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Should the Boston Celtics target Atlanta Hawks wing Saddiq Bey?

The Boston Celtics have a solid starting lineup, but their bench lacks the sort of depth a true contender may want behind them.

The Boston Celtics have a solid starting lineup, but their bench lacks the sort of depth a true contender may want behind them, especially at the wing positions if recent rumbles emanating from Boston President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens are to be believed.

With the NBA trade deadline coming soon on February 8th, the Celtics should look to acquire a bigger backup wing player to strengthen their roster for a deep playoff run. But then the question pivots to which wings might be available — as well as within the salary range the Celtics can realistically get to in an offer given the team’s roster construction and the new restrictions on second apron teams the league’s new collective bargaining agreement impose on Boston. Would Atlanta Hawks wing Saddiq Bey make sense as a target?

The host of the Chat Sports “Celtics Today” podcast weighed in on potential wing additions for Boston in a recent episode.

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Five big wings the Boston Celtics can target for trades

Brad Stevens let it slip that the Celtics are keeping an eye out for a bigger wing to add to the ball club’s rotation; here’s 5 candidates.

Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens let it slip that the Celtics are keeping an eye out for a bigger wing to add to the ball club’s rotation ahead of the NBA’s 2024 trade deadline. And while he did make it clear that this addition could be an internal one — Lamar Stevens, Svi Mykhailiuk, Dalano Banton, and Oshae Brissett all fit the bill and are not really part of Boston’s rotation of late — fans of the team can’t be blamed if they immediately made a beeline over to their favorite trade checker site to see if they can’t find a reasonable trade target.

We say “reasonable” due to the financial and roster constraints the Celtics have to consider, with a limited range of salary likely not exceeding what Boston can do with the traded player exception (TPE) generated by the signing and trade of Grant Williams to the Dallas Mavericks.

With that, Boston could absorb a player into the TPE, worth $6.2 million, plus an additional $250,000 in salary — and we have done you the solid of finding five potential candidates the Celtics could consider.

Let’s take a look.

Celtics team president Brad Stevens hints Boston is potentially looking to add a big wing

The head of basketball ops noted that Boston’s situation will make such a search hard, however.

With the NBA in the thick of its annual trade season, fans of the Boston Celtics who have become accustomed to their favorite team making moves to fortify their roster in a quest for a ball club capable of winning it all may find themselves disappointed by what the Celtics do ahead of the 2024 trade deadline. But with the best record in the league and a boatload of constraints imposed by the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), there may be little in the way of trades to be made.

Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens alluded to this while speaking to the media at practice today, hinting that Boston’s best chance to get better could be an internal process. But he also tantalized with a hint that there is one area in particular that might be improved via trade.

“Every year around this time, how do we improve to give ourselves the best chance,” asked Stevens rhetorically via NBC Boston Sports.

Celtics Lab 234: Why Boston is probably not making big moves at the deadline with Yossi Gozlan

Boston probably won’t stand pat, but isn’t likely to make major moves – so what IS on the table?

With the Boston Celtics rolling and their path to hanging Banner 18 looking more possible than it has in many years, you can’t fault fans of the storied ball club for hoping for a reunion with former Boston big men Daniel Theis or Kelly Olynyk. Or failing that, team president Brad Stevens getting a deal done for rumored target Isaiah Stewart to fortify the team’s frontcourt.

Even fairly modest trades like these are probably not in the cards for the Celtics this season, who can’t follow through with an offer that makes sense given the exigencies of the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement or the team’s current structure.

But the team will almost certainly make at least a few lesser moves to get better ahead of the NBA’s 2024 trade deadline in Early February, so the hosts of CLNS Media’s “Celtics Lab” podcast linked up with Cap Sheets‘ Yossi Gozlan to try to project what it is Boston actually will end up doing.

We also get into why those fun but unrealistic deals bringing back Celtics alumni or Beef Stew are unlikely or impossible, and get caught up on the last Boston news of 2023.

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What moves could the Boston Celtics make to bolster their roster for a title run?

Is there a world where standing pat and hoping for good health is actually the wiser move?

What potential moves and additions could the Boston Celtics make around the NBA’s 2024 trade deadline to bolster their roster for a championship run? Would adding a big man like Isaiah Stewart or Andre Drummond make sense, or is the team’s roster set with the emergence of two way big man Neemias Queta?

What about moves to upgrade the Celtics’ guard depth? Would it make sense for Boston to pursue Chicago Bulls guard Alex Caruso, or are they set on that front with reserve Celtics guard Payton Pritchard shaking off early season rust? What about adding Austin Rivers or Kris Dunn? Is there a world where standing pat and hoping for good health is actually the wiser move?

The hosts of the “Green With Envy” podcast recently weighed in on Boston’s potential avenues to make the team better for a title run.

Check out the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say.

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Should the Boston Celtics ask after the trade availability of Houston Rockets forward Jae’Sean Tate?

Boston is one of several clubs that ought to consider it per The Athletic, along with the Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Miami Heat. 

Should the Boston Celtics ask after the trade availability of Houston Rockets forward Jae’Sean Tate? In the assessment of The Athletic’s Sam Vecenie, Boston is one of several clubs that ought to consider it, along with the Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Miami Heat.

“While Tate can be a good veteran on a Rockets team competing for a playoff spot this year, his value league-wide might exceed his likely role in Houston because of his relatively cheap contract,” writes Vecenie. “A number of teams possess trade exceptions big enough to absorb Tate’s 2023-24 salary in exchange for draft pick capital,” but this does not include the Celtics, who have a $6.2 million trade exception from Grant Williams’ exit to the Dallas Mavericks that Tate makes too much to fit into at $6.5 million in salary.

Could a trade outright make sense, then?  With reserve guard Payton Pritchard poison pilled on his new extension, his incoming salary is valued at $6.8 million, but his outgoing cap hit is just $4.0 million for Boston, making such a deal CBA-illegal.

Attaching one of the three $2 million salaries the Celtics have on their roster could get the job done, and with the sparse playing time of Dalano Banton, Svi Mykhailiuk, and Lamar Stevens, such a move is not out of the question.

Standing just 6-foot-4, Tate is not your usual frontcourt player, but his 35.9% rate from deep and 3.5 boards and 1.1 assists per game in what has increasingly become a declining role in Houston could make sense if Boston’s front office balks on Pritchard’s inconsistency this season.

But we think a player making less — and perhaps more able to help serve as more of a traditional big man — a more likely target for Boston, perhaps even as a buyout option instead of trade.

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Celtics trade rumors are starting to percolate; who might make sense for Boston?

Could larger forwards like Dean Wade, Chuma Okeke, Jarryd Vanderbilt, and Jaylen McDaniels make for realistic trade targets for the Celtics?

The Boston Celtics have raced out to an impressive 20-5 start to the 2022-23 NBA season. Even so, rumors are beginning to swirl about potential trades the team could make to bolster their roster. One name that has come up is Detroit Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart. Though the Celtics have reportedly shown interest, it’s unclear whether that interest is recent given the difficulties Boston would have trading for the center.

Could larger forwards like Dean Wade, Chuma Okeke, Jarryd Vanderbilt, and Jaylen McDaniels make for more realistic trade targets for the Celtics? What about centers with a more stout build like Nick Richards, or one in more of a small-ball mold like Precious Achiuwa?

The financial constraints on the team make any such moves especially tough for Boston, as was the intent in the league’s new CBA.

The hosts of the CLNS Media “How Bout Them Celtics!” podcast weighed in on the early rumbles of Boston’s trade plans; check it out above!

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On the Boston Celtics’ reported interest in Detroit big man Isaiah Stewart

How serious is such a trade rumor from the Celtics side of the equation given the financial complications baked into any such swap?

As it generally tends to go down at the start of every NBA trade season, trade rumors have emerged suggesting the Boston Celtics have trade interest in Detroit Pistons center Isaiah Stewart. Such a potential trade could add a new dimension to the team’s frontcourt with a considerable boost to the team’s big man depth, but the nature of Stewart being poison pill restricted makes any such deal a complicated one in terms of salary matching for the Celtics.

As rumors begin to percolate from reliable sources that Boston is going to be aggressive in their search to bolster the team’s bench, the sparks behind the smoke are starting to come into focus. But how serious is such a trade rumor from the Celtics side of the equation given the financial complications baked into any such swap?

The hosts of the CLNS Media “How Bout Them Celtics!” podcast recently weighed in on this latest Boston trade rumor.

Check it out above!

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Celtics Lab 232: Celebrating Boston’s sizzling start with Max Lederman – and a Festivus for the rest of us

We won’t be doing any feats of strength (not screaming at refs calling techs for hanging on the rim counts, right?) on the pod, but we do air a lot of grievances,

The holidays are here and the Boston Celtics are amazingly good, so in true New England fashion, over at the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast, we decided to do what any other New Englander (displaced or in-region) would otherwise be doing. Complaining about stuff!

Of course, we will be doing so in our third annual Festivus episode with guest Max Lederman of NBC Sports Boston, and we did not limit ourselves to the 20-5 Celtics (it’s harder than you think to criticize a team doing this well) or even the wider NBA (which, unfortunately, has been a little easier to criticize of late), branching out into the bigger problems of the world.

We kid, but also not — and we also spend some time on recent trade rumbles, how the team has been playing and what might be coming down the pike.

We won’t be doing any feats of strength (not screaming at refs calling techs for hanging on the rim counts, right?) on the pod, but we do air a lot of grievances, so join us in a Festivus for the rest of us. And bring an aluminum pole if you have one, those things aren’t easy to find.

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Shams: Celtics are ‘going to be aggressive’ in searching for bench upgrades

“They want to see what’s out there in the marketplace in terms of bench depth,” reports Charania.

By now, one of the worst kept secrets in the NBA is that the 20-5 Boston Celtics are looking to fortify their bench rotation despite looking like the best team in the league early in the 2023-24 season.

Adding more smoke to that potential metaphorical fire is The Athletic’s Shams Charania, who previously reported on Boston looking to make moves in a less specific report a few weeks ago. Now, in a recent appearance on the FanDuel “Run It Back” podcast, Charania shared that it is indeed the bench that the Celtics are looking for ways to improve on the trade market.

“They still have assets left over” after their blockbuster deals to bring in Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis, related the Athletic reporter.