Boston Celtics
Alex Karaban’s pre-draft exercise for Boston reportedly will happen subsequent week.
The Boston Celtics are including prospect exercises to their schedule with one month to go earlier than the 2026 NBA Draft.
One identify reportedly on their pre-draft exercise checklist ought to ring a bell for New Englanders.
The Celtics plan to work out College of Connecticut basketball star ahead Alex Karaban, in line with David Borges of CT Insider. The exercise reportedly will happen subsequent week.
Karaban is ranked No. 32 on ESPN’s high 100 draft prospects checklist. Boston possesses the No. 27 total decide (first spherical) and the No. 40 decide (second spherical).
Karaban, who grew up in Southborough, gained two NCAA championships at UConn (2023 and ‘24) and was named to the All-Large East First-team final season.
He performed all 4 years of his collegiate profession in Storrs, Conn., and was an integral a part of the Huskies’ current success beneath head coach Dan Hurley. Karaban, 23, leaves UConn as one of many winningest Huskies of all time.
Throughout 151 video games, Karaban averaged 12.5 factors, 5.0 rebounds, and a couple of.0 assists per recreation. He completed his faculty profession with a 46.8 area purpose share, 37.4 three-point share, and 84.4 free throw share.
Karaban’s 1,880 factors place him sixth all-time amongst UConn males’s gamers. He’s the winningest participant in program historical past with 126 victories. He’s additionally the all-time chief in video games performed, begins (150), minutes performed (4,906), and three-pointers made (292).
This previous season, through which the Huskies gained the Large East and competed within the National Championship recreation in opposition to Michigan, Karaban was the one participant to begin all 40 video games.
Hurley has lengthy praised Karaban in the course of the participant’s tenure, even calling him one of many program’s best gamers in historical past.
“He’s one of many best gamers that’s worn the uniform,” Hurley said of Karaban on senior day this previous season. “There’s gamers which have gone on from right here and had careers within the NBA, and there’s plenty of them, however after they have been within the uniform, who’s executed greater than this man? Who’s executed extra whereas they wore the uniform than this man? As a result of in sports activities all of it comes right down to, ‘Did you win to your group? Did you win championships? Did you win video games?’
“And that’s why I believe he’s one of many best gamers to place the uniform on.”
Hurley consulted Karaban when considering whether or not or to not take the Los Angeles Lakers head teaching job in 2024.
After falling to the Wolverines within the title recreation, Hurley expressed his gratitude to have coached Karaban for 4 years.
“This man modified my life [and] the employees’s lives,” Hurley said. “The enjoyment he [has] delivered to the college, the fan base, his resolution to come back to UConn. … He [has] helped make UConn, I believe proper now, most likely the premier program in faculty basketball, having been to a few out of 4 nationwide championship video games [and] having gained two of them. He’s put UConn in that rarefied place in faculty basketball. Everybody owes every thing to that man.”
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