SEPTEMBER 26: The Celtics have officially signed Stevens, per RealGM’s transaction log. He received a non-guaranteed Exhibit 9 contract, Hoops Rumors has learned.
SEPTEMBER 22: The Celtics have reached an agreement with free agent forward Lamar Stevens, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Stevens spent the last three seasons in Cleveland after going undrafted out of Penn State in 2020. He appeared in 62 games last season, starting 25 of them and averaging 18.1 minutes per night. The 26-year-old recorded 5.3 PPG and 3.3 RPG on .448/.316/.702 shooting and was one of Cavaliers’ most reliable perimeter defenders.
After having his non-guaranteed team option picked up by the Cavs, Stevens was included as an outgoing piece in the three-team deal that sent Max Strus to Cleveland via sign-and-trade. He received a $400K partial guarantee and landed in San Antonio in that transaction, but was waived later in July by the Spurs before his $1.9MM+ salary for 2023/24 became fully guaranteed.
Stevens was said last week to be drawing interest from a handful of teams, including Houston, Miami, and Minnesota, but he ended up agreeing to sign with the Celtics after working out for the club in August.
The details of Stevens’ agreement with the Celtics aren’t yet known. Boston is currently carrying just 11 players on fully guaranteed salaries, with Dalano Banton, Svi Mykhailiuk, and Luke Kornet on non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed minimum-salary deals. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Stevens signs a similar contract, perhaps with a partial guarantee in the ballpark of the ones Banton and Mykhailiuk received ($200K apiece).
Like the celtics or not they have put together one hell of a roster
I’m assuming that’s sarcasm.
I’m assuming you can’t be taken seriously.
Icon we have enough haters on here. Relax bro
I’m super relaxed.
Thanks for checking in.
Anytime
What does telling someone to”relax:” even mean when someone leaves an innocuous one-sentence comment that didn’t even have anything to do with you?
You’re the uptight one here “bro”
Hope Coach Joe can figure out a new team from all these new Celtics. Celts front office wanted Kristap Porzingus so badly we gave up our starting point guard, who was also our heart & soul, our toughness & grit; our identity. Go Celtics!
For some odd reason the Celtics are attracted to those short, squat tweener forwards. Usually they wind up becoming the worst type of players.
Trying to supplement losing G will
Yes, short, squat, tweeener forwards are usually the worst.
Great comment.
Good fit
Agree but bringing another big man wouldn’t hurt, unless they plan to play Queita more than I expect
Stocking up Training Camp with a bunch of possible rotation players and seeing who stands out. Good strategy. Go Celts.
I like it if he backs up Tatum at the SF position. Warren would be good as a backup PF behind R Williams
If Tatum is your Small Forward where do you play Brown?obviously Brown will play Small Forward, Tatum will play Power Forward and Williams will back the 4 and 5 spots.
Brown plays the 2 when the Celtics play two bigs, which they’re planing on doing this year.
Porzingis, Horford, Tatum, Brown, White.
Even though Joe was hating on me above, he is right. Brown should be playing SG. Tatum is SF, Robert Williams is the PF and kristaps is the C. When Tatum was drafted he was a SF. Only until small ball came is when all these SFs starting pretending to be PFs.