The Celtics can replicate a strategy they executed earlier this summer if they trade the former Trail Blazers guard.
As training camp creeps closer, the odds of Anfernee Simons starting the season with the Boston Celtics increase. However, if that changes or he gets rerouted after the upcoming campaign gets underway, the franchise can look internally for the blueprint to follow.
Between trading Kristaps Porzingis to the Atlanta Hawks and later rerouting the return for him, Georges Niang, to the Utah Jazz, Boston effectively shed the former's $30.