{"id":672584,"date":"2026-05-15T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672584\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:52:10","slug":"isaiah-thomas-is-rejoining-the-celtics-this-time-in-a-different-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672584\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Thomas is rejoining the Celtics \u2014 this time in a different role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Celtics star Isaiah Thomas is joining the organization as a pro and college scout, as first reported by the Boston Globe\u2019s Adam Himmelsbach<\/a>. Thomas will remain based in Seattle and serve as one of several regional scouts for the Celtics, working closely with Brad Stevens and the Celtics front office.<\/p>\n

Thomas is currently at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago<\/a> with Celtics executives and will assist with scouting in the year ahead. (The Celtics already have regional scouts in Atlanta<\/a> and Dallas<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Thomas, who played for 11 different NBA teams, became a star during his three-year tenure with the Celtics. Thomas\u2019s best season came in 2016-2017, when he averaged 28.9 points and 5.9 assists per game and finished fifth in MVP voting.<\/p>\n

Thomas sat courtside alongside new Celtics owner Bill Chisholm at a December home Celtics game and has routinely spoken positively about his relationship with the team, even though his tenure ended abruptly, with him being traded for Kyrie Irving<\/a> in 2017 after he suffered a hip injury.<\/p>\n

Thomas recorded a voiceover for a Celtics hype video earlier this year and wrote the foreword for the Boston Globe\u2019s 2024 Celtics championship book. And, a few weeks after the Celtics won the 2024 NBA title, Thomas told CelticsBlog it\u2019s been an honor to still be so connected to the Celtics fanbase.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt means everything,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a blessing. I always talk to my friends about it \u2014 you would think I played 10 years here, you would think I won multiple championships. The love I have with the city, and vice versa, it\u2019s just genuine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that love has been formalized into an official working relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Celtics star Isaiah Thomas is joining the organization as a pro and college scout, as first reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[4131,64,63,1664,5127,6167,65585,13798,7223,590,85],"class_list":["post-672584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-celtics","tag-chicago","tag-dallas","tag-isaiah-thomas","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672584","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=672584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}