Boston Celtics: 3 former Cs to consider targeting on inexpensive deals

Former Boston Celtics player team could target No. 2) Jeff Green

Despite enduring massive ailments such as open-heart surgery back in 2012, Jeff Green‘s 13-year-career has been rather consistent and impactful, especially as of late despite the fact that he’s entering his mid-30s.

Just this past season, the power forward posted some of his best per-36 minute averages since entering the league — 17 points, five rebounds, and just shy of a block per game — while shooting at an impressive clip of 46 percent shooting from the field and 34 percent shooting from deep.

The idea of bringing back Green was actually sparked by Bleacher Report writer Mandela Namaste, who deemed the reunion as a “bargain bin” signing for the Boston Celtics.

"…the big man seems to have matured with age, finding success as a role player for title contenders in Cleveland and Houston in two of the last three years, and he could continue this late-career renaissance with the Celtics. With Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Gordon Hayward and the occasionally stout defensive showing from Semi Ojeleye, the Celtics are fairly set at the forward positions. But coach Brad Stevens, long a proponent of positionless basketball, has been known to try unorthodox lineups. (Remember when he made Evan Turner the second-unit point guard and it worked?) As such, it wouldn’t be shocking if he noticed Green’s success as a small-ball center with the Rockets, looked at his own team’s threadbare big-man rotation and badgered general manager Danny Ainge to address the Celtics’ main roster weakness with the Georgetown alum."

His floor spacing abilities could prove to be a plus offensively for the Cs as a small-ball center, and his veteran leadership & postseason experience could only help the team as they look to get over the hump in the Eastern Conference.