While the NBA’s 2020 trade deadline wasn’t the busiest in recent memory, there were some moves that may affect the Boston Celtics playoff picture.
Boston, which stood pat at the deadline, saw several East teams make moves that could conceivably impact playoff seeding and team ceilings.
Several Western conference teams did as well, but we’ll restrict our analysis to the East, seeing as there will only be one team coming out of the West that could collide with the Celtics in the postseason, and if they get that far, midseason trades probably won’t be a major factor for the outcome.
We’ll keep it simple, with a basic framework of each trade East competitors made and whether their aggregate changes made the team better, worse, or to be determined.
That rubric in place, let’s take a look at what the Joneses of the Eastern Conference have been up to.