Payton Pritchard, on a two-year Celtics extension he puts at $22 million a year, says he'd come off the bench if Joe Mazzulla wants: "to me a starter is the amount of minutes you play. Do you finish games? Are you playing 30+ minutes? Then you are a starter"
Jalen Duren isn't all the way back yet. "We're still rounding him into game shape," Jarrett Jack said after the Pistons' game, calling it "the biggest marker probably for us in this whole thing" heading toward Oct. 20. He's also learning a few offensive tweaks.