’s highest rate (and up from 29% last season), according to Second Spectrum tracking.

Week 19: @ BKN, @ DET, @ IND

https://www.nba.com/news/power-rankings-2021-22-week-19

[slamtheking]

anyone hear anything regarding Smart's recovery for Thursday's game so far?

[colincb]

Despite the dogs they've played during this stretch, this is pretty remarkable.

Taylor Snow @taylorcsnow 28m

NBA defensive rating leaders over the past month 1. Celtics: 96.2 2. Thunder: 106.4 3. Heat: 106.6 4. Cavaliers: 108.5 – – 25. Kings: 116.6 Reason the Kings are included is to show that the difference between No. 1 and 2 (10.2) is the same as the difference between No 2. and 25

[droopdog7]

anyone hear anything regarding Smart's recovery for Thursday's game so far?

I would be surprised if it was anything other than 2-4 weeks

[Goldstar88]

Haven’t heard of either of these players. 

Shams Charania: The Boston Celtics are planning to sign forwards Malik Fitts and Kelan Martin to 10-day contracts, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Fitts spent time with Jazz this season; Martin played in 27 games for Pacers. – via Twitter ShamsCharania

[DefenseWinsChamps]

Kelan Martin a former Butler Bulldog

[Surferdad]

Haven’t heard of either of these players. 

Shams Charania: The Boston Celtics are planning to sign forwards Malik Fitts and Kelan Martin to 10-day contracts, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Fitts spent time with Jazz this season; Martin played in 27 games for Pacers. – via Twitter ShamsCharania

Me either, but will the C’s just hand out a series of 10-days to various players for the rest of the season?  That seems strange, unless they really think one or both of these guys has enough upside to possibly stick.