Las Vegas – The Celtics made their debut on their summer league team Friday evening while Charles Bassey was an unexpected late addition to the alignment of the team’s summer league. The former big man of the Spurs shone the Boston bench, displaying 14 points and 11 rebounds in the victory of the team over the Grizzlies at Cox Pavilion.
Brad Stevens revealed on Saturday, which led Basy to join Boston at the last minute to start a potentially promising passage for the great man this summer.
“Charles has played a lot of NBA minutes in the past two years,” said Stevens. “Like several other guys, he made the decision at the last minute to participate in a practice or participate in a series of practices and finally played with the team. I thought he had done a very good job yesterday.”
Bassey is a free agent without restriction after playing his last three seasons with the Spurs. The great man of 10 feet 10 inches interested the Celtics dating from the latest offseason, the sources say in Masslive and there is a clear potential of opportunity in Boston after the intersaison outings of Kristaps Porzingis, Luke Kornet and Al Horford.
Stevens did not point out anything on the chances of Bassey to stick to Boston beyond the stay of the summer league, but the president of basketball operations greatly took the floor of the impact of the great man in just 18 minutes.
“I don’t want to speak for him, what could be his goals,” said Stevens. “He’s a guy who probably plays for the next one. I just think he’s a guy we have paid attention for a long time. We are looking at all these guys all the time and I thought he had done a very good job yesterday. He was probably the biggest reason why we won the game I thought.”
The Celtics currently have only Neemias Queta, Luka Garza and Xavier Tillman signed as great men on the list with the bidirectional center Amari Williams. The list of 15 men from Boston is currently full, but there is a lot of flexibility for the team to bring a player on a training camp contract. Stevens could also change the list further in the coming days and weeks with an exchange or open a list place.
The question of knowing if Bassey wins an opportunity as this probably depends on his game for the rest of the coming week in Las Vegas. For the moment, the 24-year-old looked like a cup over the summer league competition and could be a potential option to help reconstruct their exhausted front zone depth.
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