The Celtics today announced they were exercising the team options of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Guerschon Yabusele. This guarantees a salary of $7.8 million next season for Tatum, $6.5 million for Brown, and $3.1 million for Yabusele.
Tatum and Brown were obvious, though the Celtics did wait until the absolute last day to officially exercise those options.
Yabusele, though, is a little bit of a surprise. As I’ve explained before, paying the tax on Yabu makes him essentially twice as expensive as his contract.
However, now that they’ve kept him, they do have a filler contract that can be added in a potential trade.