While Jrue Holiday’s rookie season with the Boston Celtics has gone well, the 33-year-old needs to find a middle ground with the front office if he wants to be a member of the team for the foreseeable future.
Since Jaylen Brown, Kristaps Porzingis, and Payton Pritchard signed contract extensions before the regular season began, there has been little progress on Holiday’s looming contract dispute. The three-time NBA Teammate of the Year was able to return to a title contender after the Celtics traded away Malcolm Brogdon and Robert Williams III to obtain Holiday from the Portland Trail Blazers.
That still begs the question: what’s next for Holiday and the Celtics?
“I believe it’s necessary to observe how things unfold during the playoffs,” an unidentified Eastern Conference executive informed Sean Deveney of Heavy.com. “It’s risky because you’re under pressure to give him a big contract if they win that easily and make it to the Finals.” However, if you give Jrue Holiday a lot of attention now and they falter in the postseason and lose in the second round, where are you then?
Holiday isn’t the No. 1 or No. 2 scoring option for Boston. But… considering Holiday was the defensive captain in the 2021 NBA Finals for the Milwaukee Bucks, and has assumed said duties alongside Derrick White with the Celtics, expectations will still be high. That won’t change.
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