JULY 6: The Celtics have officially re-signed Queta, according to a press release from the team.
JULY 2: Queta’s deal will be for three years, according to Keith Smith of Spotrac, who tweets that the Celtics are using the center’s Non-Bird rights to give him a deal longer than what the minimum salary exception allows.
JUNE 30: The defending champion Celtics continued to pursue roster stability, reaching a multiyear agreement with big man Neemias Queta, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets.
Boston made Queta a restricted free agent on Saturday by extending a qualifying offer of approximately $2.37MM. That came after the club declined its team option on his contract.
Queta averaged a career highs of 5.5 points and 4.4 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per night with the Celtics across 28 contests, earning a promotion from his two-way contract to the 15-man roster.
He was not part of the club’s rotation during its title run, appearing for cameos in just three contests.
The Celtics also reached a one-year agreement with another of their backup big men, Luke Kornet. That depth should come in handy with starter Kristaps Porzingis sidelined 5-6 months after undergoing left leg surgery.
Great move. He is a good defender and xsb give Embiid and Giannas trouble!
He’s better than many realize.
We said that in Sacramento too. Have fun.
Interesting job of developing Neemias Queta in Sacramento. Looked it up. He played in 15 games in his first year and 5 games in his second year there. We’ll chance Celts can do better w Neemias.
Even more interesting is if you look at his per 36 numbers from last year and his last year in Sac, they are almost identical and in some cases worse than they were with the Kings. And not that I love the +\- stat but going from -7 in 22’ and -30 in 23’, to +135 this year… says a lot about what it takes for Queta to be effective.
You talking per 36 for his last year in Sacramento is hilarious considering he played 29 minutes in total.
Nice job on da research.
Especially the plus-minus over those 29 minutes. Super interesting.
I’ve never seen someone use per 36 for a player who played less than 36 the entire season. Either disingenuous or ignorant.
…. I honestly dont know how to reply to this stupidity. How tf else would you measure or extrapolate the numbers of someone who didn’t play? Please explain that to me.
Or I guess I can just use hopes and dreams like to measure success like you.
29 minutes is too small of a sample size to measure anything you ridiculous mook.
I can’t believe I had to explain that, but here we are.
AHAHAHAHA.
Dude thinks he can figure things out from stats when a guy plays 29 minutes an entire season.
I guess he answered your question at least, he’s ignorant, not disingenuous.
“Let’s break down these 29 garbage time minutes and pretend they mean something”
Only a fool would judge a player’s entire season on 29 minutes of garbage time stats. Hi fool.
Sorry, it took me so long to respond Occam’s, I was busy extrapolating out the 23 minutes Drew Peterson played last year into in an entire season.
So Im the fool for trying to use statistics to justify the claims that “he’s better than people realize”? I guess we all should just agree that Queta has potential based on his passing of your eye test
We will and we are.
Sorry about the whole Sacramento thing.
Really glad the Celtics held on to him I think he has so much potential to be a dominate big in the nba
Happy Neemias is staying! Guess guys need to pay their dues to play minutes with this Celtics coach & team. Hauser and Pritchard seemed to have to do so. Celtics!
I’ve been a big fan of this dude for a few years, so I’m super happy for him to be getting this opportunity
Who have the Kings developed? Playing with Kornet, Horford and KP he will learn alot