Boston Celtics: 2 potential surprise Kemba Walker trade destinations

As this whirlwind of an offseason rages on for the Boston Celtics, the focus has honed in on Kemba Walker following a major front-office shakeup. Easily the most interesting development from Danny Ainge’s vacating the head honcho seat for former head coach-turned-President of Basketball of Operations Brad Stevens is the beginning of the end of Walker’s time in Boston.

Walker’s bloated contract and balky knees have worried the Houdini since the bubble postseason on Walt Disney World’s Wide World of Sports campus, and it has now become a problem too big to ignore for the head coach that had to constantly compensate for the lack of his $34 million star.

The next step is clearly a trade, and since the revelation that there’d be a split came about, the narrative has gone in many different directions. Could a Kristaps Porzingis trade for the former 2011 lottery pick be a possibility? What about a move back home to the New York Knicks for the Bronx-born baller?

There are a lot of plausible possibilities out there, but the NBA is always good for a curveball (or many) in any given offseason. Given the prevailing thought in many potential trade partner’s markets that a Walker deal must include picks being thrown in by the Boston Celtics to get done, perhaps the Cs should look at some lesser thought-of franchises to do business with.

Here are two surprise teams that could end up being a part of a Woj-bomb announcing the acquisition of Kemba Walker this offseason: