Boston Celtics: 2 Bradley Beal blockbusters Cs should pursue

Boston Celtics take part in a 3-team deal that lands Bradley Beal in Dallas

As we said in the introduction slide, the idea of getting involved in Bradley Beal trade talks doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the Boston Celtics who have to end up with him at the end of the day.

Often in the NBA, when a blockbuster move takes place, it comes in the form of a multi-team exchange to help spread the financial burden across multiple organizations or, simply, to have teams bypass undesirable players.

Here, we see exactly this, as we propose the concept of shipping the star guard to Dallas to help Luka Doncic out a bit on the offensive side of the ball.

During this past postseason, it was evident that the Latvian-born superstar needs more help around him, especially in the scoring department where he averaged 35.7 points during Dallas’ 7-game first-round bout against the Los Angeles Clippers and was even responsible for 10.3 more a night in the form of assists.

Even with these stellar numbers, the Mavericks were unable to come out of the Quarterfinals with a victory and a major factor in this unfortunate turnout was thanks in large to their lack of bucket buyers on offense.

Beal, of course, would be a fantastic shot-creator to run alongside Luka, as he’s one of the most prolific isolation scorers in the game today as he’s converted on over 51 percent of his unassisted field goal attempts — in comparison, the Mavs’ current sidekick to Doncic, Kristaps Porzingis, converted on just 21.2 percent of such attempts.

As for Washington, they part ways with their franchise player but manage to bring back a talent who, though perhaps took a step back this past season, still managed to post per-game averages of 20.1 points, 8.9 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks per game on 48 percent shooting from the floor and 37.6 percent shooting from deep and is just 25-years-old.

He could serve as a tremendous floor-spacing frontcourt talent along with Davis Bertans to help clear the lane for the oft-driving Russell Westbrook (assuming they can’t find a taker for his contract) for him to either roam free in the paint or dish out drive-and-kicks.

Along with him, we see Jalen Brunson making his way to D.C to serve as a promising young understudy at the one (posted 12.6 points, 3.5 assists, and 3.4 rebounds on 52 percent shooting from the floor and 40.5 percent shooting from deep) as well as Dallas’ first-round pick from 2020 in Josh Green and the rights to five future first-round picks and two seconds courtesy of the Boston Celtics.

As seen in the graphic above, obviously these seconds are used to bring on the final year of veteran forward, Dorian Finney-Smith to help bolster the team’s bench as well as their forward rotation behind the likes of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.

At a price tag of just $4 million next season, the wing could be acquired by means of the Enes Kanter TPE, while his averages of 9.8 points and 5.4 rebounds on 47 percent shooting from the floor and 39 percent shooting from deep could prove to be rather valuable to the C’s 28th worst bench scoring unit and 23rd ranked offensive rating.