BOSTON — “Being an E-10 guy is what you make out of it, honestly,” Ron Harper Jr. told Hardwood Houdini before the Boston Celtics’ final preseason game. As Harper sat down in the locker room 30 minutes before the final game of his second preseason in Boston, his future was unclear. As were the futures of Jalen Bridges, Kendall Brown, and Wendell Moore Jr.—the rest of the Celtics’ training-camp guys.
Everything was still up in the air.
That’s the life of an Exhibit 10 player in the NBA. As the Jaylen Browns, Derrick Whites, and Payton Pritchards of the world prepared for (likely) the most unique campaign of their careers, Harper, Bridges, Brown, and Moore were fighting for their NBA lives.