{"id":83277,"date":"2025-07-22T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83277\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:28:12","slug":"celtics-add-ncaa-steals-leader-to-maine-roster-98-5-the-sports-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83277\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics add NCAA steals leader to Maine roster &#8211; 98.5 The Sports Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics are keeping one of their Summer League players in the organization, as they look toward training camp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hayden Gray<\/strong> is being added to the Maine Celtics roster in the G League, according to Noa Dalzell at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24471169\/celtics-summer-league-hayden-gray-maine-celtics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CelticsBlog.com<\/a>. Gray led Division I in steals as a senior at UC San Diego in 2024-25, with 3.1 per game. He also averaged 11.2 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 3.3 assists in 35 games.<\/p>\n<p>UC San Diego won the Big West conference championship over UC Irvine in March. Gray led the Tritons with 22 points in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/game\/_\/gameId\/401743949\/uc-irvine-uc-san-diego\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">14-point victory<\/a>, and of course tied for the game-high with three steals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"MuiBox-root css-catuid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2205308835.jpg\" alt=\"Hayden Gray #3 of the UC San Diego Tritons reacts after a three point basket during the Big West Men's Basketball Tournament Championship game against the UC Irvine Anteaters.\" title=\"\"\/>Photo by Ian Maule\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Gray was an unheralded prospect and went undrafted. He may not be NBA-ready coming out of college, but as a career 39.5% 3-point shooter and a skilled defender, he could develop into a capable combo guard.<\/p>\n<p>He may need to round out his game to make it to the NBA, but Gray is nonetheless an intriguing add to watch as he develops in the G League.<\/p>\n<p>Matt, a North Andover, Massachusetts native, has been with The Sports Hub since 2010. Growing up the son of Boston University All-American and Melrose High School hall-of-fame hockey player Steve Dolloff, sports was always a part of his life. After attending Northeastern University, Matt focused his love of sports on writing, extensively writing about all four major Boston teams. He also is a co-host of the Sports Hub Underground podcast and is a regular on-air contributor on the Sports Hub. Matt writes about all New England sports from Patriots football to Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics are keeping one of their Summer League players in the organization, as they look toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-83277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114897126211932440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83277","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=83277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}