NBA Insider Jake Fischer spoke on a stream on Tuesday and noted that the Boston Celtics "are definitely looking at big men" ahead of the Feb. 5 trade deadline. He said that he's spoken with rival teams, and they've confirmed it's something that's come up multiple times.
Fischer also says that the Celtics have one real outgoing salary trade chip that they can look at to make this potential deal, and that's Anfernee Simons. He says he believes it will be difficult for Boston to find a center that is a close salary match that also goes down in salary without them having to attach too much draft capital to Simons, since he is not really considered a positive contract right now.