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In a move that’s been mentioned just about everywhere, Rasheed Wallace officially signed with the Celtics at the start of the NBA’s free agent period today. It’s two-year deal for the mid-level exception, which means that the Celtics have officially gassed up and loaded the “win now or bust” van.
Celtics fans, of course, have already talked themselves into the Rasheed Wallace experience. It does certainly fit in with the persona they’ve displayed since acquiring KG. And as much as I like Glen Davis and Mikki More, they desperately need somebody coming off the bench who can provide something at least resembling defense.
Fantasy-wise, it’s not great for the soon to be 35-year-old Wallace, who will likely come off the bench and barring a KG injury, will asked to do a lot less than in Detroit. Last season, in 32 minutes a game, Wallace finished 67 on our 8-cat rater and an amazing 26 on our 9-cat rater (thanks to an insanely good 0.9 turnovers a game). Optimistically, if he gets 28 minutes off the bench for the Celtics, he’d be in the 110 range in 8 cat leagues and 55ish in 9 cat leagues. I see Wallace as a low reward guy next year with some moderate risk of just not getting enough minutes to be worth owning in all but deeper leagues that count turnovers.
The trade also kills any fantasy value that Glen Davis had going into the year. Davis was deceivingly decent over the second half of the year and really blew it out during the playoffs filling in for KG, averaging close to 16 points and 5.6 rebounds in 14 playoff games. But with KG’s return and Wallace mopping up any leftover minutes off the bench, Davis’ role will return to what it should have been all along, a nice 8th-9th guy off the bench. That is, unless the Celtics decide to trade Big Baby.
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