{"id":28894,"date":"2025-07-22T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28894\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:57:11","slug":"celtics-add-ncaa-steals-leader-to-maine-roster-98-5-the-sports-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28894\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics add NCAA steals leader to Maine roster – 98.5 The Sports Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Celtics are keeping one of their Summer League players in the organization, as they look toward training camp.<\/p>\n

Hayden Gray is being added to the Maine Celtics roster in the G League, according to Noa Dalzell at CelticsBlog.com<\/a>. Gray led Division I in steals as a senior at UC San Diego in 2024-25, with 3.1 per game. He also averaged 11.2 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 3.3 assists in 35 games.<\/p>\n

UC San Diego won the Big West conference championship over UC Irvine in March. Gray led the Tritons with 22 points in the 14-point victory<\/a>, and of course tied for the game-high with three steals.<\/p>\n

\"HaydenPhoto by Ian Maule\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Gray was an unheralded prospect and went undrafted. He may not be NBA-ready coming out of college, but as a career 39.5% 3-point shooter and a skilled defender, he could develop into a capable combo guard.<\/p>\n

He may need to round out his game to make it to the NBA, but Gray is nonetheless an intriguing add to watch as he develops in the G League.<\/p>\n

Matt, a North Andover, Massachusetts native, has been with The Sports Hub since 2010. Growing up the son of Boston University All-American and Melrose High School hall-of-fame hockey player Steve Dolloff, sports was always a part of his life. After attending Northeastern University, Matt focused his love of sports on writing, extensively writing about all four major Boston teams. He also is a co-host of the Sports Hub Underground podcast and is a regular on-air contributor on the Sports Hub. Matt writes about all New England sports from Patriots football to Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics are keeping one of their Summer League players in the organization, as they look toward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-28894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}