In current interview with the Boston Globe, Brad Stevens touched on the Boston Celtics doing what they may to convey again a lot of the 2024 title roster. Stevens mentioned the objective was to see how far the Celtics may take issues, whereas additionally understanding in some unspecified time in the future the luxurious tax and tax aprons could possibly be issues.
“What we need to do is attempt to get our guys locked in on honest and good extensions that they really feel actually good about and hopefully proceed this factor so long as we are able to proceed this factor,” Stevens mentioned. “We’ll cross each bridge once we get there, and the totally different basketball penalties that might be related to being above the second apron, these are actual, and we’ll simply must weigh these in opposition to the place we’re as a basketball crew, and we’ll additionally must weigh the monetary a part of that. And I’m certain a part of that might be a dialogue amongst whoever the brand new buyers are.”
Stevens additionally mentioned the Celtics are prone to maintain their fifteenth, and closing, normal roster spot open. Boston will use that flexibility to see the place they should enhance all through the season.
“We’re simply going to watch the well being of our crew and see how everyone’s doing, and if there’s any points that come up between now and September that we have to actually deal with, then we would use it,” Stevens mentioned. “However proper now I’d say it’s unlikely. We’re nonetheless seeking to signal a few Exhibit 10s that their most certainly path might be to play in Maine. However we’ll see.”
