{"id":587755,"date":"2026-04-05T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:55:09","slug":"celtics-sign-ron-harper-jr-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587755\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Sign Ron Harper Jr. To Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9:54 pm: The signing is official, the Celtics announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/celtics\/status\/2040592697853968502\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-470675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ron-Harper-Jr-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>3:01 pm: The Celtics will promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harpero02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-04_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ron Harper Jr.<\/a> to their standard roster and sign him to a new two-year contract, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reports (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2040518389043523649?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Boston had to make a roster move today to add a 14th man after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bassech01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-04_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charles Bassey<\/a>\u2018s second 10-day contract expired overnight on Friday. Teams are permitted to carry fewer than 14 players on standard contracts for up to 28 total days during a season, but the Celtics had already reached that limit.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, who is currently on a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/10\/celtics-converting-ron-harper-jr-to-two-way-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-way deal<\/a>, has played 26 games for the Celtics this season after spending the previous three years with the Raptors and Pistons.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20195\u2033 forward is averaging 3.4 points and 1.6 rebounds in 10.3 minutes per contest, with a majority of his games played coming in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>As Keith Smith of Spotrac notes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/2040519289346707803?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>), because Harper will be signing a multiyear contract instead of a rest-of-season deal, his cap hit will be equivalent to the prorated minimum for a three-year veteran instead of a two-year veteran. That means he\u2019ll count against the cap and tax for $123,045 this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics, who have made a series of roster moves since the trade deadline with an eye toward remaining out of the tax, will remain about $38K below that threshold after signing Harper, meaning they\u2019ll have enough flexibility to add a 15th man during the final days of the season without becoming a taxpayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9:54 pm: The signing is official, the Celtics announced (via Twitter). 3:01 pm: The Celtics will promote Ron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,21467,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-ron-harper-jr","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587755","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=587755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}