{"id":46925,"date":"2025-08-06T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46925\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:07:10","slug":"celtics-to-sign-chris-boucher-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46925\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics To Sign Chris Boucher On One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Celtics are signing free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bouchch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Boucher<\/a> on a one-year, $3.3MM veteran\u2019s minimum contract, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1952829181558943800\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boston opened up a frontcourt spot for Boucher by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/celtics-to-trade-niang-two-picks-to-jazz.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agreeing to trade<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/niangge01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-05_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Georges Niang<\/a> to Utah on Tuesday. Boucher will compete for minutes at both the power forward and center spots for the Celtics, who have been busy shedding salary and revamping their roster throughout the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Save for one cameo appearance with Golden State in 2017\/18, Boucher has spent his entire career with the Raptors. Boucher has been a key reserve for Toronto the past seven seasons, appearing in 406 games but only 23 starts. He\u2019s averaged 8.9 points and 5.1 rebounds in 17.7 minutes during his NBA career while shooting 48.8 percent overall and 33.9 percent beyond the 3-point arc.<\/p>\n<p>Boucher, 32, saw action in 50 games last season, averaging 10 points and 4.5 rebounds in 17.2 minutes. He didn\u2019t appear in a game after Feb. 26 as the Raptors decided to essentially shut down the veteran big man and take a long look at their younger players.<\/p>\n<p>Boucher was the last remaining player from the Raptors\u2019 2019 championship club. He holds the all-time franchise records as a reserve for points, rebounds, blocks, minutes and games played.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto held Boucher\u2019s Bird rights and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/boucher-intent-on-playing-for-playoff-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly<\/a> was interested in re-signing him but that didn\u2019t come to fruition. He\u2019ll now join another Atlantic Division club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics are signing free agent forward Chris Boucher on a one-year, $3.3MM veteran\u2019s minimum contract, ESPN\u2019s Shams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,16093,15608,85],"class_list":["post-46925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-chris-boucher","tag-georges-niang","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46925","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=46925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}