To call it a burden wouldn't be right.

Most rookies would vault over each other for the opportunity that will be presented to Marcus Banks starting today, when Celtics rookies and players with three or less years experience begin workouts.

Though veterans don't join in the two-a-day sessions in Waltham until Friday, Banks might as well count himself in the older group, considering the level of responsibility that is about to be put on his shoulders this season.

When Celtics coach Jim O'Brien and director of basketball operations Danny Ainge talk of improving their team's running game, it is with a vision of Banks at the controls.

That will mean directing his celebrated teammates, Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce, in the offense. That will mean not being shy. That will mean speaking up to his elders. Anyone who has come to know the Las Vegas native this summer, of course, knows that the vocal part isn't likely to be a problem.

Via Boston Herald

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