Just a few weeks after signing a four-year, $45 million contract extension, Sam Hauser donned a white Maine Celtics T-shirt at a meet-and-greet at the North Shore Mall.
“It just reminds me kind of where it all started here in Boston,” Hauser said, gesturing at his shirt with a smile. “Or — I guess more in Maine.”
It wasn’t too long ago that Hauser was an undrafted free agent trying to figure out how to make it in the NBA. He signed a two-way deal with the Maine Celtics in 2021, hoping that that would serve as the beginning of an NBA career.