Boston Celtics: 3-team mega-deal to land Ben Simmons and Myles Turner

Why the Boston Celtics do it

The reasoning behind why the Boston Celtics do this deal is quite simple, actually: they upgrade at point guard and upgrade significantly at center.

Don’t get me wrong, the impact that Kemba Walker has had on this shamrocks squad in just one year of donning the green and white is something that cannot be understated.

Replacing the likes of Kyrie Irving, Walker, despite having a very similar skillset, opted to go about being the leader of the Cs with a much different mindset by essentially taking somewhat of a backseat in an effort to help guys like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown progress.

Having said that, due to the uncertainty of his knee moving forward, and his inability to rise to the occasion on a consistent basis during this past playoff run, if they have the opportunity to swap him for the likes of Ben Simmons, Danny Ainge should certainly jump at the opportunity.

Simmons would add the distribution skills (averages eight assists per game for his career) that would be of great service to this core consisting of Tatum and Brown. Not only this but his rebounding skills (8.3 per game for his career), defensive prowess (2019-20 All-Defensive First-Team), and physical stature (6-10, 240-pounds) would all be of great value within this rotation.

Now, like we stated in one of the past slides, despite his averages of 16.4 points per game, his lack of floor spacing ability would be a minus in regard to replacing Walker (has made just two 3-pointers on 24 attempts throughout his career).

That said, we also see the likes of stretch-big Myles Turner coming to town from Indiana, allowing the C’s starting-5 to run more of a four in, one out scheme except, the benefit of this is that the one in would be Simmons who can either dominate at the rim against his smaller defender down low or drive and kick it out to any one of their number of floor spacers.

In a nutshell, one of the main reasons as to why the Boston Celtics should do a deal like this is because, at the end of the day, they’re upgrading at the most important position in basketball.

The second reason why they should do a deal like this is because they are also improving upon their weakest area within the rotation at center.

We have been huge advocates for bringing on Turner in the past, and our reasoning for why is still the same:

"Myles Turner may not be the biggest name at his position, but he certainly is one that fits Boston’s scheme quite nicely — perhaps even better than Theis. On the season, the 23-year-old big posted solid averages of 12.1 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and a whopping 2.1 blocks per game on 46 percent shooting from the floor and 34 percent shooting from deep."

Last, but certainly not least, the team also sees the additions of Doug McDermott and Jeremy Lamb, both of whom would be fantastic scoring punches off of Boston’s offensively-inept pine that ranked 29th in points per game (28.5), 28th in 3-point percentage (31.8), and 20th in offensive rating (53.6). With 2019-20 scoring averages of 10.3 points on 43 percent shooting from deep for McDermott and 12.5 points for Lamb, their contributions would be absolute blessings for Beantown in 2020-21.

This blockbuster deal is the one to accept if you’re the Boston Celtics.

Let’s make it happen, Danny!