The Celtics will work out free agent forwards T.J. Warren and Lamar Stevens this week in Boston, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (video link).
Boston has 11 players with guaranteed contracts and two others with partial guarantees, so it has the roster space to make an addition or two if Warren and/or Stevens make a favorable impression.
The Celtics will also take a look at free agent wing Louis King, Michael Scotto of HoopsHype tweets.
Warren, 29, appeared in a combined 42 games with Brooklyn and Phoenix last season, all as a reserve. He also came off the bench for the Suns in six postseason contests. He appeared in just four games the previous two seasons due to foot injuries.
Warren, who signed a one-year, veteran’s minimum deal with the Nets last summer, was a consistent scorer for Phoenix and Indiana earlier in his career. He has averaged 14.6 points in 27.4 minutes per game in 374 career regular season contests.
Stevens was waived last month by the Spurs. The 26-year-old’s contract for 2023/24 was partially guaranteed at $400K and San Antonio cut him loose before his full $1.93MM salary becomes guaranteed. He had been sent to the Spurs by Cleveland as part of the Max Strus sign-and-trade.
The combo forward went undrafted in 2020 after four college seasons at Penn State, later signing a two-way deal with the Cavaliers. He was promoted to a multiyear standard contract in April 2021, the end of his rookie season.
Overall, Stevens averaged 5.3 points and 2.8 rebounds in three seasons with the Cavs (165 games, 16.0 MPG).
King, 24, was on a two-way contract with the Sixers for most of last season but appeared in only one NBA game. He became an unrestricted free agent when Philadelphia didn’t give him a qualifying offer.
Oh man I hope they pick up TJ.
Boston, treat my sweet boy lamar well
I hope they will sign these 2 players. They can benefit on this two players offensive and defensively.
Lol more SFs lol. A team full of them. Drafted a SF. Signed a SF on a two way. Best player is a SF. This is a clueless team now lol. What a joke
The team had reached the East Finals and also reached the Finals. Seems good to me.
And the only way they will get there again is if silver is in the refs ears to help
Tell us you don’t know how important wings are in todays NBA without actually telling us
Tj was one of the very best players in the bubble if he can regain that form would be a nice pickup also regarding having to many small forwards nice problem to have
Seems he’s not fully back from his injuries. He’s healthy he can help. I’d give Warren a look.
If the Sixers can find a taker for Harrell this would be a good vet min pickup, him or Will Barton.
White, Walsh and a pick for Marcus Smart
Then sign these guys