Within the upcoming NBA season, the Celtics can be bolstered by 7-foot-3 Latvian, Kristaps Porzingis as they chase a championship.
Throughout the lifeless of final Thursday night time, a three-team commerce that noticed Marcus Good land in Memphis and The Unicorn in Boston occurred.
“[When I woke] up within the morning, I noticed that it occurred, the commerce occurred and I used to be simply extraordinarily excited and intensely completely satisfied,” ” Porzingis stated at his first press convention with the franchise.
“[It was] a chance to play for a extremely good staff already and be capable to add to that. And hopefully to assist these guys, make their life simpler, and being on a high-level group like Boston, historic franchise, iconic franchise, it made it extraordinarily straightforward for me to make that call.”
Regardless of rumors of Boston splitting up Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the pair look set to remain and create a Massive Three with Porzingis – who is happy to play alongside the J’s.
“I wish to come right here to make life simpler for these guys,” Porzingis stated. “Hopefully with my talent set and my expertise I can take some stress off of these guys. And that’s it. I come right here to attempt to make this staff higher. And I’m excited to play with such high-level guys which have been there from yr to yr and have that have already. So, I feel it may be an ideal mixture.”
Porzingis hasn’t had the best of careers because of harm troubles and has been to 3 completely different groups since 2019 when he was traded to Dallas from New York.
However the Celtics symbolize a brand new begin for the almost-28-year-old, who’s coming off arguably the most effective season of his profession the place he averaged 23.2 factors per sport, 8.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks with the Wizards.
“I feel these are the most effective years for a basketball participant,” stated Porzingis “You might be bodily there, and mentally, you’re attending to a special stage. I feel the work paid off for me. I checked out my sport, I checked out how I may very well be extra environment friendly and simply actually analyzed myself, and it paid off final season, all of the work I put in off the court docket to remain wholesome.
“My physique is maturing, and attending to that age helped, and I consider I’ve some nice, high-level years forward of me.”
Touchdown Porzingis was an enormous win for the C’s however their president of basketball operations Brad Stevens is “actively exploring commerce alternatives”, based on The Athletic’s Jared Weiss.
So it appears the Celtics aren’t completed but!
