The Celtics passed on guys like Bobby Portis, RJ Hunter, and Kevon Looney. Now we wait and see what this means for Marcus Smart. Rozier is another point guard that isn’t a great shooter. At the 16th pick, they have selected Terry Rozier. The Celtics were unable to trade up into the lottery. Here is what our friends over at Celtics Blog had to say about the drafting of Terry: These tweets would wind up not aging all too well, as Celtics fans would wind up knowing who Terry Rozier is in due time. Yo, who is Terry Rozier? Come on Celtics.- Chris McDaniel June 26, 2015 But getting drafted by one of the premiere franchises in the sport with their first pick? Especially when you weren’t expecting them to give you a call? Well, sometimes you just have to go jump in a pool to celebrate. There’s always excitement when you find out that you are one of the few people on the planet that is talented enough to get drafted in the NBA by any team. With the 16th pick, he was selected by the Boston Celtics. To his surprise, he would not have to wait too long on finding that out. Instead, he wound up watching the draft at home around his friends and family to wait and see where his road to the NBA may start. With draft projections ranging all over the place, Terry did not receive an invite to attend the NBA draft to hear his name get called and walk across the stage to greet NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. It seemed that most indications showed that Rozier would likely be selected somewhere in the mid-to-late range of the first round, and SB Nation’s mock draft had him pegged at 27th overall. Draft sites such as ESPN, SI, and DraftExpress had the sophomore guard out of the first round altogether. However, despite these early draft projections, over time his draft stock began to slip and slip away. After a “head-turning” showing at both the LeBron James Skills Academy and Adidas Nations camps in the summer of 2014, Rozier leaped on to the 2015 NBA draft radar and was being projected as an early first-rounder if he had a strong season for the Cardinals. Terry’s pre-draft projections had him a bit all over the place. Source says Celtics guard Terry Rozier's contract is for the max, 120% of the rookie scale.- Adam Himmelsbach July 27, 2015 Especially since Terry got paid big-time. So Terry had to make a decision that isn’t an uncommon one that a lot of these guys have to make: Do I stay in school and play for free, or do I make the jump now to help out my family’s situation?Īnd honestly, who could blame him? Sure, it would have been great to have the guard who lead the team in scoring at 17.1 points per game to come back as a junior, but Terry had to make a difficult decision about what would be best for himself and his family. “And he says, ‘OK, maybe I wouldn’t be drafted as high as I would be if I waited one more year, but I’d rather sacrifice that for my mom not having to work two jobs.’” “Terry looks at home and sees his mom working two jobs, and she’s going 16, 17 hours a day,” Pitino told reporters Monday. However, Terry had to take a look at his family’s situation and make a tough, but mature, decision. He knew that if he waited another year, he would more than likely be drafted higher, and thus being able to secure even more money. Terry’s decision to leave school early wasn’t as easy to make as it was for players that are the Ben Simmons, Jayson Tatum, or Lonzo Ball caliber of player, where it wasn’t any secret that they were just making a short 9-month stop at their respective schools (and for Simmons, it wasn’t even that long). Hunter, but we’ll get in to that a little bit later. Instead, most Celtics fans had their eyes on Georgia State’s sharpshooter R.J. The announcement that he was the first selection of the draft by Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge was not met with fanfare and excitement that the new rookie was probably looking for. This was the night that would change the life of 21-year old Terry Rozier forever, going from a star guard for the University of Louisville Cardinals, to a rookie on one of the NBA’s most iconic and prestigious franchises-the Boston Celtics.
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