Boston Celtics: Ranking the 3 routes of improvement this off-season

Every summer, teams have three different directions they can go in to improve their rosters for the following season. How can the Boston Celtics improve during the 2020 off-season?

This off-season will feel different than any other in the history of the league. No, it’s not because of what is at stake for the Boston Celtics. Instead, it will be because the draft and free agency will be happening when the leaves are changing color as opposed to when the summer is starting to heat up.

The schedule has been thrown on its head due to the NBA’s pandemic-induced season suspension…one that will result in four months being taken between the last regular season game and the next regular season game that happens (if there will be any regular season games played at all).

Despite the timeline being shifted, the process will remain the same though. Teams will still have three primary ways of adding players onto the roster this off-season: via the draft, free agency or the trade market.

It obviously goes without saying that the C’s have used all three routes in recent years to varying degrees of success. The current roster makeup is a combination of all three processes put to work, as any NBA roster is.

Luckily, the Celtics have been led by a worthy executive in Danny Ainge that has been able to maintain competitiveness and a winning culture through the years as his roster has undergone turnover.

Here are the three routes of improvement Ainge will use this off-season and where each ranks based on Boston’s cap situation: