This is a guest column submitted by Gant
As you know every team can have up to 15 roster positions. Right now the Celtics have 10 players under contract for the coming season:
Garnett, Pierce, Allen, Rondo and Perkins; then House, Walker, Giddens, Scalabrine and Tony Allen. That leaves 5 more potential spots.
(Please do not imagine that the team will cut a player under contract. This won't happen. They would lose a valuable tradeable expiring slot and still pay the luxury tax.)
Barring a trade 10 spots are currently taken and 5 are open.
Potential Returning Free Agents:The Celtics have one slot potentially earmarked for Big Baby. (The Glen Davis situation could stretch out for a while). Until he signs elsewhere it's always possible Leon Powe could re-sign. Also Stephon Marbury could return. For the sake of this discussion, pencil in one spot taken for these three guys. That's 11.
(Though Baby and Marbury could both be back making it 12...
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