Within the upcoming NBA season, the Celtics shall be bolstered by 7-foot-3 Latvian, Kristaps Porzingis as they chase a championship.

In the course of the lifeless of final Thursday evening, a three-team commerce that noticed Marcus Sensible land in Memphis and The Unicorn in Boston occurred.

“[When I woke] up within the morning, I noticed that it occurred, the commerce occurred and I used to be simply extraordinarily excited and intensely blissful,” ” Porzingis stated at his first press convention with the franchise.

“[It was] a possibility to play for a very good staff already and have the ability to add to that. And hopefully to assist these guys, make their life simpler, and being on a high-level group like Boston, historic franchise, iconic franchise, it made it extraordinarily simple for me to make that call.”

Regardless of rumors of Boston splitting up Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the pair look set to remain and create a Huge Three with Porzingis – who is happy to play alongside the J’s.

“I need to come right here to make life simpler for these guys,” Porzingis stated. “Hopefully with my talent set and my expertise I can take some stress off of these guys. And that’s it. I come right here to attempt to make this staff higher. And I’m excited to play with such high-level guys which have been there from 12 months to 12 months and have that have already. So, I feel it may be a terrific mixture.”

Porzingis hasn’t had the best of careers resulting from damage troubles and has been to a few totally different groups since 2019 when he was traded to Dallas from New York.

However the Celtics signify a brand new begin for the almost-28-year-old, who’s coming off arguably one of the best season of his profession the place he averaged 23.2 factors per sport, 8.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks with the Wizards.

“I feel these are one of the best years for a basketball participant,” stated Porzingis “You’re bodily there, and mentally, you might be attending to a special stage. I feel the work paid off for me. I checked out my sport, I checked out how I could possibly be extra environment friendly and simply actually analyzed myself, and it paid off final season, all of the work I put in off the court docket to remain wholesome.

“My physique is maturing, and attending to that age helped, and I consider I’ve some nice, high-level years forward of me.”

Touchdown Porzingis was an enormous win for the C’s however their president of basketball operations Brad Stevens is “actively exploring commerce alternatives”, in response to The Athletic’s Jared Weiss. 

So it appears the Celtics aren’t finished but!