Category: Summer League/preseason

Known Celtics ref-complainer Grant Williams gets in some run in that role for Boston’s summer league squad

Celtics assistant coach Ben Sullivan related it’d be good for Williams to get a better feel for what the refs he is so vocal in challenging have to do.

The media caught wind of an unusual sight during an open practice session for the Boston Celtics‘ Las Vegas Summer League squad ahead of a press conference about the same on Tuesday — Celtics forward Grant Williams serving as an ad hoc referee.

The known ref-complainer found himself on said duty to gain a greater appreciation for the craft according to assistant coach (and Las Vegas Summer League head coach) Ben Sullivan. “It’s good for Grant to see how hard officiating actually is so that when he is hard on them, he can have a better perspective,” explained Sullivan.

Asked if Williams was given as hard of a time as he gives the refs with the script flipped on the Tennessee product, the Celtics Sin City coach replied in the negative.

“No one can give him as hard a time as he gets the refs,” he quipped.

Boston’s 2022 Las Vegas Summer League action kicks off on Saturday, July 9 at 5:30 pm ET, and you can view the action live on NBA TV.

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FULL 2022 Boston Celtics Las Vegas Summer League roster announced

On Tuesday, the Celtics announced their full Las Vegas Summer League roster.

As has been the annual tradition (save of course for the height of the pandemic), the Boston Celtics are assembling a Las Vegas Summer League squad to get in some run at the 2022 Sin City exhibition series, and on Tuesday morning, the team announced their full roster for the Nevada friendlies we all love to put far too much stock into.

There were plenty of familiar faces assigned to it we expected to be on the summer league team, a stashed floor general making the trip back stateside for another go at making a roster spot in the NBA, and a few new names to learn more about in the coming days and weeks.

Let’s see who will be this year’s Vegas Summer Celtics.

Celtics to have assistant coach Ben Sullivan helming Boston’s Las Vegas Summer League team

The former Bucks assistant will lead the Celtics’ 2022 Sin City contingent.

The Boston Celtics announced that assistant coach Ben Sullivan will helm the team’s Las Vegas Summer League team in an announcement circulated to the media on Monday afternoon, a change from last season’s Sin City contingent being helmed by fellow Celtics assistant coach Joe Mazzulla.

With some shake-ups hitting Boston’s coaching staff after the departures of assistants Will Hardy and Evan Bradds to the Utah Jazz as the latter follows the former to Sal Lake City with the Jazz’ hire of Hardy as their next head coach, we can expect some shifting of roles and perhaps some new hires. Some analysts speculated that the posting could contribute to who gets the mantel as Celtics head coach Ime Udoka’s next lead assistant after Hardy’s exit.

The opportunity at the minimum will be an opportunity for Sullivan to show off his head coaching chops, perhaps putting him in a position to expand the Udoka coaching tree in the future.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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Celtics reportedly signing undrafted Providence guard AJ Reeves to Las Vegas Summer League roster

Reeves is a native of Roxbury.

The Boston Celtics are signing Roxbury, Massachusetts native AJ Reeves to play with their Las Vegas Summer League squad this month, according to Hoops Rumor’s JD Shaw. The undrafted Providence point guard will play for the Celticsi Sin City team with a thinner than anticipated backcourt rotation after stashed Israeli floor general Yam Madar elected to sit out summer league to focus on European opportunities in the short term and third-year wing Aaron Nesmith was dealt to the Indiana Pacers.

Reeves is a capable guard with some size who put up 9.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game last season with the Friars while shooting 37.3% from beyond the arc.

His efficiency overall is still a bit of a concern at a career 37.8% with the Friars (a large part of why he likely went undrafted).

But, Reeves will have a chance to make the case for Boston or some other team using a two way deal on him while helping to shore up the Celtics’ summer league depth next week.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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Former Celtics center Tacko Fall to join Danny Ainge’s Utah Jazz summer league squad

With Danny Ainge at the helm of the Jazz, a Tacko Fall summer league reunion is coming.

The NBA’s 2021-22 season saw more than one Boston Celtics-inflected reunion, and the 2022 offseason will see one more. It will not, however, be taking place on the Celtics’ roster. Per Andscape’s Marc J. Spears, former fan favorite big man Tacko Fall will be joining the Utah Jazz’ Las Vegas Summer League.

The Jazz are now helmed by former Boston President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge, with their current CEO the head of the team that signed Fall as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Central Florida in 2019.  With the Jazz thin in their frontcourt after Ainge did his thing, trading center Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Fall has a decent chance to play his way onto Utah’s roster as a depth option in their frontcourt.

Since leaving Boston, Fall signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers on a two way deal, averaging 1.1 points and 2.1 points with the parent club, and 23.3 points, 12.5 boards, and 3.0 blocks per game with the Canton Charge, Utah’s G League affiliate.

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Boston’s Aaron Nesmith reportedly plans to join Celtics’ 2022 Las Vegas Summer League squad

After a season with limited opportunity to grow his game, the Vanderbilt product may want a shot to see some real burn.

The Boston Celtics‘ 2022 Las Vegas Summer League roster may be about to get considerably more dangerous with the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach reporting that third-year reserve small forward Aaron Nesmith may elect to join the Celtics’ Sin City squad in the NBA’s annual offseason exhibition series held in Nevada.

The Vanderbilt product saw his floor time opportunities shrink considerably in the 2021-22 season with a focus on contention and several more veteran players eating up any opportunity for the South Carolina native to see the floor. The concurrent and likely related regression in his shooting did not help his cause either, making the unusual third-season summer league bid make some sense to get more high-level play under Nesmith’s belt.

Nesmith saw his number drop from 4.7 points and 2.8 rebounds per game in his rookie season to 3.8 points and 1.7 boards per contest while his shooting dipped from a solid 37% from deep to just 27%, so a play to work on his confidence in his stroke is not a terrible plan.

Summer league play for Boston in Nevada kicks off in Las Vegas on July 9, and runs roughly two weeks depending on whether participating teams make the summer league playoffs.

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Celtics Lab 126: Las Vegas Summer League and team building options with Tom Westerholm

This episode, we dive into Sin City exhibitions and teambuilding with a glace back at the 2022 NBA draft.

The Boston Celtics are done with the 2022 NBA draft and have since turned their attention to the annual Sin City exhibition series better known as Las Vegas Summer League, with a familiar stashed floor general joining some of the younger players on Boston’s roster along with a handful of undrafted free agents left over from this year’s draft.

They also need to sharpen their focus on the looming free agency period set to kick off on the night of Thursday, June 30 armed with their $6.4 million mini-mid level exception and a host of traded player exceptions (TPEs) including several of consequence. What can we expect to see from the Celtics as the 2022 offseason hits its peak over the next two weeks?

To answer these questions, we recruited the help of Boston.com’s Tom Westerholm and came away feeling pretty positive about where Boston is sitting heading into next season.

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We even touch on conspicuously liked tweets making the news for all the wrong reasons and try our hand (incorrectly, it turns out) at prognosticating where former Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving might be playing come October.

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Join your usual hosts Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn as we look ahead to the high points of a hopefully impactful Celtics offseason.

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Full Boston Celtics 2022 NBA Summer League schedule and broadcast

This is when you can catch the Celtics playing in this offseason’s Las Vegas Summer League.

The dust has hardly settled on the Boston Celtics losing Game 6 and the title with it to the Golden State Warriors in the 2022 NBA Finals, but there’s already Celtics basketball on the schedule for you hardcore Boston basketball fanatics to put down on your calendar.

As has been the longstanding offseason tradition save for the thick of the pandemic, the Celtics will be fielding a squad in this year’s Las Vegas Summer League. Boston will field a team in the annual Nevada exhibition series, and play a total of four games with a few “revenge” games built in for good measure if you can call each club’s young players and signing hopefuls representative rosters.

Lower level of competition aside, the Celtics faithful have plenty to get excited about if green and white uniforms playing (technically) NBA basketball is your thing; let’s take a look at when Boston will play in the 2022 NBA Summer League.