Boston Celtics add three to Summer League team

The Boston Celtics are persevering with to construct out their Summer season League roster with a wave of undrafted free brokers. The workforce has added Penn State’s Zach Hicks, Gonzaga’s Ben Gregg and St. John’s Aaron Scott to the combination.

In line with Bobby Manning of CLNS Media and CelticsBlog, the present roster heading to Las Vegas additionally contains Baylor Scheierman, Jordan Walsh, Miles Norris, and second spherical picks Amari Williams and Max Shulga.

It stays unclear whether or not first-round choose Hugo González or two-way signee Drew Peterson will take part in Summer season League motion.

Hicks, a 6-foot-8 ahead, began all 31 video games for Penn State final season and averaged 11.6 factors, 4.9 rebounds and a couple of assists per recreation. He shot an environment friendly 47.1% from the sector and 41.3% from past the arc, posting a 65.5% true capturing share.

Scott, a 6-foot-7 guard, performed his senior season at St. John’s after transferring from North Texas. He averaged 8.4 factors, 4.3 rebounds and 1 help per recreation, with a slight statistical dip from his junior marketing campaign (11 factors, 5.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists). Regardless of the drop, Scott brings NBA dimension and averaged over a steal per recreation in his lone Large East season.

Gregg, a 6-foot-10 large man from Gonzaga, additionally labored out for the Celtics previous to the draft. Whereas he struggled from three-point vary this previous season (27.1%), he shot 37.7% from deep as a junior. If he can rediscover that stroke, his means to stretch the ground might assist him land a contract. Gregg hails from Clackamas, Oregon—simply 13 miles from the place Celtics guard Payton Pritchard grew up in Tualatin.