Sometimes, teams use the strategy of “stashing” a player in an overseas league while retaining their rights for more of a tool for cap management than for earnestly developing a prospect outright, but that couldn’t be further from the situation with Boston Celtics stashed floor general Yam Madar.
Playing overseas for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League since 2018, Madar still has two seasons left on his deal there that would otherwise require a buyout. But given the high level of competition and the Celtics’ current crunch of younger players, it’s a near-ideal situation for Madar as well as Boston.
We won’t be able to watch his progress quite as closely as if he were with the Maine Red Claws on a two way deal, but with that team’s season in question because of the pandemic and both two way deals already spoken for, watching games like this one will have to do.
Watch the video embedded above to see Madar hang 18 points and 4 assists on Maccabi Rishon courtesy this clip posted by Celtics fan videographer Tomasz Kordylewski — it seems the Israeli’s game is coming along nicely.
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