Boston Celtics: 3 free agents C’s could sign using mid-level exception

This summer, the Boston Celtics won’t have an abundance of cap space like they did in 2019. What they do have is the mid-level exception, and while this free agent class isn’t loaded with top-line talent, here are a few potential addition role players.

After such an explosive off-season last summer, it wasn’t to be expected that the 2020 free agent period would live up to the same hype…for the Boston Celtics or for any of the league’s other big winners last year.

Really, that free agent period was the perfect storm of big market teams having cap space and the free agent market itself was among the strongest in the last decade. We saw super-teams form from nothing–like the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers–but we also saw key strategic additions in free agency.

None was as sly as Danny Ainge‘s acquisition of All-NBA third team point guard Kemba Walker. While Kyrie Irving‘s exodus and eventual union with Brooklyn was thoroughly thought out, Walker’s signing was more organic.

When it came down to it, his former team, the Charlotte Hornets, didn’t want to show him the money. Boston had a great situation and a vacancy at his position. The rest, as they say, was history.

This summer, there will be signings more akin to the other free agent additions. There will be transactions on the scale of Enes Kanter, or maybe even Vincent Poirier. Regarding signings like those, the need isn’t always filled. Similar moves should happen this year. Here are 3 such similar signings for the C’s mid-level exception: