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Windhorst: ‘Celtics are not necessarily in’ on a Bradley Beal trade

“Their intention is to get Jaylen Brown on a contract extension this year,” shared the ESPN reporter.

If the Boston Celtics have any interest in dealing for Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal after news broke that the onetime Florida standout is likely to be moved this offseason, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst hasn’t heard about it.

On a recent episode of “NBA Today,”  Windhorst related that his “feel from talking to sources is that the Celtics are not necessarily in on this one.”

“Their intention is to get Jaylen Brown on a contract extension this year,” he continued. “Even if they got Jaylen Brown done, the idea of bringing in Bradley Beal would be extraordinarily difficult because of the three contracts together.”

With Beal already on a supermax contract and both Brown and Celtics co-star Jayson Tatum eligible for and likely to sign their own, balancing three such deals under the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement will be difficult, to say the least.

The Celtics could of course swap Brown for Beal to address such cap concerns, but with four remaining years and another three seasons of heavy usage on Beal’s injury-prone lower extremities, such a move would be a lateral one in the very best of outcomes.

“I don’t think any conversation that involves trading Jaylen Brown is something the Celtics are super interested in right now,” observed Windhorst, signaling Boston has come to a similar conclusion.

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Three potential lower-cost depth targets for the Boston Celtics in free agency

A recent Bleacher Report analysis highlights a pair of wings and a big Boston ought to keep tabs in in free agency.

The Boston Celtics will have their work cut out for them this offseason as they try to beef up their roster in pursuit of a title in the 2023-23 season with one of the most expensive payrolls in the league before they add a single body to their ball cub just as the first elements of the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) designed to punish teams like Boston start to come into effect.

In layman’s terms, that means the Celtics will not have much money to work with this offseason, limited to whatever they can do with the taxpayer midlevel exception and veteran minimum deals available to them.

Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley put together a trio of potentially low-cost targets for the Celtics to pursue in free agency with those limits in place for Boston — let’s see which players the B/R analyst believes are both attainable in that range and a good fit.

Have the Boston Celtics added enough to their coaching staff?

The Celtics continue to put in work on retooling the team in their pursuit of a banner, including the coaching staff under head coach Joe Mazzulla.

Now that the 2023 NBA Finals have come to a close with the Denver Nuggets beating the Miami Heat in five games to win their first title in the league, the Boston Celtics are working on retooling the team in their own pursuit of a banner. That retooling includes the coaching staff under head coach Joe Mazzulla.

After signing former Boston champion point guard and (more recently) Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Sam Cassell to be an assistant under Mazzulla, Boston went out and added ex-Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Charles Lee to be the lead assistant for 2023-24.

Join the hosts of the CLNS Media “Vitamin Cs” podcast Tim Sheils and Wayne “Breezie” Brown in the video embedded below as they give their immediate reactions and takeaways to the news, including Grant Williams’ surgery and how it may affect his free agency.

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What is Brad Stevens up to with the Boston Celtics? | Charles Lee hired, Grant surgery and other offseason tales

Who is new lead assistant coach Charles Lee? Why is this a sneaky-good hire for the Celtics? How will he work with former Boston champion floor general and now Celtics assistant coach Sam Cassell?

Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens has been a very busy man since the Celtics were beaten by the Miami Heat in Game 7 of the 2023 Eastern Conference finals, making use of the NBA’s 2023 offseason to retool and rebalance Boston’s cap sheet and roster.

The Celtics president has been hard at work filling the gaps that kept Boston from advancing in the East finals by adding to head coach Joe Mazzulla’s bench of assistants.

Who is new lead assistant coach Charles Lee? Why is this a sneaky-good hire for the Celtics? How will he work with former Boston champion floor general and new Celtics assistant Sam Cassell? What was up with Grant Williams’ offseason surgery, and can Boston improve the Bus 1 Boys?

The hosts of the “First to the Floor” podcast did their best to address all of the above on a recent episode.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about what team president Brad Stevens has been up to this offseason.

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How much of an upgrade have the Boston Celtics made to their bench?

How important have the additions of Cassell and Lee as assistants been to Boston’s designs on contention next season?

The Boston Celtics added Sam Cassell and Charles Lee, two experienced assistant coaches, to their staff under head coach Joe Mazzulla for the 2023-24 NBA season. Cassell was part of the Celtics’ 2008 title team and has worked under Doc Rivers for most of his coaching career on the staff of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Philadelphia 76ers.

Lee has been considered for head coaching jobs (most recently with the Detroit Pistons) and brings valuable experience from his time under coach Mike Budenholzer with the Milwaukee Bucks. The additions of Cassell and Lee address the need for a veteran presence on the coaching staff and hints the Celtics are listening to their players who have advocated for more diversity on the bench.

To hear more details about Boston’s recent bench hires, check out the clip embedded below put together by the hosts of the “Green with Envy” podcast.

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On the Boston Celtics hiring Charles Lee as Joe Mazzulla’s lead assistant coach

How are we feeling about the Celtics’ revamped bench of assistants under Mazzulla?

The Boston Celtics have hired Charles Lee, the former Milwaukee Bucks associate head coach, as Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla’s lead assistant. The move comes on the heels of former Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach (and Boston champion guard) Sam Cassell joining Mazzulla’s bench for the Celtics’ next run at a title.

The Boston hire comes after the Toronto Raptors hired former Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach Darko Rajakovic as their head coach, closing the door on the league’s last open head coaching vacancy for the season to come. How are we feeling about the Celtics’ revamped bench of assistants under Mazzulla?

CLNS Media’s Bobby Manning reports on a coach many around the wider Boston media sphere have clamored to join the Celtics organization in such a capacity — and one who nearly became the Detroit Pistons’ head coach earlier this summer.

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How does the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement affect a Jaylen Brown supermax extension?

The Boston Celtics face a potentially significant increase in their luxury tax bill in future seasons – what could be the effect on a Brown extension?

The Boston Celtics face a potentially significant increase in their luxury tax bill in future seasons under the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), especially if they give Jaylen Brown a supermax contract extension that will be worth nearly $300 million over the next five seasons.

To accommodate Brown’s supermax, the team may need to trade away players with mid-level salaries and downgrade the roster in the short term given the ball club’s ownership group’s willingness to pay a high tax bill is uncertain on the scale going into the so-called “supertax” or second apron by bringing back the team as it was last season.

There are other paths to a contending team that strike a balance between taking steps back or going hard into the tax available also.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what the hosts of the CLNS Media “First to the Floor” podcast has to say about the range of options available to the team to build a contender for 2023-24.

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Woj: Celtics ‘finalizing a deal’ to hire Bucks’ Charles Lee as lead assistant coach

The news comes not long after word that Sam Cassell will also be joining Boston head coach Joe Mazzulla’s staff for next season.

Another piece in the puzzle that is the Boston Celtics’ 2023-24 bench of assistant coaches appears to be clicking into place, with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reporting that Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Charles Lee is “finalizing a deal to join the … Celtics as the lead assistant coach”.

“Lee had been the associate head coach with Milwaukee and a finalist for the Toronto (Raptors) and Detroit (Pistons) head (coaching) job,” added Woj. The news comes not long after word that longtime Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Clippers assistant (and former Celtics champion point guard) Sam Cassell will also be joining Boston head coach Joe Mazzulla’s staff for next season.

A lack of depth plagued Mazzulla’s bench last season after losing Ime Udoka to his suspension and eventual ouster as head coach, but also assistant Will Hardy to the Utah Jazz and Damon Stoudamire late in the 2022-23 regular season to Georgia Tech for their respective top coaching gigs.

The level of urgency has since picked up with word that much of what remained of Mazzulla’s coaching staff was likely to join Udoka in Houston after the former Boston head coach got the top job with that organization.

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Should the Boston Celtics pursue Chris Paul if he is waived by the Phoenix Suns?

Would it mean the Celtics would move on from one of their guards?

As the 2023 NBA Finals take place without the Boston Celtics, the rest of the league waits to kick off their offseason and retool their rosters. One of those teams, the Phoenix Suns, is looking at making some big moves with their roster, including potentially waiving veteran point guard and former superstar Chris Paul.

While toward the tail end of his Hall of Fame career, CP3 is still an elite playmaker in short bursts and arguably a top-five floor general in the history of the NBA. In the event he is waived, should the Celtics try to court the veteran? Would it mean the Celtics would move on from one of their guards?

Join the hosts of the CLNS Media “Garden Report” podcast as they discuss and debate a potential move for Chris Paul in the clip embedded below.

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Should the Boston Celtics have traded Jaylen Brown for Kevin Durant?

Some analysts are pondering whether the Celtics should have traded Jaylen Brown for KD when they could have.

At the end-of-season presser, Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens expressed a strong desire to keep star wing Jaylen Brown on the team. However, tension between Brown and the Celtics still seems to exist, possibly related to previous trade rumors that connected him to now-Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant as a potential trade option.

It could also be related to the fact that a small but vocal subset of analysts and fans have been putting Brown into every trade machine they see after the Georgia native’s tough showing in the 2023 East finals, but it could also simply be a product of Brown staying quiet about a supermax extension he doesn’t want to lose leverage with.

Some of the weird vibes from the end of the season had the hosts of the Athletic “NBA Show” podcast pondering whether the Celtics should have traded Jaylen Brown for Kevin Durant when they had the chance.

Check out the clip embedded below to hear where they came down on Brown’s future in Boston.

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