{"id":844705,"date":"2026-09-12T00:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844705\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:32:49","slug":"celtics-reportedly-interested-in-devin-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844705\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Reportedly Interested In Devin Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Celtics have expressed interest in signing Devin Carter<\/a> once the former Providence standout clears the waiver wire, according to Jake Fischer of The Stein Line and Bleacher Report (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Fischer was first to report earlier on Friday that Carter had been waived<\/a> by the Hawks. Atlanta acquired Carter and a 2033 second-round pick at the end of June in a trade with Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The Kings selected Carter with the 13th overall pick in the 2024 draft. The 6\u20192\u2033 guard had a strong junior season for the Friars in 2023\/24, averaging 19.7 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.0 block on .473\/.377\/.749 shooting splits in 33 appearances (35.3 minutes per game).<\/p>\n

However, his NBA career hasn\u2019t gotten off to a great start. Carter\u2019s debut was delayed several months due to left shoulder surgery and he battled ankle, back, and calf issues during his second season in 2025\/26. He appeared in just 74 total regular season games in his two years with the Kings, averaging 6.4 PPG, 2.7 RPG, and 1.9 APG in 14.8 MPG, with an underwhelming .401\/.274\/.674 shooting line.<\/p>\n

Carter had some big games down the stretch of last season and unsurprisingly performed better when he received consistent playing time. Over his last 12 appearances<\/a> (27.5 MPG), the 24-year-old averaged 15.0 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 3.9 APG and 1.1 SPG on .461\/.375\/.630 shooting.<\/p>\n

Boston is currently only about $1.7MM below the luxury tax line with 14 players on guaranteed standard contracts, per Yossi Gozlan of CapSheets.com<\/a>. Signing Carter to a one-year, minimum-salary deal would result in a $2.45MM cap hit.<\/p>\n

Still, we don\u2019t know for sure that Carter will sign with the Celtics and we also don\u2019t know what type of contract he might sign. Perhaps he\u2019ll receive a partially or non-guaranteed contract, or even a two-way deal \u2014 Boston currently has one two-way opening.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that even if Carter does sign a guaranteed contract with Boston, the team might be comfortable operating a little over the tax line to open the season. It also likely wouldn\u2019t be too difficult to move below that threshold ahead of the trade deadline in February.<\/p>\n

Carter is the son of longtime former NBA guard Anthony Carter, who\u2019s now an assistant coach with the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics have expressed interest in signing Devin Carter once the former Providence standout clears the waiver wire,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[27129,355,99],"class_list":["post-844705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-devin-carter","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844705","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=844705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}