Any time we hear rumbles about potentially available players going on trade market the Boston Celtics are sure to come up with a $28.5 million traded player exception (TPE), and Boston may well really be lurking on the margins to probe potential viability for the team.
Those players this time around are a pair of New Orleans Pelicans guards reportedly being inquired about with a receptive Pels organization fielding offers for the duo — J.J. Redick and Lonzo Ball — per the Athletic’s Shams Charania. With the Feb. 2 deadline to trade for players aggregatable in a deal made on the 2021 Mar. 25 trade deadline looming and Feb. 6 (the date most players signed in the offseason can be traded) not far behind, we can expect moves for players like these two to begin in earnest soon.
But do either make any sense for the Celtics?