{"id":49991,"date":"2025-08-06T17:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49991\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:26:32","slug":"boston-celtics-sign-former-toronto-raptors-big-man-chris-boucher-to-one-year-3-3-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49991\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics sign former Toronto Raptors big man Chris Boucher to one-year, $3.3 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/chris-boucher\/901190\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/chris-boucher\/901190\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Boucher<\/a> is staying in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal-raised big man has signed a one-year, $3.3 million deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/boston-celtics\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/boston-celtics\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a>, his agent tells ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Boucher, 32, spent the past seven seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, winning an NBA championship in 2019. He was the last remaining member of the Raptors&#8217; championship roster. Boucher\u00a0also won a title in his rookie season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/golden-state-warriors\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon product appeared in 50 games for the Dinos last season, averaging 10.0 points on .492 shooting with 4.5 boards over 17.2 minutes a night. Boucher leaves the Raptors&#8217; as the franchise&#8217;s all-time leader in points, rebounds, blocks and games off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>In 407 career games over eight season, Boucher has averaged 8.9 PPG on .488 shooting and 5.1 RPG over 17.7 MPG.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Boucher is staying in the Atlantic Division. The Montreal-raised big man has signed a one-year, $3.3 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-49991","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\/49991","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=49991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}