A season ago, at the NBA’s 2023 trade deadline, reserve Boston Celtics combo guard Payton Pritchard wanted to see the floor so badly, he asked to be traded to another team. Instead, the Celtics found a way to get him into the rotation more, especially this season, and the change has been good for both sides. “You go through stretches, you aren’t playing well,” he explained via MassLive’s Souichi Terada. “It’s tough.”
