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WATCH: Should the Boston Celtics be buyers or sellers at the NBA trade deadline?

One thing is certain: change is coming.

While it may seem all but certain that change will be coming to the Boston Celtics‘ roster before the 2021-22 NBA trade season ends, it is not as clear what shape that change will end up taking. The team is hovering around .500 for yet another season, yet shows flashes of being able to compete against the very best teams in the league when healthy and focused.

Should the Celtics push their chips in for a major move in hopes of making the leap to contender status, or do they still have some work to do to make the roster work the way it ought to with two All-Star wing talents already on the roster?

The hosts of the CLNS Media podcast “Celtics Beat” Evan Valenti and Adam Kaufman got into this very topic with special guest Sean Deveney of Heavy to try and divine whether or not the team ought to be buyers or sellers at the deadline.

Watch the clip embedded above to hear their takes on what might be one of the most pivotal trade seasons for the franchise in a decade.

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WATCH: Which NBA players are most likely on their way to a new team by February?

Who will likely be sporting new uniforms by February?

December 15th has come and gone, and for fans of the NBA and Boston Celtics, that means the unofficial start to the league’s 2021-22 trade season has come and with it all the player movement that both frustrates and fascinates us.

Which rumors have substance, and which are classic examples of throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks? It can be a chore to suss out what has fire behind the smoke when one sees news so-and-so player may be on the move soon. But there are clues out there that can help guide our understanding, and experts happy to share them, such as the hosts of the “NBA Front Office” podcast.

Hosts Trevor Lane and Keith Smith put out a recent episode dedicated to knowing which NBA players will likely change teams this season, who might be trading in their old uniforms for a new one, and which players won’t be on a new team anytime soon.

Watch the clip embedded above to get their critical intel on the mechanics driving such action, and be a step ahead of your friends as a result.

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Celtics Lab 79: Sorting out the Boston Celtics’ future with Rohan Nadkarni

This episode, Sports Illustrated’s Rohan Nadkarni helps us try and divine what the Boston Celtics might be up to ahead of the 2022 NBA trade deadline.

With a brutally tough schedule, early-season injuries and new additions to the Boston Celtics’ roster and coaching staff making an evaluation of the team an uphill battle, the franchise will soon have to make tough decisions about the direction of the team in the short term that could have reverberations across a much longer-term context.

Is this team good enough now to make a deep postseason run? Does it need minor changes to inch towards contention? A major tear down? A complete overhaul? And do they have the tools they need for the path that makes the most sense?

On the latest episode of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, your usual hosts Justin Quinn, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Alex Goldberg are joined by renowned Celtics podcaster homerism foil Rohan Nadkarni of Sports Illustrated.

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Nadkarni helps temper our optimism in key areas as we four try and divine what sort of moves Boston will make as the trade season gets underway.

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While the business of sniffing out agendas in trade rumors may be an annoyance at this time of year, the potential for novelty that will drive future success is always a compelling topic.

So, buckle up and dive into this episode with us to get up to speed on who might be joining the Celtics soon — and who is likely leaving.

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Is it time to ‘shake up the Celtics’? Per one prominent analyst, yes

The question for them is how much do they need to move on from their current core, not if.

It is hard to look at this Boston Celtics roster, a game under .500 and now in their third season with admittedly high expectations not being met, and convince oneself that underneath all the bad luck, poor fits, and substandard returns that there are the seeds of a real contender here without making some moves.

So it probably should not surprise that this perspective seems to be a growing consensus among fans and analysts alike, and not just because the potential novelty of trade season is upon us. The team needs change, but young teams working their way into something better have needed such change as long as the sport has allowed them.

Such is the perspective of The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor, who compares the Celtics of today to another iteration of the team that couldn’t get over the hump. “One of my most prominent childhood sports memories is Antoine Walker getting traded,” begins O’Connor in a recent column.