For just $3.3 million, the Boston Celtics may have quietly pulled off one of the most underrated moves of free agency, and sadly the Los Angeles Lakers could only watch with their hands tied.
Chris Boucher, the high-motor forward who spent the last seven seasons in Toronto, is heading to the Boston Celtics. Boucher joins on a team-friendly one-year, $3.3 million deal, per Shams Charania. At the price Boston got him at, the Lakers should have been all over it…that is, if they had the flexibility.
Celtics landed an ideal frontcourt piece Los Angeles couldn’t afford
With Los Angeles hard-capped at the first apron and limited to just $2.