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2015 NBA Draft: the Doc Rivers trade is complete

2015 NBA Draft — It took two years, but the trade that sent Doc Rivers to the Los Angeles Clippers in 2013 has finally come full circle, with the Boston Celtics selecting Georgia State wing R.J. Hunter with the 28th overall pick.

Boston gets RJ Hunter w/ Clippers’ pick — LAC sent pick to Boston for Doc Rivers.

— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) June 26, 2015

With many predicting Hunter to be a player who can come off the board in the teens, this is a good value pick for Danny Ainge — if it had been the Clippers’ pick, it’d also be a nice selection; in Hunter’s final season at Georgia State, the wing averaged a career-high 19.