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Justin Quinn

Six potential 2021 NBA draft prospects for the Boston Celtics

Now that the NCAA Tournament is over and gone, the shape of how the coming 2021 NBA draft is starting to come into view.

And with that growing clarity come a number of projections as to where the various teams around the league might be casting their gaze for their next cohort of rookies. To that end, we rounded up what a number of popular mock NBA drafts are suggesting the Boston Celtics could be considering come the end of this July. With a single first-round pick slated to go somewhere between the lottery and the low twenties, the franchise could pick up a helpful player in a particularly deep draft.

And while there’s a chance the Celtics simply ship off the pick in a deal to consolidate talent, it’s a lot less interesting of a draft analysis to write an article based off of that, so let’s take a look at who Boston might take if they keep the pick.

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