Celtics have reportedly proven curiosity in Austin Rivers

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Boston seems to be out there so as to add depth at guard.

Austin Rivers has performed within the NBA for 11 seasons. (AP Photograph/Lynne Sladky)

A member of the Rivers household might be making their strategy to Boston.

Longtime NBA guard Austin Rivers continues to be looking for a house and the Celtics are amongst those who have proven curiosity in him, The Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn reported.

Boston doesn’t essentially have a urgent want for a guard, nevertheless it did half methods with one this offseason. The Celtis traded Marcus Sensible, together with Danilo Gallinari and Mike Muscala, for Kristaps Porzingis and two first-round picks in June.

Whereas the Celtics have three NBA-caliber level guards in Derrick White, Malcolm Brogdon, and Payton Pritchard, they haven’t added a guard to switch Sensible’s spot on the roster this offseason. The one backcourt transfer Boston has made this offseason was signing 2022 second-round decide JD Davison to a two-way contract.

Rivers, who turns 31 in early August, would determine to be a depth piece for the Celtics and an end-of-the-rotation sort of participant. Washburn famous he’ll doubtless solely obtain a veteran minimal’s contract at this level.

Rivers has been a journeyman for a lot of his 11 seasons within the league, however he’s produced in some capability with every of the seven groups he’s performed for over time. His most up-to-date cease was in Minnesota, enjoying 52 video games with the Timberwolves this previous season after he signed a one-year cope with them within the offseason. He scored 4.9 factors and 1.4 assists plus 1.6 rebounds per sport, capturing 43.5 % from the sphere and 35 % from deep. He averaged 19.5 minutes per sport.

Many Celtics followers doubtless know of Rivers due to his father, Doc, who was the top coach of the Celtics for 9 seasons and helped them win an NBA title in 2008. However the youthful Rivers really had a really transient stint with the Celtics as soon as prior to now. He was traded to the Celtics from the Pelicans in the midst of the 2014-15 season in a three-team commerce that noticed Jeff Inexperienced get moved to the Grizzlies. Nonetheless, the Celtics traded Rivers to the Los Angeles Clippers three days later, reuniting him together with his father.

Rivers has averaged 8.5 factors, 2.1 assists, and two rebounds per sport in his profession.

Boston reportedly additionally confirmed curiosity in veteran level guard John Wall, attending his non-public exercise in Las Vegas earlier in July. Whereas Wall has instructed groups he’s prepared to tackle a backup position, scouts believed he was “uneven” and that he may’ve been in higher form, in response to Washburn.