25-year old undrafted guard Lafayette Oliver out of Houston got into 1 game with the Boston Celtics this season. He played 22 minutes for the Celtics in that game and he scored 7 points, grabbed 4 rebounds and he dished out 2 assists. It will be interesting to see if the Celtics bring Oliver back over the summer and give him a chance to make the team next season or not. Regardless, he made a nice first impression in the NBA.

With the Celtics a little long in tooth maybe they should give rookie forward Marcus Landry some minutes off the pine. He played in 17 games (0 starts) for the Knicks before coming to the Celtics in the Nate Robinson trade and he is averaging 6.4 minutes, 2.6 points and 1.1 rebounds per game this year. He is also shooting only 39% from the floor this season and that’s not good enough to get on the court for the Celtics but it’s kind of unfair to judge him on his shooting yet as he is only averaging 6.4 minutes per game.

The Celtics have waived rookie shooting guard Lester Hudson. Hudson played in 16 games (0 starts) for the Celtics this season and he averaged 4.4 minutes, 1.4 points, 0.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists. The Celtics didn’t have much playing time to offer Hudson so they likely did him a favor by letting him go.

25-year old rookie shooting guard Lester Hudson will likely only get garbage time minutes as a rookie unless the Celtics suffer a lot of injuries at his position. Hudson has played in 6 games (0 starts) for the Celtics this season and he is averaging 5.5 minutes, 1.8 points, 0.2 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game. Don’t look for Hudson to make much of an impact this season for the Celtics.

The defending champion Boston Celtics have no playing time available for rookies right now. J.R. Giddens has not played in a game yet and Bill Walker has only played in 2 games. Walker is averaging 2.8 minutes per game and 1.0 point per contest. I have a hard time believing that Giddens or Walker will get much playing time the entire season unless the Celtics get ransacked by injuries.