{"id":95668,"date":"2025-07-27T02:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95668\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:59:11","slug":"former-celtics-guard-signs-with-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95668\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Celtics guard signs with Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"LcFFTM\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtics<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\/2025\/4\/1\/24397268\/jd-davison-maine-celtics-g-league-mvp-jrue-holiday-nba-jaylen-brown-al-horford-tyler-lashbrook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JD Davison<\/a> has signed a two-way contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedreamshake.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a>, per the NBA transactions log. The Celtics announced they had waived Davison on Wednesday, after he spent the last three seasons on a two-way contract with the organization. <\/p>\n<p id=\"dsOvxe\">The 6\u20191 guard was drafted 53rd overall in 2022 and was with the Maine Celtics for most of the past three seasons. Last year, he won G League MVP after averaging 25.1 points, 7.6 assists, 5.3 rebounds, and 1.5 steals per game. <\/p>\n<p id=\"VrGsA3\">Davison was no longer eligible for a two-way contract with the Celtics, as the maximum two-way contracts a player can sign with one NBA team is three. But players can play on a two-way contract for up to four seasons in total \u2014 so Davison has one remaining year of eligibility. He joins a Rockets team expected to be among the NBA\u2019s contenders, led by former Celtics head coach Ime Udoka and offseason acquisition Kevin Durant. <\/p>\n<p><strong>JD Davison finished his Celtics tenure as a Maine Celtics legend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"pxJLxg\">In his three years with the Celtics, he only appeared in 36 games, averaging 1.9 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 0.9 assists. Davison finished his Celtics\u2019 tenure as the Maine Celtics\u2019 all-time leader in points, assists, and steals. In 2023, he won a championship with the Celtics. <\/p>\n<p id=\"AtYdcR\">At the beginning of last season, Davison\u2019s Celtics teammates took note of his improvements. <\/p>\n<p id=\"8BqiwP\">\u201cYou could tell he took it to another level in training camp,\u201d Jaylen Brown said. \u201cI think he\u2019s been able to learn from our guys, going against Payton [Pritchard], going against Jrue [Holiday] and Derrick [White].\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"gWIaqN\">Jrue Holiday said his experiences playing alongside and against Davison in practice gave him confidence he was going to make it: \u201cHe\u2019s definitely going to be a really good NBA player.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"wcSAMn\">Now, Davison gets one more chance to achieve his ultimate goal of signing an NBA contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Celtics guard JD Davison has signed a two-way contract with the Houston Rockets, per the NBA transactions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[18168,18165,18167,19625,204,4236,4345,5565,17941,358,3187,1917],"class_list":{"0":"post-95668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-boston-celtics-news","9":"tag-celtics","10":"tag-celticsblog","11":"tag-former","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-guard","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-rockets","16":"tag-signs","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114922964372299461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95668","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=95668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}