The Boston Celtics have loads of question marks heading into next season.
Will Jayson Tatum return from his injury, and what is our center rotation going to look like?
Boston has a couple of options, but Celtics Insider Bob Manning and Minnesota Timberwolves insider Jon Krawczynski both believe one player will step forward.
“Seeing him in summer league, (Luka) Garza is skinnier, he has definitely shed some pounds,” Manning said Wednesday.
“They have a hole at center, and they need to figure out what they are going to do at that spot after losing three key guys this offseason.”
Luka Garza was signed by the Celtics this offseason after spending the past three years with the Timberwolves.
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In his career so far, the 2021 Collegiate National Player of the Year has not been given a fair chance to prove his worth.
Krawczynski later goes on to praise Garza’s work ethic and that he could fit into a starting lineup.
“He and Naz Reid both, as they came in, they both had a little more weight on them and you wonder exactly how they'd fit. But both of them have just really leaned out and changed their body compositoin. And that's a credit to Luka, he's an unbelieveable worker, like one of the hardest workers on the team,” Krawczynski said Wednesday.
Right now, the Celtics have Neemias Queta, Chris Boucher, Amari Williams, and Garza to lean on, so he should be given an equal chance.
He dominated college basketball, and reporters across the league believe some of his skills can translate.
Hopefully, for the Celtics, he can do just that.
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