Wyc Grousbeck revealed that he’s a bit of a message board lurker himself. Following the team’s trade deadline acquisition of Jaden Springer, the Celtics owner shared that he went online to check out how 76ers fans reacted to trading the forward to a division rival.
“What I did, when he traded for him, I looked at the Philly message boards and the fans were really quite upset,” Grousbeck said of Springer while appearing on NBC Sports Boston’s broadcast of Sunday’s Celtics-Wizards game. “Under the comments, they didn’t really want to see him go.”
Grousbeck added that Springer “has a lot of energy,” while Brian Scalabrine believed that Springer “might have slipped through the cracks” in Philadelphia.
“A lot of coaches on the staff are really impressed by him,” Scalabrine added.
The 76ers’ decision to move on from Springer came at a relatively unusual time and seemed to catch some off guard. The 2021 first-round pick still had another year left on his contract and the Celtics only gave up a 2024 second-round pick to acquire him.
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