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Boston Celtics rumors: Aaron Nesmith could be traded for draft pick

By Andrew Hughes

The Boston Celtics could trade Aaron Nesmith for a 2022 NBA Draft pick Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
The Boston Celtics could trade Aaron Nesmith for a 2022 NBA Draft pick Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Boston Celtics have done everything they needed to in order to put together a core capable of contending for the NBA Championship. On Thursday, they’ll be playing in their first NBA Finals series since 2010.

The Cs didn’t get here from the newly-implemented President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens sitting on his hands. Boston’s PBO got to work the moment he got the job, trading Kemba Walker for key veteran leader Al Horford and later acquiring Derrick White and Daniel Theis at the trade deadline.

Should Boston prove incapable of getting past the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, it’s very likely Stevens will be aggressively back at it on the trade trail and free-agent market to tweak the roster moving forward.

According to Sean Deveney of Heavy.com, the Boston Celtics could use the 2020 NBA Draft’s No. 14 pick, Aaron Nesmith as a trade chip to buy their way into the 2022 edition on draft night:

"“They gave away their pick last year, they don’t have a pick this year and they’re looking at the luxury tax, so, yeah, they’d like to have a chance to get back into the draft if they can, get guys contributing on rookie contracts. But the only chip they have for that is (Aaron) Nesmith and he is not going to get you a first-rounder at this point. So, they’ll look at prospects but realistically they’re going to look at second-rounders. They could try to buy a pick there but there’s no real path into the first round for them.”"

Aaron Nesmith has not cracked the Boston Celtics rotation during the 2022 postseason

Moving forward, with what the Cs have accomplished this offseason, Brad Stevens’ job is to find complementary players to his core. Aaron Nesmith may never prove to be that, and it could mean an offseason trade is coming.

If Boston could find a second-round pick worth adding to the ‘Jays’, Marcus Smart, Al Horford, Robert Williams, Grant Williams, and Derrick White, it could be the end of Nesmith’s time in the T.D. Garden home locker-room.

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