The Celtics signed Mfiondu Kabengele after the team’s loss to the Nets concluded Summer League. The pick-and-roll duo of rookie JD Davison and Kabengele now fill the team’s pair of two-way slots. Those contracts allow the players up to 50 regular season games in the NBA, $502,000 this season and no playoff eligibility.
Kabengele, a 24-year-old center entering his fourth professional season, showed out throughout Boston’s slate of games, averaging 14.8 PPG, 8.2 RPG and 2.2 BPG, shooting 58.7% from the field and 40% from three. This marked the final year he would’ve been eligible for a two-way deal, joining the Celtics in Summer League to compete for a NBA role after a full season with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the Rockets’ G-League affiliate.