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Rookie sharpshooter Andre Dawkins has been informed by the Celtics that he'll get another 10 day contract. Obviously the team has liked what they've seen, even if he hasn't logged a single minute with the parent team yet. He's played 4 games and averaged 20 points per game for the Maine Red Claws.
"It's good," he said after receiving a DNP-CD in Sunday's 83-75 loss to Miami. "I get another 10 days with the team and obviously keep learning, try to get a little bit better every day."
"They're not really worried about me shooting the ball," he said. "They know I'm going to be able to do that. It's more so what I can get better at, and a lot of that's at the defensive end. The team defensive concepts are a little different than what we did in Miami, so it's been an adjustment trying to learn how they want to play certain things, certain pick-and-rolls here and there. It's been good to be (in Maine) to get a lot of reps at it and try to get better at it."
If the team makes some moves at the deadline, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Dawkins get a non-guaranteed contract that takes him through the rest of this season with a team option to keep him on for next year as well. The Celtics could very well have a lot of rookies and young players by the time summer league play starts (they currently have 5 draft picks to use this summer), but Dawkins has that one super-power skill that many teams covet. Perhaps enough to find room on the roster for him going forward.