Any savings, even small ones, are going to start being important for the Celtics. They waived Terrence Williams yesterday, thus saving the $200,000 of his contract that would have become guaranteed today with the start of the NBA’s new fiscal year. His late-May arrest stemming from a gun-related incident surely played a role, too. But now that they have shed the contracts of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry, and taken back shorter-term money from the Brooklyn Nets, the Celtics are determined to go into the summer on an austerity kick. Suffice it to say Kris Humphries and Gerald Wallace — the former with an expiring $12 million contract and the latter with the...
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