The Boston Celtics made two big moves to bolster their bench and 2023 NBA Championship hopes this week and managed to do both without giving up a haul of draft assets or key players in their 2022 NBA Finals appearance.
But how good of a job did they do with those moves? Could they have possibly done better with the team using different teambuilding tools that were (and for now still are) available to them than trading for Indiana Pacers point guard Malcolm Brogdon? Were their potentially better fits for their $6.5 million taxpayer midlevel exception (MLE) they used to sign veteran forward Danilo Gallinari?
Let’s dive into the two transactions the Celtics settled on as the centerpiece (we think, anyway) of their 2022 offseason.