Celtics To Sign Ron Harper Jr. To Two-Year Deal

The Celtics will promote Ron Harper Jr. to their normal roster and signal him to a brand new two-year contract, ESPN’s Shams Charania experiences (Twitter link).

Boston needed to make a roster transfer at this time so as to add a 14th man after Charles Bassey‘s second 10-day contract expired in a single day on Friday. Teams are permitted to hold fewer than 14 gamers on normal contracts for as much as 28 complete days throughout a season, however the Celtics had already reached that restrict.

Harper, who’s presently on a two-way dealhas performed 26 video games for the Celtics this season after spending the earlier three years with the Raptors and Pistons.

The 6’5″ ahead is averaging 3.4 factors and 1.6 rebounds in 10.3 minutes per contest, with a majority of his video games performed coming within the second half of the season.

As Keith Smith of Spotrac notes (via Twitter), as a result of Harper can be signing a multiyear contract as a substitute of a rest-of-season deal, his cap hit can be equal to the prorated minimal for a three-year veteran as a substitute of a two-year veteran. That means he’ll depend in opposition to the cap and tax for $123,045 this season.

The Celtics, who’ve made a sequence of roster strikes because the commerce deadline with an eye fixed towards remaining out of the tax, will stay about $38K under that threshold after signing Harper, which means they will have sufficient flexibility so as to add a fifteenth man in the course of the remaining days of the season with out changing into a taxpayer.