{"id":166804,"date":"2025-07-13T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/166804\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:04:11","slug":"celtics-brad-stevens-reacts-to-first-round-picks-summer-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/166804\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics\u2019 Brad Stevens reacts to first-round pick\u2019s Summer League debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics got their first look at first-round pick Hugo Gonzalez in the Summer League, and president of basketball operations Brad Stevens likes what he\u2019s seen from the rookie so far.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez made his Celtics debut in Friday\u2019s 92-78 Summer League win over the Grizzlies, posting 12 points (4-12 FG, 3-5 3Pt, 1-5 FT), five assists, four rebounds, two blocks and one steal across 28 minutes. He led the team in both assists and playing time during the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7 wing has had a busy schedule of late, leaving Real Madrid and joining the Celtics shortly after the NBA Draft. Stevens praised his work ethic but acknowledged that the 19-year-old is a work in progress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/07\/brad-stevens-unveils-plan-for-hugo-gonzalez-in-celtics-summer-league.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Brian Robb of MassLive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Brian Robb of MassLive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he really wants to be good,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cYou can tell he\u2019s got a good work ethic, a good compete level. There\u2019s a care factor out there, and you know he\u2019s just learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/boston-celtics\/news\/celtics-could-target-reunion-former-no-6-pick-if-bought-out\/b761bf737fb015c36f4b8550\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Celtics could target reunion with former No. 6 overall pick if bought out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Celtics could target reunion with former No. 6 overall pick if bought out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez recently wrapped up his season with Real Madrid in Liga ACB, where he averaged 5.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and 0.9 assists while shooting 44.4 percent from the field in 14.1 minutes per game across 29 outings.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Despite Stevens reportedly telling him to \u201c&#8230;take a long weekend and come to Boston a couple days later&#8230;,\u201d Gonzalez arrived just two days after being drafted and got right to work.<\/p>\n<p>While he has plenty of room for development, Gonzalez could have a real chance to carve out a role with the Celtics amid a retooling effort driven by financial constraints and Jayson Tatum\u2019s torn right Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics got their first look at first-round pick Hugo Gonzalez in the Summer League, and president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,3164,46,3528,77,6,445,13711],"class_list":{"0":"post-166804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-brad-stevens","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-hugo-gonzalez","15":"tag-jayson-tatum","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-real-madrid","18":"tag-summer-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114843239338074357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}