R.J. Hunter says he never expected to be back in Boston.
“I really had to move on from that situation,” he told reporters in a conference call Friday. “I had to say, ‘Well, that’s over now, so it’s time to move on with your career,’ especially with how this business is. It’s so shot clock.”
But Hunter, who was released by the Celtics after his rookie season, has serendipitously returned to the organization that drafted him 28th overall in 2015. The 6-foot-5, 25-year-old shooting guard signed a two-way contract with the C’s earlier this week.
“For [president of basketball operations] Danny [Ainge] and everybody to keep up with me — three years later — on my journey, when it’s kind of hard to keep up with games, it just really said a lot about how far I’ve improved,” Hunter said.