Boston Celtics: 2 ways the C’s could become a superteam by next season

Trade for a star wing and a risk/ reward big man signing via free agency

Potential 2020-21 Boston Celtics starting lineup:

• PG – Kemba Walker
• SG – Bradley Bead
• SF – Jaylen Brown
• PF – Jayson Tatum
• C – DeMarcus Cousins

This one is adhering to a few fans in our comments sections — love you guys — who have suggested the team could, and should, look into dealing for disgruntled Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal. Though it won’t be easy to do, we believe this is an intriguing enough package to have the front office down in D.C. pull the trigger on a deal should they feel Beal’s tenure has come to an end.

On the season, the 2x All-Star is lighting up the stat sheet, averaging a league leading 30.5 points, 6.1 assists and 4.2 boards per game on 45 percent shooting from the floor and 35 percent shooting from deep. Though he was robbed of an All-Star selection this past season, he could still find himself being named to an All-NBA team once the season comes to an end and, though they may not need him, could certainly help this Boston Celtics team moving forward.

Acquiring him would require the C’s to give up two specific factors: salary matching contracts and future assets. Luckily for them, Boston has both at their disposal.

In this exchange the C’s will be shooting over former All-Star Gordon Hayward. Truth be told, while we believe the departure of Hayward for the arrival of Beal does wonders for the C’s starting unit, it also makes a lot of sense for the Wizards.

Hayward is having his best season as a Celtic in 2019-20, averaging 17.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.1 assists on 50 percent shooting from the floor and 39 percent shooting from deep. Assuming that John Wall comes back healthy to start the 2020-21 season, Hayward’s play style would slide in quite nicely for this team as the number two option behind him.

The Wizards would also receive the young, raw but obviously talented 2019 lottery pick Romeo Langford to add to their collection of impressive youth including Rui Hachimura, Thomas Bryant and Moritz Wagner.

And, in this hypothetical superteam scenario, the C’s bring on Beal to add to their already impressive star power of Tatum, Walker and Jaylen Brown.

However, the moves don’t stop there. Still, like we mentioned in the previous slide, Boston could still stand to bolster their pivot rotation. We’ve mentioned it in the past, and we’ll say it again and again — the Celtics should look to sign DeMarcus Cousins to a mid-level exception.

First brought to light by Lake Show Life’s Jason Reed, the idea of Boogie in green and white should intrigue just about every fan of the organization.

"“With little cap space, the Celtics should be jumping all over signing Cousins to a mid-level exception contract for a season with the potential of him being a true difference-maker. Barring any setbacks, he should be fully healthy for the start of the 2020-2021 NBA season and the potential of him as the team’s stretch five is intriguing, to say the least. If Cousins returned to 80 percent of what he was during his All-NBA seasons then it would undoubtedly give the Celtics the deepest roster in the Eastern Conference and the most dynamic.”"

Though battling injuries these past two years, when healthy Cousins has proven to be one of, if not the best center in the NBA. When he last started off the season healthy (2017-18) the, then, 27 year old completely stuffed the stat sheet with 25.2 points, 12.9 points, 5.4 assists and 1.6 steals & blocks on 47 percent shooting from the field and 35 percent shooting from deep.

One could certainly say the 4x All-Star is a risk/ reward type of signing but, when considering what he can do when healthy, the potential rewards undoubtedly outweigh the risks.

Adding these two players to a roster that’s already the third seed in the east would, at least on paper, make a Finals run that much more realistic and make them the league’s newest superteam in 2020-21.