Celtics Guard selected for rising stars battle in all-star weekend

Jayson Tatum and (possibly) Jaylen Brown will not be the only Boston Celtices representatives at NBA All-Star Weekend in San Francisco.

Members of the rising stars Businesses were announced Tuesday and third-year Celtics guard JD Davison made the clip. The 22-year-old joins young up-and-comers such as Dalton Knecht from Los Angeles Lakers and Victor Wembanyama from San Antonio Spurs for the 14th February exhibition. Davison was among 28 players selected – 10 rookies, 10 Sophomores and seven g Leaguers – to participate.

Davison, another round of elections in the 2022 draft, has spent most of the season with Boston’s G League Affiliate Maine Celtics. He has been Third -ridden goal scorer In the G-League, so far, averaging a career high 26.5 points of 48.3% shooting from the field with 4.8 rebounds and 8.3 assists through 15 game-impression enough to earn a certain all-star weekend recognition, but Not enough for a bigger call -up.

Boston has not been dependent on Davison since the preparation of the Alabama product three years ago. While development players like Neemiah Queta and Sam Hauser have escaped from the G League jumping board, Davison has been set. He is an explosive athletic, semi-crafty guard with an under-dimensioned 6-foot-2 frame that does not help Davison’s struggle to score when he gets the chance to fit head coach Joe Mazzulla.

Celtics are 47 matches in their championship defense and have gone 3-9 into play after a win since December 18. They most recently killed the Ime Udokas Houston Rockets on TD Garden on Monday night, marking the fifth Boston defeat in his last 10 games. The ongoing decline and inability to replicate last season’s success at both ends of the floor has led to a hovering palm of the panic button-pending the team’s first red-hot race and at least a list of a certain kind.

Jaden jumps, a non-factor that has used most of the campaign to keep the bench warm, has been floated as a potential trading candidate. It would help clean up $ 4 million from the team’s pay ceiling and allow the franchise to consider giving Davison a promotion. This option can be a bit of a stretch considering that Davison has only tried 1.4 shots in NBA across 25 performances in the last three years and Celtics is in a win-now window. But there is still a chance anyway.