Why the Celtics should add another rotation player ahead of the 2024 NBA trade deadline

With an open roster spot and a handful of players rarely playing, a smaller trade might actually make sense for Boston.

The 2024 NBA trade deadline is a little more than a week away. With it, the Boston Celtics and the rest of the league are in the thick of whatever they have planned for business to get done ahead of the Feb. 8 deadline to exchange players and assets for the 2023-24 season.

For the Celtics, that could very well be a whole lot of nothing, given Boston currently sits atop not just the Eastern Conference standings but also owns the best record in the NBA at a bit past the midpoint of the season. If it ain’t broke, goes the old saying, why fix it?

The counterargument there is that a team with designs on hanging a banner needs every bit of luck they can make for themselves, and with an open roster spot and a handful of players rarely playing, a smaller trade might actually make sense for Boston.