With just six players under contract and as many as nine roster spots open, the Boston Celtics will most likely have a much different look next season. The core group will remain intact, as starters Rajon Rondo, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen will all return to the team; Jermaine O?Neal and Avery Bradley are also signed through at least next season.
The team?s biggest free agents, according to Yahoo! Sports, are Glen ?Big Baby? Davis and Jeff Green. The Celtics have the option to match any offer Green, as an unrestricted free agent, receives.
Should the Celtics not bring back Davis, that would leave Rondo, Pierce, Garnett and Allen as the only players left from the 2008 championship team.
Rondo told Yahoo!, however, that he believes Boston can make a run at another NBA title. ?We got five people under contract, right? But I think we got five good people under contract, through,? Rondo told the website. ?We?ll form a team again. I think we?ll be fine as a team and we?ll be fine in the future. That?s the plan.?
The Boston Globe, meanwhile, writes that Marquis Daniels, who played on the Celtics the past two seasons but suffered a season-ending spinal cord injury in February and was later traded to Sacramento, is an ?intriguing free agent option? for Boston. His agent, Mark Bartelstein, said Daniels is healthy, working out, and ready to return.
"Marquis is doing great," Bartelstein told the Globe. "He's working out and going full speed. He's working out and ready to go. He's absolutely ready to go."
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