Celtics rookie Tremont Waters took to Instagram on Saturday to honor his late father, Edward B. Waters, who died of an apparent suicide Thursday, July 11.
Waters, the 51st pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, called his father a soldier and a fighter, praising him for building from the ground up to help shape Waters into the man he is today.
“No matter the circumstances at hand or what you were going through you figured it out,” Waters wrote. “That’s a trait that’s hard to find because it has to come from within.