Boston Celtics: 3 franchise-altering offseason moves Cs must consider

Franchise-altering move No. 3) Trade for Damian Lillard

Like we said in the beginning, an ideal scenario for the Boston Celtics this offseason would be to look into trading away the remaining two years of Kemba Walker’s $140 million contract along with a few picks in exchange for a star to better compliment this team.

To us, there’s no better option for the team to pursue with such a plan than Portland Trail Blazers perennial All-NBA point guard, Damian Lillard.

Frankly, we’ve been singing this song for quite some time now, with trade proposals dating back years, and recently brought it up once more within the past couple of months.

As we’ve seen over the past several years, superteams reign supreme in this league. Most recently, it’s the C’s own Eastern Conference rival, the Brooklyn Nets, that’s taken shape into such a form, as their core currently consists of James Harden, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin, and LaMarcus Aldridge.

Boston has tried to emulate such a mold over the years, with experiments consisting of Irving, Al Horford, Gordon Hayward, and, most recently, Walker joining the likes of their young stud wings in Tatum and Brown.

Unfortunately, however, their attempts have ultimately flopped to this point.

However, bringing a guy like Lillard into the mix could be the exact right move to finally get the team fans have seemingly been waiting for.

On the season, the 6x All-Star is finding himself posting 29.2 points, 7.7 assists, 4.3 rebounds, and just shy of a block per game on 44 percent shooting from the field and 38 percent shooting from deep.

For the Cs, an upgrade at the point guard spot is likely the best course of action for the franchise to take. Lillard is a superior distributor to Kemba and, really, everyone else on the entire team, which is an attribute this team desperately needs.

Lillard is also a superior 3-point shooter, averaging two percentage points better from downtown this season on over two more attempts and owns a higher career percentage overall.

Lillard raises Boston’s ceiling to a similar stratosphere to that of at least the Philadelphia 76ers and arguably pushes them into favorite territory when it comes to Eastern Conference contenders.

The acquisition of the 30-year-old stud would easily help improve Boston’s play on both sides of the ball and would give them perhaps the perfect star partner to pair with their dynamic wing duo.