The Celtics ’ first week of training camp is in the books, with plenty of fresh faces debuting in Boston along with some painful offseason losses showing up elsewhere (see: Al Horford ). How do the new parts fit so far in camp, and could the Celtics have done much differently this summer to retain some familiar names? Let’s discuss it all and more in this week’s mailbag.

Hey B,

Al signs for 5.7m and an option for next year? Why couldn’t the C’s afford that? I can understand him wanting to chase another ring which we won’t offer this year but still. Wouldn’t that little amount of $ help to stabilize a lacking front court with both playing time and experience to teach? Thanks, Peter

The Celtics definitely could have afforded that purely based on salary, but the fact that

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