O’Connor: Celtics ‘among the teams with interest in pursuing a deal for Beal’

The Ringer analyst has heard Boston has plans to try and go after the Wizards guard in the future.

With the 2021 NBA trade deadline firmly in the league’s rear-view mirror, you might think trade chatter is finally about to die down for a while, and by and large you would be right.

But some teams have already trained their eyes on making some big splashes in the future — some, the Boston Celtics likely among them, as soon as this coming offseason. With no big blockbuster of a trade coming at this year’s deadline, many Celtics fans were disappointed. But while there were no fireworks to be had, there was a retention of first-round draft picks the team will need to land any such target.

And The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor believes Boston is already scheming to pry a certain player loose from their current team.