WATCH: What are the Boston Celtics’ best and worst case scenarios with Evan Fournier?

© Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports 16 points in a playoff game is certainly nothing to sneeze at, but Fournier should have been setting his teammates up more if he isn’t going to score at least 20 a game. And with so many key players out, to do neither is barely acceptable.

Of all the Boston Celtics’ remaining business for the 2021 NBA offseason, nothing looms larger than if — and for how much — the Celtics can re-sign veteran shooting guard Evan Fournier this offseason. Can Boston afford to match whatever external offers the St. Maurice native might get from other teams as an unrestricted free agent?

“I feel like he’s the first [domino] to fall,” relates Boston Sports Journal’s John Karalis on a recent episode of the NBA Boston Sports podcast “Celtics Talk” in conversation with host Chris Forsberg. “In looking at the options out there, Fournier is the best one because you have his Bird Rights.”

The two discuss how a Fournier free agency might go right, as well as taking a hard look at the ways the important order of business could go awry.

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Watch the video embedded above to hear their takes on how the negotiations might play out.

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