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Who could the Boston Celtics target with the Grant Williams traded player exception?

Tthe Charlotte native’s new deal netted the Celtics a $6.2 million traded player exception.

Fans of the Boston Celtics were rightfully irked by the mediocre return they received from the Dallas Mavericks in the sign-and-trade of restricted free agent Grant Williams. Some second-round picks were the focal point.

But the Charlotte native’s new deal netted the Celtics a $6.2 million traded player exception (TPE), smaller than his actual deal value due to base year compensation rules. The Celtics would likely need to make other moves for the TPE to be usable financially, but it bring in a helpful player or two in the right situation.

In a recent episode of the “How Bout Them Celtics!” podcast, the hosts take a look at five trade targets the Celtics could go after with the new Grant Williams TPE. The list includes Saddiq Bey, Precious Achiuwa and more.

Check out the clip embedded above to hear their thoughts on who Boston could target.

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Report: Boston looking to use $5.8 million traded player excepton ahead of 2023 NBA trade deadline

“It’s clear to us that Brad (Stevens) has the go-ahead to add tax money because all of our conversations would be TPE trades for them,” said a source from an opposing front office.

The Boston Celtics reportedly are looking to make use of their $5.8 million traded player exception (TPE) set to expire the day after the 2023 NBA trade deadline on Feb. 9, according to new reporting from Celtics Blog’s Keith Smith. Per Smith, the TPE generated by the trade of Dennis Schroder to the Houston Rockets last season has been a focus of the Celtics in recent days.

“We haven’t talked (about) a player who makes more than $6 million with Boston,” shared an anonymous source. “They’re offering picks and minor players for our low-salary guys. They want to use that TPE.”

“It’s clear to us that Brad (Stevens) has the go-ahead to add tax money because all of our conversations would be TPE trades for them,” said a source from an opposing front office.

We’re taking the temperature on the most recent rumbles on what we’re hearing about Boston’s trade plans. https://t.co/sZBvH5rQ0H

— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) February 7, 2023

“We just don’t have anyone that’s a fit for that kind of deal, but the Celtics are trying to use it,” they added.

With the team’s core rotation mainly set to the tune of the best record in the league, this is the sort of move Boston is widely seen to be looking to make ahead of the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline.

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Don’t expect the Boston Celtics to use their remaining traded player exceptions (TPEs)

This team might already be nearly finished, and TPEs aren’t the only tool Boston uses, no matter how it might feel sometimes.

The Boston Celtics have become among the NBA’s most expert users of the traded player exception (TPE), the cap management quirk that lets trades be completed asynchronously — not at the same time for both sides. After the team elected not to use its massive, $17.1 million TPE generated by the departure of shooting guard Evan Fournier to the New York Knicks, the team still has two more fairly substantial TPEs it could use.

Not everyone thinks the Celtics will since they added Malcolm Brogdon and Danilo Gallinari via trade and the mini-midlevel exception, respectively — even with the third center not yet decided.

One such person is Heavy’s Sean Deveney, who recently was the guest of the CLNS Media “Celtics Beat” podcast, during which he and hosts Evan Valenti and Adam Kaufman discussed the potential fate of those remaining TPEs.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what the trio had to say about the future use of TPEs by the Celtics.

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Did the Boston Celtics waste a golden opportunity by letting their $17.1 million TPE expire?

Or was it the right call given all the other moves the team had made?

Did the Boston Celtics make a major mistake by letting the $17.1 million traded player exception expire this month?

The TPE was generated by Evan Fournier’s sign-and-trade to the New York Knicks. The party line has been that there were no suitable targets to be absorbed into the cap space the exception carved out.

However, there would have been a serious luxury tax bill to pay as well. That would have been another factor involved in allowing it to expire, even if it is not mentioned in official conversations.

Did the Celtics screw up here? Or did the team do enough this offseason to not need this particular tool?

On a recent episode of the CLNS Media “Celtics Beat” podcast, this topic came up for debate.

Watch the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about the TPE expiration in light of where things stand with the team now.

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Celtics Lab 130: Goodbye, Las Vegas, RIP TPE; Hello NBA doldrums

As the NBA media cycle starts to wind down, join us on the Celtics Lab to wrap up the busy part of the offseason while we wait for training camp to kick off in late summer.

The 2022 NBA 2K23 Las Vegas Summer League has come and gone in the same way the Boston Celtics’ $17.1 million Evan Fournier Traded Player Exception (TPE) has, leaving the Celtics close to being done (we think, anyway) with their offseason team building plans and fans of the ball club with NBA-related content of current news.

As the period of the league calendar unaffectionately known as the “doldrums” — named after the part of the Atlantic sailing ships used to avoid lest they be trapped in a literal sea of inactivity or movement — settles in, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast take a look at what might be left to do with Boston’s roster, what might have been with the TPE, and grill host Cameron Tabatabaie about what the Sin City NBA experience is like behind the scenes.

Joined by your usual hosts Justin Quinn and Alex Goldberg, they also get you up to date on the trickle of news still coming in, and even throw some darts at what the NBA could do to spice up a midseason tournament Commissioner Adam Silver has been trying to spark interest in.

As the NBA media cycle starts to wind down, join us on the Celtics Lab to wrap up the busy part of the offseason while we wait for training camp to kick off in late summer.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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The Boston Celtics chose not to use their $17.1 traded player exception – now what?

There is still some work to be done to complete the roster for next season; what are the Celtics’ options?

The Boston Celtics’ $17.1 million traded player exception (TPE) generated by wing Evan Fournier’s sign-and-trade to the New York Knicks last offseason has officially expired despite the seemingly endless speculation of what the team might try to do with it.

After the trade for Indiana Pacers veteran point guard Malcolm Brogdon, there was less need and a larger luxury tax bill for the team’s ownership to consider, and with no slam-dunk offers available to use the TPE in a way that made sense, it was allowed to expire. But, the Celtics do still have to make a few more moves to complete the team with a title run in mind, starting with finding a backup big man and likely ending with filling at least one other of the three spots currently unfilled on Boston’s roster .

What comes next for the Celtics? The host of the “Locked on Celtics” podcast John Karalis was recently joined by Celtics Blog’s Keith Smith to try and get a bead on exactly that question.

Watch the clip embedded above to hear what they think Boston will do next.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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Report: Celtics unlikely to use Fournier traded player exception before it expires at midnight, July 18

The $17.1 million exception was the NBA’s largest.

For those among us hoping for news of a player being traded into the Boston Celtics’ Evan Fournier traded player exception (TPE), Monday will be a bit of a disappointment with new reporting from Boston Sports Journal’s John Karalis relating that the $17.1 million TPE generated by Fournier’s sign and trade to the New York Knicks about a year ago will go unused.

Per Karalis, he is hearing “nothing good enough came along” to use the exception on for the Celtics, who will let it expire instead. The TPE would have allowed Boston to bring a player or players into their roster earning up to $17.2 million total in salary this coming 2022-23 season, but the cost to do so would have been steep given the Celtics would dive deep into luxury tax territory as a result of such a move.

The presumptive ask of teams with players Boston might want to add combined with the depth the team already managed to put together likely made such a deal unpalatable to the team’s front office.

After adding Danilo Gallinari and Malcolm Brogdon to last season’s finals runner-up can’t be far if not in the lead. https://t.co/grZ8QWNdlf

— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) July 18, 2022

With two more substantial TPEs at their disposal that won’t expire until the trade deadline close to the mini-midlevel exception salary of $6.5 million, the Celtics are still in a position to add a player via trade without sending back salary.

But with so much depth and the roster cost associated with that depth, it seems more likely that at least some salary would be going out, particularly once any of the depth players Boston will likely add in the coming days and week to fill out the last of their open roster slots have been with the team long enough to be traded in December.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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Will the Boston Celtics use their $17.1 million traded player exception before it expires?

The Evan Fournier traded player exception expires July 18.

The Boston Celtics are reportedly on the hunt to use their $17.1 million traded player exception (TPE) before it expires today (July 18) to add to their bench rotation as they gear up for a run at the 2023 NBA championship.

What is Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens’ next move? Will it be a backup big man as expected or could another candidate emerge? Or will the TPE end up expiring unused because no team wants to play ball with the Celtics?

The Athletic’s NBA insider Jared Weiss joined the host of the CLNS Media “Celtics Beat” host Adam Kaufman to discuss what the Celtics plans and possibilities for the rest of the 2022 offseason might be.

Check out the clip embedded above to hear what they think will happen today with the TPE.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

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Could we all be wrong about the Boston Celtics not using their $17.1 million TPE?

Word is the team is still exploring ways in which they could put it to use.

The conventional wisdom around the NBA after the Boston Celtics elected to trade for Indiana Pacers point guard Malcolm Brogdon was that the team was unlikely to use its $17.1 million traded player exception to take on more salary after the Brogdon deal pushed them well into the league’s luxury tax range. But, new reporting from The Athletic’s Jared Weiss suggests that might not be the case.

“The Celtics are still exploring opportunities to utilize the $17.1 million Evan Fournier trade exception (TPE) that expires on July 18,” writes Weiss, who notes that any such use would likely be part of a trade sending out a rotation player “or to acquire someone on a relatively small salary.”

The team still needs a sturdier presence in the paint as a style of reserve big man not currently on the roster who might also be able to play big regular-season minutes.

Three potential backup big man signings options for the Boston Celtics https://t.co/pthSccrLmx

— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) July 6, 2022

Such a trade might be a possible way for the team to roll some of the utility of the TPE forward without losing all of the resource — and without incurring a monstrous tax bill with Boston already about $20 million into the tax.

With Weiss’ sources suggesting we’ll be seeing much less of Al Horford in the regular season to preserve him for the playoffs, using that TPE might prove a critical tool.

This post originally appeared on Celtics Wire.

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Celtics reportedly not planning to use $17.1 million TPE after Malcolm Brogdon trade

The team is reportedly looking for a backup big man among several open slots to fill, though.

With the Boston Celtics currently in the neighborhood of being around at least $15 million over the NBA’s tax line after trading big man Daniel Theis, wing Aaron Nesmith, and a handful of other players for Indiana Pacers point guard Malcolm Brogdon, it is still possible for the team to add a player making up to $17.1 million with the traded player exception (TPE) generated last season by Evan Fournier’s exit to the New York Knicks.

However, the Boston Herald’s Mark Murphy is reporting that at least for the present, the Celtics have no plans of making use of the TPE, likely given that the team would not want to pay one of the largest tax bills in the league in the very first season that the club expects to contend in recent history. That doesn’t mean Boston is done making moves around the margins with five roster slots currently unoccupied.

Murphy relates that the team is still looking to add a backup big man, which might be tied to the news from earlier in the day that center Thomas Bryant might be choosing between Boston and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Woj: Boston Celtics Danilo Gallinari’s preferred destination after clearing waivers https://t.co/1EFfgwJ6vj

— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) July 1, 2022

It’s also still possible that the Celtics might bring in the right player shaking free from a trade if the situation arises, but with the cap space possessed by Boston coming at a premium with no serious need to make us of it, expect the Celtics to drive a hard bargain for any interested parties.

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