{"id":136412,"date":"2025-08-11T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:51:09","slug":"celtics-waiving-norris-potentially-clears-path-for-amari-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136412\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Waiving Norris Potentially Clears Path For Amari Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Celtics<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/celtics-waive-two-way-forward-miles-norris.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> today that they were waiving 6\u201910\u201d stretch forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/norrimi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miles Norris<\/a><\/strong>, who was on a two-way deal for them. Norris played three games for the team last season after playing the previous season in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The move may have been made in order to sign <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/william01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amari Williams<\/a><\/strong>, whom the Celtics selected with the 46th pick in the 2025 draft, speculates <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/08\/boston-celtics-waive-lengthy-two-way-forward-opening-up-spot.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Souichi Terada of MassLive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has not yet been signed by the team in any capacity, and two of the team\u2019s three two-way slots are already occupied by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/shulgma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Max Shulga<\/a><\/strong> and the recently-acquired <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/luisrj01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RJ Luis<\/a><\/strong>. That means that by waiving Norris, the team can sign Williams to its third two-way opening.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, a 6\u201911\u201d center out of Kentucky known for his passing ability, played 17.6 minutes for the Celtics\u2019 Summer League team and averaged 6.25 points, five rebounds, and 1.75 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics announced today that they were waiving 6\u201910\u201d stretch forward Miles Norris, who was on a two-way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[22095,81703,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-136412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-amari-williams","9":"tag-miles-norris","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}