The Boston Celtics brought in one of their largest rookie classes in franchise history this summer with seven first-year players joining the team for the 2019-20 NBA season.
With nearly half the 82-game NBA season behind us, Celtics Wire took stock of the prodigious class of prospects to see how the cadre of rookies is taking to life at the NBA level.
Working our way up in reverse draft order, we’ll take a short look at what each has done compared to reasonable expectations for each given the contexts of how they became part of the team. At the end, we’ll hand out letter grades based on expectations coming into the season.
In other words, we’ll used a nuanced lens to analyze the on-court production and development to date instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, because nuance matters when you have to cram seven new players onto a team with lofty postseason goals and only 17 slots (counting two way contracts).
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