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In a surprising move, the Celtics signed one of the top free agents in the field, Lonnie Walker, to a training camp deal. Walker has averaged 9.8 points per game in his six year NBA career, and could immediately become an impactful rotation player if given the chance. In the latest episode of You Got Boston, Noa reacts to Brad Stevens' latest shrewd move, and breaks into how Lonnie Walker might impact the Celtics next season. Plus, Jrue Holiday spoke at a Raising Cane’s event on Wednesday. We’ll talk about what he said, and how different his reception has been since winning the championship. We’re officially less than a month from Celtics training camp – tune into You Got Boston for regular content the rest of the summer.  ****************************************  CLNS Media is Powered by:   Prize Picks - PrizePicks.com/CLNS  Download the app today and use code CLNS for a first deposit match up to $100!   Gametime - https://gametime.co  Take the guesswork out of buying NBA tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code CLNS for $20 off your first purchase. Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Terms apply.

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00:00What's up, everyone? This is Noah Dalzell, and I'm here with a brand new episode of You

00:20Got Boston, a new Celtics podcast on CLNS, and here to react to the big news of the day,

00:27starting this very late on Wednesday night, so this will be out on Thursday, but the big

00:31news is that the Celtics have signed Lonnie Walker to an Exhibit 10 training camp deal,

00:37and this is not something that I was expecting. I think I pretty much assumed that the news

00:41would be all wrapped up as far as new off-season content in the coming weeks. Certainly expected

00:48that Lonnie Walker would get signed this summer, but thought that it would be for more than

00:52a training camp deal, so we'll talk about all of that today, about Lonnie Walker, about

00:56what he might bring to the Celtics team, how his Exhibit 10 contract works, and just

01:03what this could mean for Boston. I will start off by saying I could not be more high on

01:07Lonnie Walker the fourth. I'm sure you'll hear lots of different people's takes and

01:12perspectives, and there is obviously a reason why he hasn't been signed to this point. He's

01:16not a perfect player, but I think for what he is, which will be effectively the last

01:22roster spot if he gets that, I think the upside is really, really high. So we'll talk

01:27about all that today. We'll also talk a little bit about Drew Holiday. He did an event at

01:31Raising Canes that I was at alongside David Ortiz, just kind of talking about his relationship

01:37with the city, winning an Olympic gold medal, and just what his summer was like, because

01:42this is really our first time hearing from Drew since the championship experience, and

01:47so that was fun to just be able to chat with him today in downtown Boston. So all that

01:52is coming in this episode. Please do subscribe. It's YouGotBoston on YouTube. You can also

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02:16starting next month. Media Day for the Celtics is September 24th, so we're literally already

02:22less than a month away from Celtics Media Day, and then we'll be going, we'll have so

02:26much coverage, you'll get sick of it. So I'm really excited for the fact that this off

02:31season feels like it was so short. We had the championship, obviously, the finals. We

02:35had, you know, Vegas Summer League, the draft, all that. Just a couple of weeks here with

02:40a little bit less going on since the Olympics, and then we get this surprise signing late

02:45Wednesday night, and that's the Lonnie Walkers joining the team. And so I'll start off by

02:50just sharing my initial thoughts. So Lonnie Walker, he's 25 years old. He's been in the

02:55league for six years. He's been on the Spurs, the Lakers, and the Nets. He's somebody that

03:00is a clearly can have can be a very good score. He shot 38% from three last season for the

03:07Nets. For his career, he's averaging 9.8 points per game on 42.2% shooting. So he's never

03:15been super efficient. And I think that's maybe one of the knocks on him. But he's also

03:20somebody that can score when given the opportunity at eight games last year where he

03:23scored 20 plus points. He had 17 games at 15 plus points. And he started over 75 games in

03:30his career. So this is not your average exhibit 10 signing. And what an exhibit 10

03:36contract means is that it's a training camp deal. So he's going to compete for a training

03:40camp spot. If he doesn't make the team, but they send him to Maine, he gets a $77,000

03:46bonus. So he gets that opportunity, at least to be able to get some guaranteed money, but

03:53this is not a guaranteed contract. So at first when this news broke, Adrian Wozniacki from

03:59ESPN, originally shared that this was a one year contract, I assumed this was a veteran

04:03minimum one year deal. And then more information came out later. Shams Charani from

04:08Athletic talked a little bit more about what this contract actually was. And it's an

04:12exhibit 10. And it's not a contract that you would expect somebody of Lonnie Walker's

04:17stature, you know, somebody that is, you know, basically a double figure score on his

04:22career, who is not even in his prime, to have to settle for something like that. And to be

04:27honest with you, it's a little bit of a mystery to me why he was not able to get a bigger

04:30deal. I'm assuming that if he took this contract, he wasn't offered a veteran minimum

04:35elsewhere, unless he felt like where he was offered a veteran minimum, it wasn't a good

04:39place for him to grow. But the first thing that I want to say is that I think that the

04:44South, this is a reflection of the Celtics and kind of the championship culture, and just the

04:48culture in general that they've built for players. And I bring up Zvi Mihalic as a really

04:52good example of what playing for the Celtics can do for somebody because he is a guy who

04:58was barely in the rotation last year. He shot well when he checked in, and he was always

05:02ready to go. But for the most part, he was a stay ready guy, right? He was a guy sitting on

05:07the bench, a guy that really wasn't performing a whole lot. Certainly not in the rotation

05:11during the playoffs and not really during the regular season with some exceptions. And Zvi

05:15Mihalic just signed a four year $15 million contract with the Utah Jazz. And so it's a

05:22great data point. And it's a data point that the Celtics front office can point you to show,

05:25hey, you come here for a minimum deal. Zvi was a guy that, you know, I wasn't sure if he was

05:30going to be able to make it in the NBA much longer, kind of balancing around from team to

05:34team. Wins a championship, shows that he's a good locker room guy, probably gets rave reviews

05:39from everybody in the Celtics organization. I know that when I asked Brad Stevens about O'Shea,

05:44he brought up Zvi on his own accord, just wanting to bring up what a great guy he was and how he

05:49belongs in the NBA. And next thing you know, Zvi gets a $15 million contract, right? It's a

05:55kind of dream come true type of thing. And so Lonnie Walker maybe is looking at the Celtics

06:00as a stepping stone to getting that bigger deal. In one hand, you know, you can get that

06:05championship caliber or experience. You can be around these great players, learn from the best

06:10defenders in the game when it comes to guards between Drew Holiday, Derek White, and even

06:14Jalen Brown as a point of attack defender. But also, on the flip side of that, I'm surprised

06:20that he wanted to go somewhere where he is going to be so deep in the rotation. You know, you would

06:26think that there's somebody somewhere else that he can go and get a veteran minimum deal,

06:31a team like the Pistons or a team like the Hornets, and maybe actually get some minutes.

06:36But, you know, he hasn't really been able to find that home. And he's talked about wanting to get,

06:41find an organization where he can stay long term. And so far, it hasn't been any of the three teams

06:45that he's played for. You know, initially it was the Spurs for three seasons. He played for the

06:50Lakers. He played for the Nets. And he just hasn't been able to find a place that, you know, is his

06:55and somewhere that he can be for his career and decide that multi-year deal so that he's not just

07:00bouncing around from, you know, organization to organization, which is obviously not the ideal

07:05for any, any player. And so he lands in Boston and it's a training camp deal. And we're gonna,

07:11he's definitely going to be the talk of training camp. I was already thinking today, you know,

07:16this is going to be in a weird way, kind of a lackluster training camp in a sense,

07:20just because you literally have your entire team coming back from last year.

07:24And so you don't have like the new characters, the new people you want to meet, the new faces.

07:29Instead, you have a bunch of returners that you already know that you're going to ask them about

07:33repeating, right? But it's just an unusual circumstance. Now there's a guy who clearly

07:37there's going to be a lot of interest in talking to Lonnie Walker, getting a sense for why he chose

07:42Boston, what the situation, the setup is here. I don't know if there's an implicit promise or if

07:47there's an understanding that this is an exhibit 10, that's likely going to turn into the 15th

07:51roster spot, or this is just, he's one of the guys that's going to be battling for that spot.

07:55And the implication is that he's going to be in the G-League. I mean, I can't imagine him in the

08:00G-League at this point in his career, certainly would not have been my guest going into this

08:04off season that Lonnie Walker was heading to the G-League. But you just never know. I mean,

08:08sometimes things just don't shake out fairly, or, you know, some guys just make a couple of bad

08:13business decisions. Maybe he had an offer at one point that he turned down. I think about O'Shea

08:18Brissett. O'Shea Brissett had a player option to opt into the second year of his contract with

08:22the Celtics. He could be a Celtic right now on a minimum contract. And I don't know

08:26if he has those kinds of offers available right now, or if he could go back in time,

08:30if he would want to sign, wishes that he opted in, you know? So you just never know for some

08:35guys that works out. Like Sabit obviously worked out this year, and then you see guys sometimes go

08:38overseas and you're like, that guy couldn't make it. I remember talking to Jared Solinger earlier

08:42this year, and Jared Solinger was telling me, once you go overseas, you're kind of like out

08:47of the mix. And teams kind of view you as like, you're not really in the picture anymore. And he's

08:51a guy that chose to go overseas relatively early on. And that was kind of the end of his NBA career.

08:56And so I think for, you got to play your cards well, when you're one of those guys,

09:00that's not a star, not a guaranteed guy, not a lottery pick, but a guy that is kind of a

09:06mid-tier, you know, maybe you'll make it, maybe you'll have a really long career, maybe you won't.

09:10And so certainly that is, you know, Volodymyr Walker, he finds himself in this position that

09:16probably most of us didn't expect him to, and he ends up with Celtic. And I think for him,

09:22he's running an organization that is renowned. It is a championship caliber organization,

09:26obviously. And he's going to be playing alongside Hall of Famers, you know, between

09:30Drew Holliday, Al Horford, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, just some of the best players in the league

09:36and just guys that are experienced in so many different facets. So I'm sure from a mentorship

09:40standpoint, this team doesn't lack that. You know, you wonder on the rotation, say he does make the

09:45team, you know, which is my assumption. So he gets that 15th roster spot, signs the minimum DL

09:50off the training camp. You would expect him to be in the bench rotation, at least during the

09:55regular season. And he's a guy that you can count on for a basket, you know, he's a 9.8 point per

10:01game score in his career, right? And so you think that he's a guy that maybe plays alongside or

10:07competes for minutes with a Sam Hauser, maybe a guy like Jaden Springer, who I think some of you

10:13guys might know I'm pretty high on, maybe this bumps him back a little bit. Just because Lonnie

10:18Walker is a more refined offensive talent, at least or at least that's the understanding right

10:22now. I think Jaden Springer hasn't had that many rotation minutes to really know what the situation

10:27is for him on the court. But I don't think Lonnie Walker is going to spend a lot of time in the

10:31G League at this point. So my prediction at this point from what we know, and obviously things can

10:36change really quickly here is that he goes to training camp he impresses because he's an

10:40impressive player and they sign him to that minimum last call, you know, contract spot,

10:45and then he is in the rotation. Honestly, that's what I think will happen. I'm really high on

10:50Lonnie Walker. I think if you immediately if you're, you know, depending on how closely followed

10:54NBA may or may not have heard of him or remembered his name right away when you heard the signing.

11:00And the first thing that I think about when I think about Lonnie Walker is the Lonnie Walker

11:04game in the 2023 postseason. He was a member of the Lakers and in game four of the Western

11:11Conference semifinals, Lakers Warriors, Lonnie Walker, who had pretty much fallen out of the

11:15rotation, checks in and scores 15 fourth quarter points, six of nine from the field. One of those

11:22like all time performances where you just you just get chills watching because you see a guy who

11:27is, you know, on the fringe of in and out of the rotation and out of the league,

11:31dealt with a fair share of injuries and adversity. And he's been open on a lot of

11:35other issues that we can get into another time, but comes in and just has this masterful fourth

11:40quarter is the TNT interview, you can just tell that he's kind of pitching himself the whole time.

11:44And I thought that was gonna be a breakthrough moment for Lonnie Walker. And that

11:47last year on the nets, I thought he was going to be one of the primary options. And he wasn't that.

11:53And so you wonder if there's something about him that maybe we are not aware of, you know,

11:58we the media, you know, fans, people that just follow the league. It's certainly something that

12:03I'll be talking to people over the coming days and getting a sense of if there is some sort of

12:09red flag or something that we're not, you know, maybe is not being taken into account when we're

12:13evaluating Lonnie Walker as a player, because I know there were a lot of other NBA players have

12:17spoken out about like, this is weird that he didn't get signed yet. NBA Central posted it

12:22literally today. So I thought that was ironic that the day that there's a Lonnie Walker highlight

12:28being passed around on Twitter of like, who's going to sign this guy that's helping sign him.

12:33And so, so yeah, you know, this is not what I expected. But I think this is going to go down

12:39as a really good signing. I think Brad Stevenson has done it again. Because even if it doesn't

12:43work out, you didn't really lose much. And if it does work out, you might have like a real

12:48rotation piece, a real, a really good bench player in the mix and a young guy that's just not even in

12:54his prime yet. I think this is going to work. I got a good feeling about this. I've been a long

12:59time fan of his, I feel a little bit like I felt when Drew Holliday signed, but like, obviously,

13:03to a much lower extent, but just the guy that I've really taken a liking to a guy that I've

13:07really liked his game, like the way he conducts himself, the way he talks, the way he, you know,

13:12addresses the media and all that the way he just kind of carries himself and his work ethic and

13:16everything and everything that I've seen from Lonnie Walker. Over the last few years, I've

13:19really liked I was looking forward to following his career this year, regardless of where he

13:23landed. And I got the most notification, clicked on it, saw it said the Celtics, I was like, no way,

13:29like, how is this possible? How do they keep doing this? How does the lead let them get away

13:34with this getting the obviously the, you know, the guy that was the biggest name still available

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14:41Another kind of fun fact that I saw about him today is that he's a career 59% shooter against

14:46Boston so follows the the long time habit the Celtics front office has of signing players that

14:52are quote unquote Celtics killers players that have really excelled and played very well against

14:57Boston over the years and O'Shea Bercet's an example of a guy that had six threes when he was

15:02on the Pacers against the Celtics. So O'Shea is certainly an example of that of a guy that,

15:07you know, maybe the front office notices him and they they keep tabs on those players. And Lonnie

15:13Walker's a guy that's played really well against Boston. Part of why I have a high impression of

15:18him, although really the that Lakers game, the Lonnie Walker game is the one that really stands

15:23out to me when I think about what he's capable of. And obviously it's just one quarter. You don't

15:27want to draw even generalizations about a player from that, but really exciting. So that's my

15:33initial impression on Lonnie Walker. I guess just to sum it all up, I couldn't be more excited about

15:39August 28. This is the notification that you get after a summer where you already

15:43signed your entire team on the heels of winning the NBA championship. And now you get this really

15:48promising guy to add to the bench mix. And this is a bench that was always a really good Celtics

15:53plus minus bench. Like, you know, when we talked about the Celtics bench, they were outscoring

15:58opposing teams benches. They were very effective defensively, but they were a low scoring unit.

16:02So it was more just that they were effective on the court, more as complimentary pieces.

16:06You didn't have many shot creators, Pritchard at times, Hauser at times, but more catch and

16:12shoot. And Lonnie Walker might change that, might bring a dynamic that they were missing.

16:16The question with him is defensively, that's been where he's been a little bit inconsistent. And I

16:20would imagine that a training camp, what they're going to be looking for is if he can

16:23kind of grasp the Celtics defensive system, because if he can't, there you go. It's not

16:29going to work out for him in Boston. So hopefully he can, hopefully he is able to figure this out

16:33and to kind of show the Celtics coaches that he's a guy that they want to invest in and work with.

16:39And he sticks around and that he helps contribute the team in their pursuit of banner 19.

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18:44So that's it on Lonnie Walker. The other thing I wanted to touch on today in today's episode of You

18:49Buy Boston is Drew Holiday because was at an event at Raising Canes in downtown Boston today. And it

18:56was a sort of grand opening. It was called the Golden Birthday of Raising Canes. It's the 28th

19:02birthday on August 28. And it was also the 828th franchise. So whole lot of excitement around that

19:09for the restaurant chain. Obviously, Raising Canes does a lot of stuff with athletes. I actually

19:14don't know how they managed to do that, how they managed to sign so many players to come and serve

19:19chicken. And Al Horford did it in the summer as well right after they won the championship. But

19:23basically, Drew Holiday was at Raising Canes, as was David Ortiz, Red Sox legend doesn't need any

19:30introduction. And also the artist Jake. I don't know if you guys know him, how much you follow

19:36that type of music. But Jake has a famous song called golden hour, he kind of blew up on TikTok.

19:40So they have this big event in downtown Boston, bunch of media there a bunch of fans. It was like

19:44early in the morning, it was a ribbon cutting the entire restaurant is like gold covered right now.

19:49And Drew Holiday was kind of the main attraction. He was there filming some commercials and content.

19:54And I posted some of my some stuff on Twitter. So if you're curious, you can check that out.

19:59My Twitter handle is at Noah Dalzell. So follow there. But we then had a little bit of a press

20:04conference with Drew Holiday, which was a lot of fun because I haven't had the chance to ask him

20:08any questions since literally the night they won the championship. So it's been a while.

20:13And I'll just talk briefly about some of the things that stuck out to me from our conversation

20:16with Drew. I asked him about what it's been like walking around the city since winning the

20:21championship versus how it was beforehand. And yeah, I love this quote. He said, before winning,

20:26I could go places like any kind of fun walking around. And then like now it's just he gets stopped

20:31all the time. And that's what you hope, right? As a player, you want to be the guy that you're so

20:36beloved in the city where you play and usually a championship is what delivers that. And I remember

20:40before the Celtics won the championship, Jason Tatum talked about how he already receives so

20:45much love walking around the city of Boston. And he basically said, you know, I can't wait for what

20:49that will feel like once I help bring a title to the city. And now they've done that. And I think

20:55that none of those guys, none of the members of that title team will ever be received the same

20:59in the city. Probably will never have to pay for a meal, will probably be stopped for photos and

21:04autographs everywhere they go for the rest of time, really. I mean, I saw the way that David Ortiz

21:08was received. Obviously, he's a pretty unique legend in his own right. But that's just the way

21:14that it goes when you help deliver a championship to a city that loves sports as much as Boston does.

21:19So, you know, Drew was asked a couple of things that stuck out to me. Drew was asked about

21:24the Olympics really reflected on what a great experience that was. Mentioned Devin Booker and

21:29Steph Curry as two players that were just really easy to play with. Guys that he was able to easily

21:34develop chemistry with. He mentioned Anthony Edwards as the biggest trash talker on the Olympic team.

21:39Probably doesn't come as a surprise to most of you. And then the other thing was that he was

21:45asked to compare the gold medal and then the championship, which is never a bad problem to

21:50have that you're being asked to compare probably the two greatest, I mean, the two greatest feats

21:54that an basketball player can achieve. He achieved them two months apart. And he said that winning in

21:59Paris was awesome. It was very unique, especially because it was against France in France. So he

22:04said it was kind of like an us against the world type of thing. But he did say winning here was

22:11amazing. I'm not sure anything tops that. So it does sound like the championship trophy, you know,

22:17the championship hoisting, I guess. Yeah, I guess the trophy was hoisted. I'm recording this at

22:221 a.m. So apologies. But he was he did kind of discuss just like the parade was so crazy.

22:28The whole thing was so overwhelming that he's still kind of riding a high from all of that.

22:32So it was great to hear from Drew. He was a usual friendly, good mood, just reflecting

22:37on what a summer it's been for him and for Derek White and for Jason Tatum as well.

22:43Drew was asked about Tatum's DNPs and whether he talked to him about that. And he said,

22:49you know, Tatum is fine. He's a professional. You know, he wasn't worried about all that. So

22:53kind of the standard PR answer that you would expect from Drew Holiday. And I think that'll be

22:57the standard answer in general, because I'm sure during media day and training camp week,

23:03there's going to be a whole lot of questions about, you know, Tatum Olympic experience,

23:08Jalen Brown's Olympic experience. And I think we're going to get a whole lot of PR

23:12and probably just people saying the right thing and making it a non story, which I think ultimately

23:16will have to be a non story because it's going to be, you know, months after the fact. And,

23:21you know, ultimately not the team, the Olympic team is not the team that we're here to talk

23:25about. Right. So we'll see about all that. But that was that was Drew Holiday's response.

23:30And then Holiday was also asked about re-signing the entire roster. And he said, I think it's

23:34going to help a lot. It's always hard to win one, but to win back to back is even harder.

23:38So I think just kind of getting a head start on other teams where we have the continuity.

23:43So he is high on the fact that something's brought everybody back. Again, this was a couple of hours

23:48before the Lonnie Walker signing was announced. So we didn't get to ask Drew about that. But

23:53in a couple of weeks, the whole group will be back together and we'll be able to talk to

23:56Drew, to Lonnie Walker, hopefully, and to the rest of the team. So I have a story on Celtics

24:02blog about the Drew Holiday event. And including it was funny when Drew Holiday was answering my

24:09question about kind of how he's been received in Boston. David Ortiz walked in and interrupted him

24:14and they embraced in the middle. And it was just very cool just to hear David Ortiz talking about

24:18what it was like for him to follow the Celtics throughout the playoff run. He said, like,

24:22I'm a Celtic, I cry, I scream. Holiday said, like, I can vouch for that. So I think those

24:28two have a little bit more of a friendship than I would have known. But Ortiz also said that it

24:33was just really cool to see Al Horford win a championship. Al Horford became the first

24:37Dominican athlete to win an NBA title. So super cool on that front. And he said, so that made the

24:45experience even more special for him. So all in all, it was a really cool event. Lots of posts

24:50and videos and quotes on my Twitter. So if you want more coverage from that event, you can

24:55check it out as though you're there. Also have a story, as I mentioned, on Celtics blog.

24:59And then we'll have more Lonnie Walker coverage analysis. I'm sure we'll discuss it all as a

25:04group as well. But for now, I just wanted to put out my initial thoughts. I think it's going to be

25:09one of those moves where one day we're going to go back and say, how did Rads even get this done?

25:14And nobody's going to really know. And the same way that we look now at the Derek White trade,

25:18obviously to a lower extent, I don't think the ceiling is quite as high, but there's just no

25:22risk. So you got to give Rads kudos for continuing to make good moves one after the other. So I'm

25:30really excited about it. We'll have more coming up soon. For now, please subscribe. You Got Boston

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25:45questions, criticism, feedback, ideas, whatnot. For now, thanks for listening. I'm Noah Dalzell.

25:51Cover the Celtics for Celtics blog and SB Nation and CLNS media, and also cover the WNBA. So have

25:57a great rest of your day and your weekend. I'll be going live on Sunday. So check back in and we'll

26:02answer any questions you might have on Lonnie Walker or anything else.

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