Celtics rookie Aaron Nesmith has not played in the team’s last four games after earning his way into the rotation for a two-week stretch.
During those two weeks, Nesmith averaged more than 20 minutes per game. He dropped a career-high 13 points against the Atlanta Hawks on Feb. 24, perhaps the Celtics’ most embarrassing loss of the year.
According to Brad Stevens, Nesmith’s recent DNP-CDs aren’t his fault.
“I thought he did a lot of good things and has come along well,” Stevens said. “But I think one of the things, when you’ve got Payton out there with that second group — he’s a first-year player, Aaron I thought again did good things, but rotating them together as we get more fully healthy is just more difficult.