Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla had a question to answer about his bench entering the 2025-26 NBA season. Who was going to get the bulk of minutes as bench wings? A preseason competition emerged between rookie stud Hugo González, Jordan Walsh, and Baylor Scheierman, and González ended up winning that battle.

Walsh has recently become a fixture of Boston’s rotation, too, leaving Scheierman the odd man out of the young trio.

When Celtics star Jaylen Brown was talking about Boston’s bench depth the other day, he didn’t mention Scheierman. This wasn’t an intentional slight or anything from JB, but more so an indication or reminder to us that Scheierman has more or less fallen off the map of Mazzulla’s game plan on a nightly basis.

“Jordan, Hugo, and Josh (Minott), you know, they’ve

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