{"id":159823,"date":"2025-09-21T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159823\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:59:07","slug":"former-phoenix-suns-forward-joins-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159823\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Phoenix Suns Forward Joins Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_53fv82wk9\">PHOENIX &#8212; Former <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_8td2uv\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/suns\/news\/phoenix-suns-sign-new-players-ahead-training-camp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns <\/a>forward Jalen Bridges is signing with the Boston Celtics, according to HoopsHype&#8217;s Michael Scotto on X: <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_6g5akx1o1\">&#8220;The Boston Celtics and Jalen Bridges have agreed to a deal, league sources told @hoopshype. Bridges will compete for a two-way spot in training camp. Bridges was a two-way player with the Phoenix Suns last season, appearing in eight NBA games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Boston Celtics and Jalen Bridges have agreed to a deal, league sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hoopshype?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@hoopshype<\/a>. Bridges will compete for a two-way spot in training camp. Bridges was a two-way player with the Phoenix Suns last season, appearing in eight NBA games. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/59i5zpfh94\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/59i5zpfh94<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1969066721718784433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ibe8av5eo\">Bridges &#8211; 24 years young &#8211; went undrafted in 2024 and signed with the Suns, where he featured in eight games with Phoenix as Scotto alluded to. Bridges turned down several other two-way offers to play with the Suns coming out of Baylor, where he was known as a strong three-point shooter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_v7mxeqs8z\">Bridges now earns an opportunity to earn a spot with the Celtics after spending this past Summer League campaign with Boston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_t11noqxrr\">With the Valley Suns last season, Bridges averaged 14.3 points on 41.8% shooting from the field with 5.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game. He shot over 38% from three-point land in 31 games with Phoenix&#8217;s G League affiliate &#8211; all of which he started. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_c33onmt5p\">In a rotation of <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_8td2uv\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/suns\/news\/kevin-durant-prevented-phoenix-suns-golden-state-warriors-blockbuster-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant,<\/a> Ryan Dunn, Grayson Allen and Royce O&#8217;Neale &#8211; the likelihood of Bridges earning serious NBA minutes in Phoenix simply wasn&#8217;t a strong possibility. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_11okejnfa\">Perhaps fortunes will change in Boston, where the Celtics have built a strong culture of winning in recent years &#8211; something the Suns are attempting to replicate themselves under new leadership of GM Brian Gregory and HC Jordan Ott. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8212; Former Phoenix Suns forward Jalen Bridges is signing with the Boston Celtics, according to HoopsHype&#8217;s Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-159823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}