Last night, Dennis Schroder looked like an $84 million player, not the player who signed with the Celtics at the end of the summer for the mid-level exception. In front of a national television audience and the TD Garden faithful, he looked like the Sixth Man of the Year candidate that reinvigorated his career in Oklahoma City, not the mercurial point guard that left the Lakers.
Schroder scored a season-high 38 points with three assists in a 122-113 overtime win against the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks. Like the Celtics as a whole, he had been trending up over the last week and on Friday night, he put together his game in Boston so far.