Boston Celtics: B/R sees 3-team trade with OKC, Phoenix as a “win”

Bleacher Report once again has concocted a trade involving the Boston Celtics, this time in a 3-team fashion with the Oklahoma City Thunder & Phoenix Suns.

Despite the craziness that this year has endured, you can tell that the offseason has been relatively normal judging off the fact that, if there’s a hypothetical trade package concocted, more often than not, you’ll be seeing the Boston Celtics attached to it.

Virtually since the dawn of time, if there’s a good player rumored to be on the trading block, somehow their name will be linked to the shamrocks in one way or another.

In Bleacher Report’s latest trade piece, we see this trend continue… well, sort of.

Writer Grant Hughes came up with a 3-team deal involving Boston, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Phoenix Suns where, in his own words, “everybody wins.”

The Trade:

While Hughes went into depths about why this deal works for all parties, being that we’re a Boston Celtics site, we’ll only be focusing on that aspect of the deal, where he writes:

"The Boston Celtics already have a nearly full roster and a frightening tax bill looming over the 2020-21 season, which means they can’t use all three of their first-round picks without incurring costly penalties. The same goes for paying Enes Kanter, who has a $5 million player option he’ll surely exercise, and fourth-string center Vincent Poirier, who’s on the books for $2.6 million next season. Few players are more likely to be traded this offseason than those two."

Truth be told, this is most certainly not a “bad” deal at all for the Celtics. In fact, one might certainly be inclined to deem this exchange as a win for the franchise.

That said, the Houdini is most certainly not satisfied with the idea.

Maybe we’re being too stern with our hopes for an offseason trade, one with a deal so explosive that it would make even a Michael Bay film resemble that of Downton Abbey. That said, one’s dreams are meant to be uncapped, and we at HH like to dream BIG.

In truth, we prefer our own idea of a 3-team deal between the likes of the Philadelphia 76ers and the Indiana Pacers but, hey, maybe that’s just us.

However, even if we don’t do such a grand ordeal such as the one linked to above, if we were to see the Cs partake in a trade that sends away some of this year’s draft capital, it’s not a ridiculous claim that we’d want a better return package than Hamidou Diallo and a 2023 future first where they hold the right to swap picks with one of the best teams in the NBA.

Though we hope Boston does some sort of move this offseason, we hope it won’t be this one.