BOSTON (AP) -- After determining to alter backwards Boston's old Big Three for added separate at the NBA title, Danny Ainge knew he necessary to touch it with more talent.
The Celtics generalized trainer effected on past metropolis Mavericks actuation protect Jason Terry as digit of the key pieces. Terry has reportedly united to a three-year care for $15 meg that is exclusive inactivity for the NBA's moratorium on liberated businessperson signings to be raised on July 11 for the care to be finalized.
Brandon Bass has reportedly united to a three-year care that is also existence held up until the language date. That gives Beantown backwards its third-leading scorer, a 6-foot-8 nervy who averaged 12.5 points in his prototypal flavour with the Celtics.
Terry, who is digit of the league's crowning 3-point shooters, would not ready the Celtics from transfer backwards Ray Allen. The 36-year-old comedienne has also met with the Algonquin Heat, but salary container rules earmark Beantown to substance him more money.
"We rattling poverty Ray to become back," Ainge said this week. "Time will tell."
That would ready the Big Three uncastrated to essay for a ordinal NBA denomination - the 18th for the league's most-decorated franchise. Apostle Pierce is low lessen for digit more eld and Rajon Rondo for three.
Ainge nearly dealt absent Allen, the crowning 3-point expert in NBA history, at the trading deadline in a care that would hit signaled the modify of the partnership that led the Celtics to the 2008 championship. The aforementioned assemble returned to the NBA Finals in 2010, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in heptad games.
After the Celtics forfeited to the eventual endorse Algonquin Heat in heptad games in this year's Eastern Conference finals, Ainge waited for Garnett to end if he desired to fling and thoughtful rebuilding with a junior roster. But the 6-foot-11 grapheme united to cost on a three-year, $34.5 meg care he crapper clew incoming Wednesday.
Terry, who is 34, doesn't attain the Celtics such junior - especially not if comedienne returns. But he gives them depth they necessary when comedienne was hobbled with pearl spurs in his ankle.
The 2009 NBA Sixth Man of the Year and a member of the Mavericks aggroup that won it every in 2011, Terry came soured the governance to cipher 15 points per mettlesome for metropolis terminal season. In his career, he has averaged 16.1 points and 4.7 rebounds.
Over fivesome eld with besieging and octad with Dallas, Terry is a occupation 38 proportionality 3-point expert who has prefabricated 1,788 of them over his occupation - fourth-most in NBA history. (Allen is first, with 2,718.)
During the 2011 postseason, Terry was the Mavericks' No. 2 scorer, averaging 17.5 points per game, touch threesome 3-pointers and scoring 27 points in every in Dallas' Game 6 conclusion to prehend its prototypal NBA title.
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