Report: Boston Celtics not in on trading for sharpshooting wing

With the loss of Danillo Gallinari, the Boston Celtics have a bit of a hole in their rotation heading into the 2022-23 NBA season. Boston brought in Gallinari over the summer to add shooting to a bench that desperately needed it in the NBA Finals. The Italian forward has since gone done with a torn ACL, and the Celtics are once again in need of shooting off of the bench.

One solution that the C’s could entertain lies in Utah, where the Jazz are having a fire sale ahead of the upcoming season. Former Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge traded both Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell in the offseason. With those moves, it looks like Danny is headed for a complete rebuild. If he’s set on selling rotation pieces, Bojan Bogdanović could be someone Boston could benefit from bringing in.

The sharpshooting Croatian averaged 18 points per game for the Jazz last season. In the process he shot just under 39% from deep. If the Celtics were somehow able to land him, he would be a reliable scoring option off the bench, alongside Malcolm Brogdon.

Despite the fit, Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer reported that Boston is not one of the teams that is interested in Bogdanović. Fischer listed the Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Pelicans, Los Angeles Lakers, and Phoenix Suns as clubs interested in making move for the eight-year veteran on his “Please Don’t Aggregate This” podcast.

The Boston Celtics don’t have the pieces for a Bojan Bogdanović trade

It makes sense that the Celtics aren’t one of the teams making calls on Bogdanović. For them to make a trade they’d have to include a player of value to help match his $18,275,000 salary. That would likely mean including a piece like Derrick White or Marcus Smart, which doesn’t really make a lot of sense for the defense oriented C’s.

MassLive’s Brian Robb reported last week that the Boston Celtics would likely look internally to fill the void left by Gallinari. Fans should look for Sam Hauser to see more minutes in that role, at least early in the season. Hauser signed a three-year deal to stay in Boston over the summer and it would make sense for the team to see how much they can get from the sharpshooter that they already have on the books.