Roster cut to 14

October 26, 2007

The Celts waived Dahntay Jones and Jackie Manuel, getting their roster down to 14, one below the NBA maximum. As expected, undrafted rookie Brandon Wallace made the club.

``You never want to release guys obviously, but I thought we needed to get down to the number that we're going to start the season with,'' said Rivers. ``That was important for me. The Dahntay decision was the toughest. He's a veteran and probably right now he could probably help our team more. Maybe later Brandon can - not even this year. So that's a tough one.''

As for getting to 14, Rivers added, ``We wanted to make sure if someone shakes loose or is in the middle of the year we needed to make a move that we had room to do it. But this might be who we are, and I'm fine with that.''