Payton Pritchard has been open about how his lack of playing time during the 2022 season with the Celtics made him feel.
He mentioned feeling sad and depressed about not getting minutes during an episode of the teams’s View From the Rafters podcast last month.
Houston Rockets coach Ime Udoka, who was coaching the Celtics at the time, saw that Pritchard was not happy. He averaged 14.1 minutes per game this season, which was a little more than half the 27.6 he is averaging this season.
“He was pissed about it, for sure,” Udoka said.