New SB Nation mock draft sees Celtics pick up a shorter, defense-first floor general

Undersized point guards with a knack for defending are a historical focus of the Celtics in recent drafts — but will it be moving forward?

As the 2022 NBA trade deadline inches closer to arriving this Feb. 10 at 3 pm ET, attention for fans of the Boston Celtics begins to turn in the NBA media sphere towards the other primary tool used in building up teams for the future, the 2022 NBA draft.

While still many months away in the future, teams at the NCAA level and in other professional leagues are starting to get into the meat of their own respective schedules, giving us our first chunks of meaningful data to analyze where the potential prospects to populate this year’s NBA draft are at in terms of their personal development as players.

And to that end, another mock draft projecting who the Celtics might pick up in the 2022 draft has been released, this one from SB Nation’s Ricky O’Donnell.