The Boston Celtics reportedly tendered a hefty offer to get their hands on former New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, according to Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer.
While the eldest Holiday in the league ultimately ended up with the Milwaukee Bucks after that team pushed all their chips in for the defensively-oriented combo guard, the offer the Celtics reportedly had was otherwise very competitive, according to Fischer.
Evidently, as were the offers tendered by several other competing teams around the NBA.
“The Boston Celtics offered Gordon Hayward plus their three first-round picks in last week’s draft, it is said,” suggests the Bleacher Report writer. “Atlanta is known to have discussed the No. 6 pick, Dewayne Dedmon and sharpshooting youngster Kevin Huerter. Denver and Dallas were also rumored as significant suitors.”
After news broke that Hayward’s new team, the Charlotte Hornets, and Boston have worked out a sign-and-trade circulating, it sounds as if we are very close to the end of this particular saga.
Woj: Celtics, Hornets have worked on sign-and-trade, looking for 3rd team https://t.co/aEFYJkJlr3
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) November 25, 2020
With its completion, we will have likely seen most of the big moves of the offseason along with several related moves like this one and the failed deal between the Celtics and the Pacers for Hayward’s services that never came to be.
Though still too early to judge the moves that did happen against the potential of such counterfactual possibilities, it’s still hard not to linger them.
Wondering how things might be different if these alternative directions — or Hayward’s first game as a Celtic — had worked out.
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