Leaving to play in China after being cut by the Nets last September, Noah Vonleh is finally back in the Big League, and it’s at the Boston Celtics that it’s happening. Invited to the C’s training camp after a great season in the jersey of the Shanghai Sharks, the pivot will have to prove that he still deserves his place in the NBA. Good news for him, a few minutes should be scratching off the bench in the racket of the Greens.
There is a certain category of players in the NBA for whom finding stability is complicated, sometimes even impossible. Drafted with the ninth pick by the Hornets in 2014, Noah Vonleh has been around a lot since then. The Blazers, Bulls, Knicks, Wolves, Nuggets and Nets, there’s no denying it, the interior is well and truly part of the backpacker class. From now on, it is with the Boston Celtics that Noah will discover his eighth franchise after nine seasons in the NBA. Originally from Massachusetts, the kid from Haverhill finally finds the house, but for how long this time. Signed for only a year by the C’s, Vonleh will have to prove himself quickly in a racket where minutes could a priori be given to him. Besides, what could be better than the C’s training camp to come to preheat Able to deviate a little to shoot a few arrows behind the bow but also to nab a few rebounds, NV will however have to do better than during his last passages on the American parquet floors. Appeared only four times for an average of two minutes, his adventure with the Nets is clearly to be forgotten, just as much as that with the Nuggets just before. No, Noah Vonleh’s best came five seasons ago now, when the inside was still playing for the Knicks. We laugh we laugh, but the fact remains that the experience at Madison Square Garden will have been really interesting for the then 24-year-old pivot. Regularly starter in position four due to injuries to Porzingis, Vonleh had then shown interesting things, notably by compiling 8 points and 8 rebounds each evening. The transfer to Wolves will unfortunately have cut this beautiful dynamic, until today in any case.
Free agent F Noah Vonleh has agreed to a one-year deal with the Boston Celtics, source tells ESPN. Vonleh will go to training camp with the hopes of making the roster.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 2, 2022
Since ? Noah Vonleh to make a real place for himself in the NBA. After filling out his United States card, the interior went into exile in China last season, having no more offers in the country of Uncle Sam. Performing there, the former Indiana student had a successful 2021-22 exercise with the Shanghai Sharks. The averages ? 11.6 points and 5.8 rebounds, not bad at all. Vonleh was finally able to play a little and the main thing is probably there. Confidence and time is that the boy lacked to show that he still has marbles to place in the NBA. It is under the colors of the Celtics that he will therefore have to try to win. With Al-Horford and Luke Kornet as the only real competition off the bench, NV must be consistent to hope to scratch a few minutes. Otherwise, his future in the NBA could well darken a little because the contract is not guaranteed, he has no certainty of being kept by Beantown beyond the C’s training camp.
At only 26 years old, Noah Vonleh will have to prove that his NBA career is far from over. Announced as a player with great potential when he arrived, the interior is struggling to confirm his status. Come on Noah… China was good but now it’s time to prove it, and what better than Boston and its mythical Garden to get there.
Source texte : CBS Sports
