Fans of the Boston Celtics often have teams at the NCAA level they also root for, whether it is UConn, Providence, Boston College, Rhode Island, Harvard, Yale, or any of the other New England schools that make the big dance.
But not all of us having rooting interests in collegiate basketball, and not all of us want one. But every fan of the Celtics can at the very least get a leg up on which prospects in the tourney to watch for potential Celtics targets in the 2024 NBA draft. Picking late in the first and second round this year, Boston will be after cheap talent ready to play now to fill the gaps in their rotation and hopefully grow into larger roles over time.
With that in mind, we put together six prospects who fit the bill of the sort of players we think Boston might consider with the draft picks available to them.
Let’s take a look at them, and why the Celtics might be interested.