Despite the goody bag of draft picks, the Al Horford signing and guaranteeing Amir Johnson and Jonas Jerebko, Danny Ainge still needs to make another signing. With Guerschon Yabusele and Ante Zizic overseas this season, Kelly Olynyk and Jordan Mickey are the two backup bigs on the Celtics’ rotation. And unless RJ Hunter makes some sort of dramatic improvement during training camp, the Celtics are still in desperate need of a bench shooter if they want to make a serious playoff run.
Luckily for Ainge, he has a trio of second round picks that should be spending their season int he D-League and/or overseas, giving him at least two roster spots to fill with the team’s remaining cap space, the mid level exception and the veteran minimum exception.