Marcus Good particulars curler coaster of feelings after Celtics commerce

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“I’ve cried due to the particular relationship I’ve with the blokes.”

After spending near a decade in Boston, Marcus Good was understandably shocked to study the Celtics dealt him to Memphis as a part of a three-team commerce final month.

Boston’s longest-tenured participant and emotional chief has confused the enterprise side of basketball in his varied interviews following the commerce. If Boston needed to amass a gifted frontcourt choice like Kristaps Porzingis, a helpful asset like Good wanted to go, particularly after the framework of one other swap involving Malcolm Brogdon fell by means of. 

However the 29-year-old guard nonetheless took the information arduous after the Celtics in the end traded him to the Western Convention.

Shortly after holding his introductory press convention as a member of the Memphis Grizzlies, Good opened as much as Chris Vernon of Grind Metropolis about his instant response to the surprising commerce. 

“I did cry,” Good advised Vernon. “I’ve cried. I’ve cried due to the particular relationship I’ve with the blokes. I grew up with Jayson [Tatum] and Jaylen [Brown] their entire profession, all of these different guys, even Al [Horford]. Like I mentioned earlier than, a variety of these guys, Al, Jaylen, Jayson and people guys, when my mother handed away they had been there. They’ve been by means of robust instances with me so it was robust. Not solely that, I’ve been there my entire life in order that was robust.”

Regardless of being shipped off from one of many prime contenders within the Japanese Convention, Good ought to thrive on a stingy, upstart staff just like the Grizzlies.

Even with star guard Ja Morant suspended for the primary 25 video games of the 2023-24 season, a Memphis roster that includes Good, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Desmond Bane ought to make life depressing for opposing offenses. 

Good’s management might be a welcome and steadying presence on a Grizzlies squad that already has the expertise in place to grind its technique to a deep playoff run.

“I additionally cried as a result of I used to be excited as effectively as a result of I get to start out a brand new journey in my life,” Good mentioned. “I’ve carried out the whole lot I might do with that staff. Jaylen and Jayson are nice gamers and now it’s their time to develop into their very own. That’s okay, that’s what it’s but it surely was robust leaving these guys.”

Throughout his presser in Las Vegas, Good added that Celtics followers’ emotional response to the commerce was anticipated, given what he witnessed on this market over the earlier 9 years.

“The fan response within the metropolis of Boston was precisely what I anticipated it to be and what anyone who’s performed in Boston would count on it to be. It’s all love,” Good mentioned. “And so they experience for town arduous, man. Similar to Memphis, proper? And that’s the way it ought to be. You’re alleged to experience in your metropolis like that. So it’s all love, so I wasn’t stunned by that.”