The Celtics have picked up a pair of team options for 2022/23, according to a series of reports from Shams Charania of The Athletic, Jordan Schultz of the Pull Up Podcast, and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (all Twitter links).
Boston exercised its fourth-year option on forward Grant Williams, per Charania and Schultz, as well as its fourth-year option on guard Romeo Langford, per Wojnarowski. Williams is now guaranteed his $4,306,281 salary for the 2022/23 season, while Langford will earn $5,634,257.
Williams, the 22nd overall pick in 2019, has taken on a bigger role for Boston in the early part of this season. He has started two of six games for the team so far and is averaging 9.8 PPG in 22.8 MPG, both career highs. His shooting line so far is a scorching .576/.500/.917.
Langford’s time in Boston since he was selected 14th overall in the 2019 draft has been marred by injuries. The 22-year-old has appeared in just 53 career games, including three of six so far this season, but the Celtics remain high on his potential. He has played a rotation role when healthy this season, averaging 6.0 PPG and 3.0 RPG in 18.7 MPG.
The Celtics also have to officially make decisions on 2022/23 options for Aaron Nesmith and Payton Pritchard by the end of the day. Both are good bets to have their options picked up.
Celtics are declining
How many times were they in the conference finals last 5 years?
Made an account just to tell you the answer: it’s 3. 2017, 2018, 2020. They have made the eastern conference finals 3 times in the last 5 years. I’m fairly certain that’s more than any other team in the same span, maybe tied with the Cavs or bucks
That is correct. Boston has made it to three ECF’s while the Bucks and Cavs have both been to two ECF’s in the last 5 years. Then the Heat, Hawks, and Raptors have each gotten to the ECF once.
lol. sillivan is account creator bait.
$5.6 million dollars for a mediocre 18 minutes per game while playing in about a third of the games. Not bad work if you can find it.
Seriously, why in the world would they pick this option up? Couldn’t they find a minimum salary guy with a slightly lower upside that could do the same?
Trade fodder, matching salary at the very least. Kid has potential beyond that, if he could stay healthy of course.
You obviously don’t watch Celtics games nor know anything about Langford. An already very good defender with an improved shot who has started to knock down threes? Yeah, that’s a min value guy alright /s.
The Celtics would have been idiotic to not pick up his option at that price point, injuries or not.
How good a defender is he from his seat on the bench?
So no actual counterargument, then. Not that I’m surprised.
Lots of weird decisions being made about paying players that are bench warmers or Langford who passed up a wide open layup.