Boston Celtics: 2 multi-team Victor Oladipo blockbusters

Trade No. 2) Cs get a sniper, Miami gets a big-3, Houston gets players and picks

A Victor Oladipo blockbuster involving the Boston Celtics doesn’t necessarily mean the shooting guard will wind up in Massachusetts. Instead, we give him his reported wish of heading to South Beach and formulating a new age Miami Heat big-3 alongside All-Stars Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo.

Despite their underwhelming 7-14 start to the season, let’s not forget the facts that they are still the defending Eastern Conference champions and that Butler missed nearly a month of action thus far due to COVID-19 complications.

Because of their low placement at the 13th seed in the conference standings, they could certainly use for more firepower to help thrust them back up the ranks. Oladipo, along with spark-plug scorer Ben McLemore could be two assets that could help them in such an effort right away.

As for the Houston Rockets, like the previous trade, they land a couple of draft picks to aid in their rebuilding efforts. On top of this, they also bring on some veteran assets to help them stay competitive in the now — Andre Iguodala, Kelly Olynyk — for, remember, they don’t own the rights to any of their own picks for the foreseeable future and have John Wall and Christian Wood under contract, both of whom want to try to compete; with their current state, it’s wise of the franchise to collect picks while also still aiming to win.

However, one of the biggest pulls for the Rockets in this deal is the acquisition of second-year point guard Kendrick Nunn, who is coming off of an NBA All-Rookie First-Team campaign and is putting up 12.1 points, 3 boards, and 2.5 assists per game on 46 percent shooting from the field in his follow up season.

As for the Boston Celtics, they land the sharpshooter Duncan Robinson who, after a breakout 2019-20 season, is having yet another impressive campaign, averaging 13.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game on 44 percent shooting from the field and 41 percent shooting from downtown.

Adding him to Boston’s second unit would give them an offensive-minded asset to help them improve their 24th ranked points-per-game average (33), 28th ranked 3-pointers attempted average (10.2), and their middle of the pack 14th ranked offensive rating (56.6).