The Celtics-Trail blazer are winners and losers: Boston sends Jrue Holiday to Portland for Anferee Simons and Picks
Can something awaited and shocking? In this case, the trade between Boston Celtics and Portland Trail Blazer could count as such.
After two seasons in Boston, Jrue Holiday was treated again at the blazer-the team that unrelated him for the first time to the Celtics in 2023 after the Damian Lillard-Per Anfernee Simons and two choices of the second round.
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We classify trade:
Celtics: a
A holiday trade is not unexpected due to the Celtics who lose Jayson Tatum presumably for the whole season with a torn Achille. The Celtics are expensive and are trying to lose wages both shortly and in the long term.
What is shocking is their commercial partner and the return itself.
The Celtics have somehow managed to extract the activities from the holiday contract, which was extended last season to a number of $ 135 million in four years, leaving three remaining years on the agreement.
This is surprising for some reasons, including the fact that everyone knew the situation in which Boston was found and the blazers do not use it to their advantage.
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Simons gives Boston a space-space that is in accordance for the team ($ 27.6 million, expiring) and which probably could sign a new agreement for a lower value to its current level of compensation.
It is not a two -way dynamo that will defend different positions, since the Celtics have had a tradition of acquisition, but it is a marker and a good.
Simons marked on average 19.9 points in the last four seasons and has emptied 3.2 3 episodes per night in the same time. That part of his game will adapt perfectly to the scheme of the coach head Joe Mazzulla, who saw the Celtics launch a 48.2 3 of the league in the championship this season.
In the end, Boston got what he wanted to lose the salary and even the extracted activities, which must be considered a victory.
Blazer: c
The holidays are 35 and the Celtics obviously needed to lose significant money. For the blazers not only to offer them an anchor of salvation in the form of Simons, which is an expiring contract, but also two attached choices, it seems unnecessarily aggressive.
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One of the reasons for Portland’s aggression could be that the holidays had a stronger commercial value in the whole League than it would be, but for a player who is entering their 17th season, it would be interesting to know what the blazers were actually negotiating.
By setting aside the commercial package, Portland must certainly feel as if the holidays level, collectively, up to a point where it is worth it.
His qualities of defense and leadership remain solid and will make a very intriguing teacher to Scoot Henderson.
In the totality, while you can see Portland’s vision if you win your eyes, it remains strange that the blazers went so hard after a 35 year old with over $ 104 million left on his agreement, knowing how much the Celtic needed to lose their salary.