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.

The Celtics are a veteran team with their eyes on winning a World Championship. With that in mind they didn’t have much time for rookies this season. Glen “Big Baby” Davis did get some playing time for the Celtics this season and if he can stay somewhat in shape the Celtics have something here. He played in 69 games (1 start) as a rookie this season and he averaged 13.6 minutes, 4.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game. Davis could be a big part of the future for the Celtics but he won’t get big minutes for a few years.

Point guard Gabe Pruitt didn’t get much of a chance to show what he could do this season. He played in 15 games (0 starts) this season and he averaged 6.3 minutes, 2.1 points, 0.5 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game. Pruitt needs to improve his shooting if he ever wants to be anything more than a #11 or #12 player on a roster. He only shot 35.9% from the floor this season and he only shot 50% from the free throw line and those numbers are unacceptable.