What do we need to know about the Boston Celtics cap concerns heading into the 2025 NBA offseason? The Celtics are going to be without their best player in Jayson Tatum as the St. Louis native recovers from a torn Achilles tendon, and star forward Jaylen Brown could miss significant time next season with a partially torn meniscus as well.
Before any of that came to light, it was the NBA's biggest open secret that Boston was already planning to look to cut costs on a payroll and tax bill projected to hit a half billion dollars, historic in all the wrong ways for a team looking to contend with titles.