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Boston Celtics: The Warriors target worth trading Payton Pritchard for

By Andrew Hughes

There is one gettable Golden State Warriors target worth dealing Payton Pritchard for and the Boston Celtics should land him to bring GSW down Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
There is one gettable Golden State Warriors target worth dealing Payton Pritchard for and the Boston Celtics should land him to bring GSW down Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports /
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According to MassLive’s Brian Robb, the Golden State Warriors are interested in trading for Boston Celtics combo guard Payton Pritchard — a cost-controlled young gun who has torched nets since the day he set foot into a COVID-19-stricken league back in 2020.

The Warriors have struggled to make waves in 2022-23 after winning its fourth championship in the Steph Curry-Klay Thompson-Draymond Green era back in 2022 in a six-game series against the Celtics. They’ve been winning of late, but the losses of Otto Porter and Gary Payton II have not been properly compensated for with Donte DiVincenzo and Anthony Lamb. Adding a knock-down long-range shooter like Pritchard would cure many ills for Golden State.

According to Robb, Pritchard has the eyes of the Warriors and several other postseason contenders:

"“Payton Pritchard’s lack of consistent playing time in the Celtics rotation has unsurprisingly led to a number of playoff teams inquiring about the availability of the reserve guard including the defending champion Golden State Warriors, league sources tell MassLive.”"

The one Warriors target worth trading Payton Pritchard for if you’re the Boston Celtics

With Draymond Green knowing that his time in the Bay Area may not last much longer, he could be motivated to have a ‘Last Dance’ type of showing before opting in and requesting a trade to the team of his choice — whether that be his home state’s Detroit Pistons or a big market team like the Los Angeles Lakers.

If the Warriors end up being the final boss for the Boston Celtics separating them from Banner 18 again, and Golden State is dead set on adding Payton Pritchard to their guard rotation, the Cs front office must target a core member of the Dubs: starting center Kevon Looney.

Looney would be the perfect third big man in the Celtics frontcourt, providing the playmaking of an Al Horford but the at-the-rim confrontational willingness on both ends of a Robert Williams III. He’s never been on a non-Warriors team and stuck with the team through the lean pandemic years to get back to the Golden State glory he was drafted into.

Boston’s front office should look to break him away from the only franchise he’s ever known, because it could further the divide between the championship era and what could be next for the Warriors.

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