Boston Celtics: 3 moves that would ruin C’s offseason

Boston Celtics bad move No. 2) Not using any of their remaining TPEs

So this one isn’t really a “move”, per se, but, rather, a lack of one, but nevertheless, the Boston Celtics not using any of their remaining Traded Player Exceptions would be a foolish thing to do.

As you may remember, last offseason the C’s decision-makers managed to come into possession of three different TPEs — one worth $2.5 million which was received in the Vincent Poirier trade, one worth $4.7 million from the Enes Kanter trade, and, easily the most noteworthy, one worth $28.5 million from the Gordon Hayward sign-and-trade.

To this point, only $17 million of these luxuries have been utilized, as the Celtics went about and acquired Evan Fournier at this year’s trade deadline.

Now, what this means is, Stevens still has the entirety of both the Porier and Kanter exceptions as well as the $11.5 million leftover from Hayward’s and, should they not be used by the end of this offseason, this available salary will wind up expiring, which means all three of these players would have ultimately been lost for nothing.

Though it may be a tad bit challenging to find someone of note for the lesser-value TPEs, when it comes to Hayward’s, we at HH believe there to be several quality options that the team must consider pursuing.

Aside from the high-hope targets such as Collin Sexton and Marvin Bagley, there are other names such as Tomas Satoransky and, perhaps the most impactful target for the Cs, Larry Nance Jr. who all could come to Beantown and be of immediate assistance to the ball club right from day one.

It would be an absolute waste to see the Celtics not use any of their TPEs this offseason and, in turn, would likely turn out to be a bad move by the front office.