Should the Boston Celtics get in on a Russell Westbrook blockbuster?

With less than 24 hours to go between now and the NBA’s trade deadline, “rumors” this and “reports” that are surfacing left and right, and while not many of them have found themselves pertaining to the likes of the Boston Celtics, Brad Stevens and co. could certainly get the franchise intertwined with some of these talks should they wish to.

From names like John Collins to Cam Reddish, Ben Simmons to James Harden, Wednesday night has been filled to the brim with rumblings of intriguing talents being shopped, and perhaps one of the most entertaining reports of the trade season came within the last few hours, as the folks at Bleacher Report claim to have gotten word from their sources saying that the Los Angeles Lakers could be willing to swap Russell Westbrook out for Houston Rockets guard, John Wall, should LeBron James approve.

Now, in all likelihood, such a move is not going to happen, and B/R’s writing staff made that abundantly clear right from the get-go.

That said, as they put it themselves, should James ultimately decide that the fit with Russ in La La Land is not working (it’s not but, again, we doubt he’ll outwardly come to this conclusion), and that replacing him with Wall would be the better move going forward, that’s likely all the push Rob Pelinka would need to shove the former MVP out the door.

However, should this wild fantasy wind up becoming a reality, one major complication could prove to be actually finding a taker for the point guard, for he’s already burned some bridges in Houston during his forced ouster two years ago and almost certainly would not find any playing time if re-acquired (similar to how they’ve been treating Wall during his second season with the ball-club).

Because of this, if the Lakers and Rockets were to somehow both agree to take part in this transaction, they’d absolutely be interested in finding a third party to take on the $44 million man.

Perhaps the Boston Celtics could prove to be a viable option?

Already this season, there have been a few people who have come out and suggested that a trade for Westbrook could wind up being somewhat of a beneficial transaction for the C’s to make, including HoopsHype’s analyst, Yossi Gozlan who went on to point out the team’s lacking depth and upside currently at the one, especially from a more ‘traditional’ standpoint:

"“(The) Boston Celtics are a team that could use a more traditional point guard, and Westbrook theoretically could be a decent fit there since their best lineup would have three good shooters surrounding him…”"

In theory, Russell Westbrook could be viewed as the firey floor general that this isolation-heavy Boston Celtics scheme could use.

His willingness to facilitate (averages 8.5 assists for his career and is currently dishing out 7.5 this season) could help kick-start the C’s offense and, in turn, help the likes of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown get led into clean looks at scoring opportunities rather than taking it upon themselves whilst with the ball in hand to get there.

On top of this, despite his ‘lowly’ season moniker, Westbrook would easily come in and serve as a much-needed third scoring threat, as he’s currently posting 18.3 points per game and, for his career, boasts an average of 22.9 points a night.

Easily at a career low-point, going about and acquiring the point guard almost certainly wouldn’t cost the C’s all that much — perhaps something along the lines of Al Horford, Dennis Schroder, and Aaron Nesmith could wind up doing the trick (likely all would go to Houston).

Now look, while we at HH would much much MUCH rather see Boston go about and pursue a myriad of other players at the deadline this year — specifically, either John Collins or Harrison Barnes –, should all it cost are these aforementioned players that we listed above, we believe that perhaps serving as a third-team in a potential Russell Westbrook trade should be considered.

What say you Celtics fans?!

Do you like the idea? Does it make you absolutely enraged?

We understand both emotions, so go ahead and leave them in the comments section below!