The current Boston Celtics trade offer for Jakob Poeltl

While it remains a long shot, the Boston Celtics are interested in trading for San Antonio Spurs big man Jakob Poeltl — and the Cs front office has even offered a proposal to the team, per SpursTalk’s LJ Ellis.

According to Ellis, the Celtics have offered a completely unprotected 2028 first-round pick. As he explains, the Spurs already have the option of swapping that pick as per a provision from the Derrick White trade.

Poeltl’s asking price has been said to be two future first-round draft picks, which may be too high of a price to pay for the Cs to land someone who would more than likely play around 20-24 minutes in a reserve role.

What dealing for Jakob Poeltl would mean for the Boston Celtics

If, somehow, Jakob Poeltl ends up on the Boston Celtics, there are several decisions that the front office will have made about its roster makeup moving forward. The first, and most obviously pressing, issue that will have been settled is the fate of Grant Williams.

Williams is a restricted free agent this coming offseason, meaning his price is set to skyrocket by at least four times his current rate. With Poeltl also a free agent, the Cs will have had to decide Williams isn’t coming back to land the Austrian center. Unless they want to pay a historic tax bill.

Perhaps a championship with those two coming off the bench would justify those means. But with potentially give up two future first-round picks, anything short of that would deem a Poeltl pursuit a complete failure.

A lot is at stakes for the Celtics in Poeltl trade talks, complicating things more than perhaps is needed considering the success interim head coach Joe Mazzulla has had with the current group this season. The best step may be to allow other teams to get swindled by Spurs GM Brian Wright, who got the Atlanta Hawks front office to mortgage their future on Dejounte Murray — who hasn’t gelled perfectly with their incumbent max contract star Trae Young.