Utah signed Springer back in March following the Celtics dealing him away at the trade deadline in a salary dump to the Houston Rockets. Houston immediately waived Springer after thar deal, leading him to sign a 10-day contract with the Jazz and eventually a three-year contract which was largely non-guaranteed.

Davison, last year’s G League MVP, played on two-way contracts in each of his first three seasons with the Celtics, but that is the maximum allowed with one team.

The thinking is that Simmons has never been part of a winning culture and thus has little to offer the development of such players besides soaking up a portion of the minutes in a best-case scenario.

The Boston Celtics cut an NBA champion, a former Celtics player signs in Israel, and Ben Simmons is linked to Boston.

Then, Simmons made his third All-Star team, his second All-NBA team, his second All-Defense team, and he even got votes for both Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of the Y