Boston Celtics 2020-21 individual players grades: Marcus Smart

While injury likely kept him from a third consecutive NBA All-Defense team nod, Smart still had a strong season overall.

Now that the 2020-21 Boston Celtics season is firmly in the rear-view mirror, it’s possible to spend some time taking stock of how each player did with the opportunity he had.

To that end, we are grading every player who put in time on the basketball court for the Celtics this season, including all 15 members of the regular roster, both two-way players and the players the team cut or traded away. That’s 21 players altogether, and today’s focus is veteran guard Marcus Smart. The Flower mound native had a mixed bag of a year individually, but his team had arguably never needed the mix of skills he can bring to the table more than in 2020-21.

Let’s review how his season went with the Celtics, in context.