MARCH 4: The Celtics have officially signed Stauskas, the team announced. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
MARCH 3: Nik Stauskas is signing a two-year deal with the Celtics, agents Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link).
The veteran guard has been lighting it up in the G League, scoring a combined 100 points in his last two games for the Grand Rapids Gold, the Nuggets’ G League affiliate. Overall, Stauskas is averaging 26 PPG, 5.8 RPG and 4.7 APG in G League competition over 14 games this season.
Stauskas, a lottery pick by Sacramento back in 2014, played two games for the Heat this season under the 10-day hardship exemption. Prior to that, Stauskas had not appeared in an NBA game since the 2018/19 season, when he played in a combined 68 contests for Portland and Cleveland.
In 338 career NBA appearances, Stauskas has averaged 6.8 PPG in 19.8 MPG while making 35.4% of his long-range attempts.
Boston has an open roster spot, plus two players with 10-day contracts (Kelan Martin and Malik Fitts) that are near expiration. Jaylen Brown missed Thursday’s game against Memphis with an ankle injury and Aaron Nesmith left the game early with an ankle sprain.
While the exact terms of Stauskas’ deal aren’t yet known, a minimum-salary contract that isn’t guaranteed for next season seems likely.
Why not? Could do a lot worse. Maybe he carries over his hot streak a little, but doubtful. I don’t think Udoka will give him much playing time.
Sauce Castillo!!!
Head scratcher.
I’d imagine because it’s for the minimum possible cap hit.
No. Because he’s actually in the NBA.
I’m seeing numerous guys taking a few years to develop into solid or better NBA players. How about Jimmy Butler for one? As a Celtics fan, former Celtics Jae Crowder, Jeff Green, Dwight Powell, Terry Rozier, E’Twaun Moore all are regular rotation players. I think Nik Staukas could prove to be another one of top talent scout Brad Stevens’ finds. Celts need a solid 3-pt shooter to come in experienced and light it up! Ahh, Eddie House, we remember you well! Go Celtics!
Is he playoff eligible or were the Celtics too late?
Celtics should have added IT aswell for a back up bench scoring option. They don’t really have any instant offence scorers on the bench like that. Atleast on a rest of the season deal
haha IT is garbage
“Mr. 4th Quarter” certainly isn’t bad! It’s just Isaiah doesn’t fit with the Celtics any longer. We’re now much taller & a top defensive team. IT is too short & would hurt what we’re doing.
By the bye, Al Horford was a great move by GM of the Year Brad Stevens! Happily Al’s doubters (3 pt shooting) have shut up. Theis showed how tough he is & I’d say proved himself to Coach Udoka last night while Derrick White’s been just perfect. Again, I wish unprofessional announcers would stop parroting, “White’s in a shooting slump from 3.” I don’t see it. Go Celtics!
He’s playoff-eligible, since he wasn’t waived after March 1 (if the Celtics were to waive him before the end of the season, he would lose his playoff eligibility).
Maybe some other time for IT
Too late now… or nearly ever
Two years? With a team option next season?
You’ll see this language again and again near the end of the season. They call it a two-year deal, this year and next year, but really it’s a two-month deal to finish the year and the next season is not guaranteed (in other words, not happening.)
These guys are usually waived in the summer to make room for trades or other guys they sign.
Or the team can pick up the second year in order to use the contract as trade fodder.
i wanna know what scheme grand rapids employs. feature one player while everyone else keeps feeding them till they get a call up, then next man up?
Lol good for him.
2002 sac kings got jobbed
So what if they got jobbed. What happened in 2003? Okay, did they jobbed again? Whose fault was it.., who can they blame?
Okay go after it again in 2004.., but how did they get jobbed again? How did they get ripped off and cheated in 2004?
Give me a break that was twenty years ago. They’ve had 20 years to get past it and build a team and win a championship and what have they done? Absolutely zilch !!!
Nobody wants to sign there because they’re in California, a high tax state? Ummm, No.
They need to change ownership.., the owners weren’t very good. Umm, No.
They need to hire new coaches and a new general manager, he didn’t do a very good job. Umm, No.
Celtics can trade Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown now.
He looked really good in his short sample with the Heat this year, during the covid roster situation. I thought someone might give him a shot for that reason. He looked like a slightly lesser version of Duncan Robinson, which makes sense b/c they were comparable to each other pre NBA
Stevens loves his white guys
Yeah, it’s the whole reason he took the job. To sign white guys. Everyone knows that.
Ya Right!!! Kornet knows the system. Hauser can out shoot anyone in the D league. Theis is a player. Looked good last night. I think the MVP in the league was WHITE last year. The MVP got it!!!
How many white ppl in the starting 5 jw
He loves midgets what are you talking about . Let’s put 6’8 Rob Williams and 6’6 Grant Williams at center. Traded 7’1 Moses Brown for Richardson. Traded alot to get a good pg off the bench in White. A whole team of SFs out there . He loves midgets. Idk why they signed Nik. They need a real center and a real point guard.
6’6″; great move! No more shorties! Celtics winning with defense & playing position-less! Experienced in NBA & as a 3-point marksman.
Trust in Stevens! GM of the Year!
The return of Sauce Castillo!
link to deadspin.com
“Stauskas? Stauskas!”
link to youtube.com
Those were two fun moments of the 2014-2015 season!
Give ’em heck, Nik! I hope you can stick with the C’s and stay in the big league. Keep scoring that ball!
Nik and Jimmer are like G-League and China version of Michael Jordan. And then in the NBA they are White Mamba but with no height.
STOP with the “race” comments, this is about Sports!
dadtrip, you’re absolutely right and 100% spot on.., but I don’t see a problem with Phillyballers post above.
Why is that different? It is intended to insult, and uses race. Who can survive comparisons to MJ & KB? What is the point… he’s a 10-15 man probably and will be expected to make supportive quotes.
Nesmith can’t catch a break.
Or make a shot in the NBA
Good point! Why can’t Aaron Nesmith make a three? His defense, hustle, energy, rebounding, quickness, jumping is all good. He’s even developing his drives to the rim. BUT he can’t make a 3-pt shot & that’s why we drafted him! Coach has commented Nesmith needs to calm down. Anyway, only 22 years old, it’s too soon to give up on him. Go Aaron! Go Celtics!