{"id":64551,"date":"2025-08-07T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64551\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:25:07","slug":"celtics-officially-fill-out-another-roster-spot-98-5-the-sports-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64551\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics officially fill out another roster spot – 98.5 The Sports Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be August, but Brad Stevens and the Boston Celtics continued working like it’s the opening hours of the offseason Wednesday. <\/p>\n

In his final season of college ball, Shulga averaged 15 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game, along with a 43.5 field goal percentage and 38.7 percent mark from three-point range, in 35 games for VCU during the 2024-25 season on the way to Atlantic 10 Player of the Year honors. <\/p>\n

Utilized as more of a sparkplug type, Shulga made five appearances for the Summer League Celtics, and averaged five points, 1.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.8 steals per game while averaging 21 minutes per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian-born Shulga, who was a college teammate of Neemias Queta, joins Miles Norris as Boston’s two-way signings<\/a>, while new addition RJ Luis Jr. (picked up in the Niang trade) is also arriving to Boston on a two-way contract. That maxes out Boston’s two-way contract slot at three. <\/p>\n

Players on two-way contracts will spend most of their season playing in the G League, but can be active for up to 50 of their NBA club’s 82 games during the regular season. And while they do not count against a team’s salary cap or take up a roster spot, players on two-way deals will not be eligible for postseason play unless they are signed to a standard NBA contract. <\/p>\n

Boston’s signing of Shulga, as well as last month’s signing of first-round pick Hugo Gonzalez, leaves second-round pick Amari Williams the last remaining unsigned member of the Celtics’ 2025 draft class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be August, but Brad Stevens and the Boston Celtics continued working like it’s the opening hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-64551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64551","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=64551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}