The dust from a busy NBA trade deadline has finally settled. A multitude of players switched teams in more than 20 transactions, leaving the landscape of the league substantially altered. The Boston Celtics were hardly a participant, but the many moves executed, or in some notable instances not, in the past few weeks have wide-ranging implications for both the present and future of the team. We’ve laid out every single trade worth knowing about from a Celtics perspective, from most important to least.
Perhaps it’s a bit antithetical to begin this exercise with a non-deal, but the New Orleans Pelicans holding onto Anthony Davis is important enough to embrace the unconventional.