{"id":47910,"date":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47910\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","slug":"report-former-raptor-chris-boucher-agrees-to-one-year-deal-with-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47910\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former Raptor Chris Boucher agrees to one-year deal with Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>&#8216; frontcourt is off to a division rival.<\/p>\n<p>Boucher&#8217;s agent Sam Permut told Charania that the deal is fully guaranteed and that he is expected to take on a meaningful role in the Celtics&#8217; frontcourt rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal native leaves the Raptors after spending seven seasons with the team as a valuable player off the bench and helped the team win a title in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>With Boucher gone, the Raptors no longer roster any player from the team that won the NBA championship in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old averaged 10 points and 4.5 rebounds in 17.2 minutes per game last season while shooting 49.2 per cent in 50 games.<\/p>\n<p>Boucher was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2017 by the Golden State Warriors before joining Toronto in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>In 407 career games over eight seasons, Boucher has averaged 8.9 PPG on .488 shooting and 5.1 RPG over 17.7 MPG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former member of the Toronto Raptors&#8216; frontcourt is off to a division rival. Boucher&#8217;s agent Sam Permut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-47910","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\/47910","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=47910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}