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Five players to watch to use the Evan Fournier traded player exception on

Boston has become adept with the use of non-simultaneous trades, and have three of note to work with.

The Boston Celtics have become pioneers in the art of juggling traded player exceptions (TPEs) to maintain cap flexibility and manage their overall luxury tax burden, deftly using second-round draft picks to allow the franchise to add or deal away players

The team possesses three such TPEs of note on top of two smaller ones (for $500,000 from the Moses Brown trade and for $370,564 from the Jeff Teague trade). The smaller ones are unlikely to be used given that such exceptions are the space into which a team completes a non-simultaneous trade. That means any player incoming will need to make no more than $100,000 above the dollar amount in each TPE, which cannot be combined or added to otherwise.

Apart from those, Boston has TPEs for $17.1 million from the Evan Fournier trade, $9.7 million from the Tristan Thompson deal, and just over $5 million left from the Kemba Walker trade. They expire July 18, July 7, and May 17 respectively. Today, we’ll look at some of our favorite options the Celtics could trade for with the Fournier TPE.

Trade rumor rankings: Ben Simmons, Collin Sexton and more

HoopsHype ranks the five players who have appeared most on our Trade Rumors Page over the past week, headlined by Ben Simmons.

Early on Tuesday, we were hit with a bomb from The Athletic that placed various high-profile players into the thick of trade speculation and caused a stir among NBA aficionados.

Who were those players?

You can find out below in the latest installment of our Trade Rumor Rankings series, which ranks the five players who have appeared most on our Trade Rumors Page over the previous seven days.

With such a massive report to go over, there’s no time to waste, so let’s jump right in.