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PJ Washington #25 of the Charlotte Hornets shoots the ball against Jake Layman #10 of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Boston Celtics continue to expand their roster for training camp. On Sept. 12, CLNS Media’s Bobby Manning confirmed the Celtics’ latest addition to their training camp, Jake Layman. A Massachusetts native, Layman was born and raised in Norwood while attending high school in Wrentham, and spent his six-year NBA career with the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves.

source to @CLNSMedia: Jake Layman will join #Celts on a training camp deal with a chance to make the list. The six-year veteran forward has most recently played for the Timberwolves for the past three seasons after starting his career with the Blazers.

— Bobby Manning (@RealBobManning) 09/12/2022

While Layman is in training camp, meaning there’s no guarantee he’ll make the roster, many Celtics fans were thrilled to have a Massachusetts native on the team.

Layman is one of several NBA players to hail from Massachusetts, including Nerlens Noel, Pat Connaughton, Bruce Brown and Georges Niang. Layman isn’t the only Massachusetts native on the Celtics roster, having become the second to join the roster this summer after signing Noah Vonleh, a native of Salem.

Of the 45 players in NBA history who hail from Massachusetts, 10 of them, including Layman and Vonleh, have reportedly played for the Celtics Basketball ReferenceThis includes:

-Dana Barros
– Bob Bigelow
– Jack Foley
– Chris Lords
-Toby Kimball
– Tony Lavelli
– Lou Tsiropoulos
– Wayne Turner

Keith Smith’s interpretation of Layman

Following Manning’s account of Layman joining the Celtics, CelticsBlog’s Keith Smith also yelled at Layman for being from Massachusetts, while also referencing an article he wrote on March 28.

In Smith’s articlehe listed the pros and cons of adding layman.

“Jake Layman is a local (he attended King Phillip Regional High School in Wrentham) who has NBA experience. He’s more of a threesome, but he’s big enough to occasionally play the foursome. Layman is athletic and has the reputation but not the performance of a shooter. He doesn’t offer much creativity for himself or others.

“Defensively, Layman has the tools to be a better defender than he has shown in his career. To date, Layman has not played as a defenseman with either the Portland Trail Blazers or the Minnesota Timberwolves.”

Layman made 34 appearances for the Timberwolves in the 2021-22 season. where he averaged 2.4 points, 1.1 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 6.8 minutes per game while shooting 41.1 percent from the field and 22.9 percent from three.

List of Celtics training camps

On 09/12 Manning confirmed this in his report Regarding Layman’s addition that the Celtics also include Justin Jackson, who signed a 10-day contract with the team last season and played for their 2022 NBA Summer League team, and Denzel Valentine, who spent time with her G -League affiliates, brought in , the Maine Celtics, last season.

Alongside those three, the Celtics also have Vonleh, who last played for the Brooklyn Nets in 2021, and Bruno Caboclo, who last played for the Houston Rockets in 2022, who are in contention for the team’s remaining three spots on the list.

With those five, along with the two Celtics players on two-way contracts – JD Davison and Mfiondu Kabengele – their training camp roster is now up to 19 players, just one just short of the limit. Only time will tell if the Celtics add that 20th body, just as time will tell if any of these boot camp invitees make the final list.

That is, if any of them even make the final list.

Celtic’s Twitter celebrates the new signing’s homecoming