Boston Celtics: Looking deeper into the rookies after Summer League
By Adam Taylor
Following a painful ending to a disappointing season, the Boston Celtics chose to draft 4 rookies with one trait in common … work ethic.
The undertone of the Boston Celtics‘ 2018-19 NBA season is that the team gave up. There was far too many individual agendad instead of a team mentality with everyone pulling in one direction.
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While this may or may not be true, it led to the Celtics drafting four rookies who seem to posses high work ethic with a team-first mentality.
With three of those four picks falling outside of the lottery, fans across the world were curious to see what the newest members of this Celtics team had to offer.
Each of these players had been able to affect games at the collegiate level, they also did enough during team workouts to convince the Celtics to draft them.
Now their first taste of professional basketball is “under their belts” its time to look a little deeper at what they can potentially bring to the table next season.
All stats used within this article are obtained from; Cleaning the glass, Synergy, RealGM and NBA.com.