Celtics’ 2023 Summer season League roster is coming into focus with just a few new faces

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The Celtics summer time league roster will reportedly characteristic 2023 second-round choose Jordan Walsh.

Boston Celtics guard JD Davison in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks, Sunday, April, 9, 2023, in Boston.
JD Davison will play for the Celtics as soon as once more through the 2023 Summer season League. (AP Photograph/Steven Senne)

Despite the fact that Boston has not drafted a first-round prospect within the final three years, the Celtics’ roster for the 2023 Summer season League will nonetheless characteristic a variety of intriguing children on the court docket in Las Vegas.

The Celtics’ squad, which shall be coached by assistant Tony Dobbins, shall be headlined by Boston’s final two draft picks in JD Davison (2022) and Jordan Walsh (2023), per The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach. 

Celtics guard Justin Champagnie and Maine Celtics guard Kamar Baldwin will even be featured on the roster, together with a few new additions.

In keeping with Himmelsbach, Boston is including 7-foot-1 Polish heart Aleksander Balcerowski to the roster. Balcerowski performed for Gran Canaria within the Liga ACB, Spain’s prime professional league, final season. With Gran Canaria, Balcerowski averaged 9.2 factors and three.4 rebounds per contest in 2022-23.

Boston has been making an attempt so as to add the 22-year-old huge man to their Summer season League roster for the previous few years, Himmelsbach notes.

Mychal Mulder, who averaged 11 factors per sport as a rookie with the Warriors in 2019-20, can also be reportedly becoming a member of Boston’s staff. Different additions embody ahead Justin Bean, who averaged 10.2 factors and 6.9 rebounds with the Grizzlies’ G League affiliate final season, together with guard Jay Scrubb, a 2020 second-round choose by the Brooklyn Nets.

The Celtics’ Summer season League schedule was launched final Friday:

  • Saturday, July 8 at 3 p.m. vs. Miami Warmth (NBA TV)
  • Sunday, July 9 at 7:30 p.m. vs. Washington Wizards (NBA TV)
  • Wednesday, July 12 at 10 p.m. vs. Los Angeles Lakers (ESPN2)
  • Friday, July 14 at 7 p.m. vs. New York Knicks (ESPN2)

All begin instances are EST. Boston will even play a fifth sport out in Las Vegas, however a date and time has but to be introduced.