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The Boston Celtics’ draft confirms their free agency plans

People have been speculating what the Boston Celtics will do when free agency begins on June 30. We don’t know where Kyrie Irving and Al Horford will end up, but we do know that the Celtics will look very different for the 2019-2020 season.

Boston drafted some quality players, but president of basketball operations Danny Ainge may have confirmed what we already believed about his free agency strategy. There were two major takeaways about Celtics’ free agency plans based on the players they drafted.

Boston will pursue a big in free agency:

The Celtics had plenty of opportunities to take power forwards and centers in this draft such as Mfiondu Kabengele, Bruno Fernando, Nicolas Claxton and Bol Bol.