Boston Celtics: 3 trades that would make Cs instant title favorites
By Mark Nilon
Trade to make Cs title favorites No. 2) Rudy Gobert
The idea of the Boston Celtics pursuing center Rudy Gobert has become somewhat of a past time for us here at HH.
While in the past we have created scenarios in which Danny Ainge can finagle his way into also acquiring the likes of, say, Jordan Clarkson and, in some instances, Bojan Bogdanovic, today we’re meeting halfway between our wishes and the ideology in which B/R abided by in one of their latest publications involving a Gobert to Boston deal.
Like our last slide implied, the shamrocks really need to address their center position heading into next season, especially after the way the Heat took advantage of said weakness with Adebayo. Unlike our last slide, however, this trade sees the Celtics acquiring a legitimate star at the position in Gobert.
2019-20 saw the French-native post impressive per-game averages of 15.1 points, 13.5 rebounds, and two blocks a night on a career-high 69 percent shooting from the floor.
Voted onto his fourth straight NBA All-Defensive team while finishing third in the running for the league’s Defensive Player of the Year award, Gobert still managed to etch himself into the conversation of best defenders in the association — won the award twice before, most recently coming in 2019.
Boasting the fourth-best defense in the league without a true center, adding a talent like the Stifle Tower would make this already menacing unit that much more lethal to square off against for an opposing squad, while also having little to no impact on their fourth-ranked offense.
The additions of Tony Bradley and Georges Niang would essentially be just to match salaries, but would also add both depth at the center slot behind Gobert &, presumably, Robert Williams III and would potentially aid in the C’s quest to improve their second unit 3-point shooting prowess, as Niang is a career 38.7 percent shooter from deep.