Once Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens and his staff make the no-brainer decision to pick up Sam Hauser’s $2.1 million team option, per Spotrac, they can focus on finding more diamonds in the rough.
Hauser was once an undrafted free agent who spent much of his first season with the Shamrocks on a two-way contract. Now, the 6’8″ sharpshooter is a key part of this rotation and Boston’s third-most used reserve this postseason.
Of course, if finding Hauser types were easy, all pricey rosters would be balanced out by bargain-rate contributors. Chances are, the Celtics will take multiple fliers and few, if any, will actually pan out.
Still, that’s all a part of the process of handling an expensive core under this collective bargaining agreement. The back half of Boston’s bench will be mostly populated by players making next to nothing (relatively speaking, of course), so if the Celtics fill a few of those spots with capable contributors of any kind, that will be a win.
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