The 2019 NBA Draft is now officially less than a month away and the Boston Celtics are doing their due diligence to make sure they’re ready to go on that June 20 night in Brooklyn.
The Celtics have four picks on draft night (three in the first round) and, with an abundance of picks, they can take a chance on a player or two. With the uncertain futures of point guards Kyrie Irving and Terry Rozier, who will both enter free agency this summer, the Celtics could look at the point guard spot in the draft.
On Thursday, the Celtics hosted Kansas Jayhawks freshman point guard Devon Dotson for a predraft workout. The 6-foot-2 dynamo averaged 12.3 points and 3.5 assists while playing in the unforgiving Big 12 Conference. He also shot 36.3 percent from deep showing off some touch in his game.
The Celtics have a very unpredictable offseason, so in terms of what direction they should take, plenty of their decision-making could hinge on what they anticipate happening in free agency. The franchise is in limbo but fortunately for Boston, they don’t have to rely on the NBA Draft to find their starting point guard, as the Celtics could retain Rozier as a restricted free agent.
Unless, of course, Rozier has burned bridges in Boston with his unabashed public criticism of the team following the season and his belief that he sacrificed to much for the good of the team to do again. Which then makes the draft even more interesting.
The picks the Celtics make (or trade) in June could very well change the shape of this team’s future.
