Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown gained’t be the one Boston Celtics representatives at NBA All-Star Weekend in San Francisco.
Members of the Rising Stars rosters have been introduced Tuesday and third-year Celtics guard JD Davison made the minimize. The 22-year-old will be a part of younger up-and-comers like Dalton Knecht of the Los Angeles Lakers and Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs for the Feb. 14 showcasing. Davison was amongst 28 gamers chosen — 10 rookies, 10 sophomores and 7 G Leaguers — to take part.
Davison, a second-round decide within the 2022 draft, has spent many of the season with Boston’s G League affiliate Maine Celtics. He’s been the third-leading scorer within the G League, up to now, averaging a career-high 26.5 factors on 48.3% capturing from the sphere with 4.8 rebounds and eight.3 assists via 15 video games — spectacular sufficient to earn some All-Star Weekend recognition, however not sufficient for a significant call-up.
Boston hasn’t relied on Davison since drafting the Alabama product three years in the past. Whereas developmental gamers like Neemias Queta and Sam Hauser have escaped the G League stepping stone, Davison has remained put. He’s an explosive athletic, semi-crafty guard with an undersized 6-foot-2 body that doesn’t assist Davison’s struggles to attain when given the prospect to swimsuit up for head coach Joe Mazzulla.
The Celtics are 47 video games into their championship protection and have gone 3-9 in video games following a win since Dec. 18. They most lately tumbled to Ime Udoka’s Houston Rockets at TD Backyard on Monday night time, marking the fifth Boston defeat in its final 10 video games. The continued hunch and incapacity to copy final season’s success on each ends of the ground have prompted a hovering palm over the panic button — pending the crew’s first red-hot run — and on the very least, a roster transaction of some type.
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Jaden Springer, a non-factor who’s spent many of the marketing campaign maintaining the bench heat, has been floated as a possible commerce candidate. It could assist clear up $4 million off the crew’s wage cap and permit the franchise to contemplate giving Davison a promotion. That risk may be a little bit of a stretch contemplating Davison has tried only one.4 pictures within the NBA throughout 25 appearances prior to now three years and the Celtics are in a win-now window. However there’s nonetheless an opportunity nonetheless.
