Trade season is in full swing with rumors and hints at the plans of much of the NBA starting to percolate up through the league’s media coverage, and the Boston Celtics figure to be squarely in the middle of the action with a strong consensus existing that they will be one of the NBA’s more active teams ahead of the Feb. 10 deadline.
To that end, the Celtics Lab podcast spoke with HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto, one of the leading voices in breaking the early intelligence on the Celtics trade deadline plans so far this season. Scotto engaged the “Celtics Lab” podcast in a wide-ranging interview covering everything from rumbles about Celtics alumnus Jeff Green and Phoenix Suns big man Jalen Smith being tied to Boston all the way to what he’s heard about the team’s interest in Ben Simmons.
The interview below has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity, and is full of nuggets (pun intended) of info heading into the thick of trade season.
Celtics Lab 84: Boston’s 2022 trade deadline intelligence special edition with Michael Scotto https://t.co/36krpJGYbD
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