Former Boston Celtics guard Marcus Good by no means obtained acclimated totally earlier than the Memphis Grizzlies pulled the plug and traded him away.
Memphis traded Good and a 2025 first-round choose to the Washington Wizards in a three-team commerce involving the Sacramento Kings, which netted the Grizzlies two second-round picks. Good was initially thought of a priceless member of Memphis’ younger squad upon his arrival final season, nevertheless, accidents derailed these plans.
Good suffered a proper index finger harm that’s sidelined him since Dec. 21 that’s restricted him to no workforce drills and particular person basketball actions. Final season, Good logged simply 20 appearances, recovering from a sprained left foot and injured finger, and despite the fact that the 11-year veteran understands the character of the commerce deadline, that didn’t make it any much less surprising for Good when he heard the information.
“I used to be just a little shocked but additionally not on the similar time,” Good informed reporters Saturday, per team-provided video. “I figured I’d get traded. I simply didn’t know the place — we had been type of simply ready. However I used to be just a little bit shocked, it was just a little final minute however that’s out of my management and I are likely to not deal with issues I can’t management.”
It was laborious sufficient for Good to observe the Celtics attain their final purpose — profitable a championship — whereas the 30-year-old watched from house, eradicated from the playoffs. Good spent his first 9 NBA seasons with Boston after the workforce chosen him sixth general within the 2014 draft, and rapidly turned a fan favourite.
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Good embodied the all-on-the-line complicated that’s made Celtics gamers of the previous a few of the most revered and remembered legends of all time. It earned Good a Defensive Participant of the Yr honor in 2022, making him the primary Celtics participant to win the award since Kevin Garnett (2008).
Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens made the tough choice to commerce Good within the three-team blockbuster that introduced Boston Kristaps Porzingis two offseasons in the past. By the point Stevens pulled the set off, Good’s repute was well-established. Celtics followers and teammates revered every part he dropped at the desk that wasn’t acknowledged within the field rating.
Good gave Boston 110% each evening and helped the workforce attain the 2022 NBA Finals. He performed 581 video games in a Celtics uniform and ranks fourth all-time in steals (914) in C’s historical past. It wasn’t sufficient for Banner 18, however Good nonetheless plans to use every part he discovered in Boston, now as a member of the Wizards.
“Simply my expertise,” Good stated. “I’m in my eleventh season and I’ve performed for actually good groups up till now and was in a position to do some issues with them, and actually simply convey that have over right here. It’s a younger group of fellows actually trying to determine their very own on this league and simply serving to them with that.”
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The Wizards have gone 9-44 because the worst workforce within the Jap Convention, amid their ongoing painful rebuilding course of.
Good will even reunite with ex-Celtics teammate Malcolm Brogdon within the Nation’s Capital.
