Anfernee Simons hits Cavs with logo dagger

The Boston Celtics have rebounded from an 0-3 start to the season to win back-to-back games. The Celtics’ latest win came against the Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that could emerge as a contender in the Eastern Conference. The Celtics rolled to a win in blowout fashion, and Anfernee Simons poured salt onto the wound for the Cavs when he buried a three-pointer from the logo to give the Celtics a 17-point lead.

Anfernee Simons’ logo three-pointer came late in the third quarter and it he ended up banking it in to beat the shot clock. During the Celtics’ win against the Cavs, Simons finished with 14 points and two assists in a little over 26 minutes of play. He shot 4-of-9 from the field and that logo shot was one of the four three-point shots he knocked down in the game (4-of-6). He also shot 2-of-2 from the free-throw line.

Simons was originally acquired by the Celtics in an offseason trade with the Portland Trail Blazers that saw Jrue Holiday shipped to Portland. Simons has developed into a solid NBA player, he just didn’t garner much national attention due to playing on a team that was tanking.

The No. 24 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, Simons played the first seven years of his career with the Blazers. Coming into Wednesday’s game, Simons had played in all four Celtics games to that point, at a little over 28 minutes per game.

He’s been coming off the bench for the Celtics and averaging 15.0 points, 3.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.3 steals with splits of 46.9 percent shooting from the field, 36.7 percent shooting from the three-point line and 75 percent shooting from the free-throw line. His field goal percentage is a career-high so far.

Simons has averaged double digits in scoring in the past four seasons, and hit over 20 points per game in 2022-23 and 2023-24.