Did the Boston Celtics ‘master the Deal Zone’ at the 2022 NBA trade deadline?

What’s the ‘Deal Zone,’ you ask? Read and find out.

Did the Boston Celtics “master the Deal Zone” at the 2022 NBA trade deadline? Such is the question posed by Defector’s Chris Thompson in a recent trade deadline roundup article trying to assess how each of the league’s 30 teams did dealing players at a deadline that saw 22 of the 30 clubs in the NBA move players and/or assets in a trade last Thursday.

You might be wondering what exactly the “Deal Zone” is if you were not as glued to your device(s) all the live-long day as many of us were, which was a weird little sobriquet for the negotiations that definitely were not happening until they were done between the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets regarding a one James Harden.

But you aren’t here to read about that, so let’s check out what Thompson thinks about Boston’s “Deal Zone” performance.