BOSTON — The defending champion Boston Celtics drafted Creighton sharpshooter Baylor Scheierman with the thirtieth general decide within the NBA Draft on Wednesday evening. It was the primary time the Celtics have drafted a participant within the first spherical since 2020.
Scheierman led the Bluejays with 18.5 factors off 45 p.c taking pictures and 9.0 rebounds per sport final season, which earned him All-Massive East First Workforce honors. He helped lead the Bluejays to the Candy 16 in final 12 months’s NCAA Event.
Scheierman performed 5 seasons of faculty ball, and spent his first three seasons at San Diego State. Â
Scheierman has a pleasant contact from downtown
The lefty will flip 24 in September, and has some good measurement at 6-foot-6 and 205 kilos, which helped him create his personal pictures on the faculty stage. He made at the least one three in 48 straight video games for the Bluejays, and shot 39 p.c from downtown for his profession.Â
He shot a career-best 47 p.c from three-point vary off 5.1 makes an attempt per sport in 2021-22 for the Jackrabbits.Â
A 3rd-team All American by the Related Press, Scheierman is the primary Division I participant to log at the least 2,000 factors, 1,000 rebounds, 500 assists, and 300 three-pointers of their profession.Â
Will Scheierman make an affect on the 2024-25 Celtics?
There are some questions on his athleticism and the way his protection will translate to the NBA, however he’ll have time to develop in Boston whereas doubtlessly including some taking pictures off the bench in some unspecified time in the future subsequent season. Brad Stevens mentioned earlier this week that it could be robust for any rookie to crack the staff’s rotation in 2024-25, and the Celtics have loads of wings with Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Sam Hauser, who has a staff possibility for subsequent season.
This marks the primary time that Stevens has made a first-round decide since changing into Boston’s president of basketball ops. in 2021. The Celtics additionally personal the 54th decide within the second spherical on Thursday. Â