{"id":33419,"date":"2025-07-30T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33419\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:46:08","slug":"second-rounder-max-shulga-signs-two-way-deal-with-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33419\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-Rounder Max Shulga Signs Two-Way Deal With Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former VCU standout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/shulgma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Max Shulga<\/a> has signed a two-way contract with the Celtics, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/players\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official transactions log at NBA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-441451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Max-Shulga1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Shulga was selected No. 57 overall in the 2025 draft. Boston acquired his rights in a trade with Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>A 6\u20194\u2033 guard, Shulga was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and played high school basketball in Madrid, Spain. He spent three college seasons at Utah State prior to transferring to VCU in the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In two seasons with the Rams, Shulga averaged 14.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.3 steals in 72 games (32.8 minutes per contest). He posted a shooting line of .440\/.402\/.826 over that stretch and earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors each of the past two seasons. Shulga was also the conference\u2019s Player of the Year in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p>While Shulga is now officially under contract, the Celtics still have an unsigned second-round pick (No. 46 overall) in big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/william01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amari Williams<\/a>. He\u2019s also expected to sign a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/2025-26-nba-two-way-contract-tracker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-way<\/a> deal, as former ESPN employee Jonathan Givony <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/top-45-picks-from-2025-draft-have-signed-nba-contracts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> on the second night of the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Shulga will earn $636,435 for his rookie season and can appear in up to 50 games in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former VCU standout Max Shulga has signed a two-way contract with the Celtics, according to the official transactions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,5855,575,85],"class_list":["post-33419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-max-shulga","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}