Lower than 24 hours after buying and selling Jrue Vacation, Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens is again at it.
Boston has reportedly traded Kristaps Porzingis and a second-round choose to the Atlanta Hawks in change for Georges Niang and the Cavs 2031 second-round choose. To facilitate the deal, the Brooklyn Nets have been introduced in as a 3rd staff and can obtain Terance Mann and Atlanta’s No. 22 choose, in keeping with ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Porzingis was broadly seen as a commerce candidate because the Celtics labored to shed wage and get underneath the second tax apron. The primary main transfer got here with Vacation being dealt to Portland.
In keeping with cap analyst Keith Smith, Boston is now $4.5 million underneath the second apron and $7.4 million over the primary apron.
WAY extra to come back, however the Boston Celtics are actually out of the second apron by $4.5M.
The Celtics are $7.4M over the primary apron and about $15.4M over the posh tax.
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) June 24, 2025
The Celtics acquired Porzingis simply over two years in the past in a three-team commerce that despatched Marcus Good to Memphis. Whereas Porzingis helped Boston win its 18th championship final season, his time in inexperienced was marred by accidents. The 7-foot-3 Latvian appeared in simply 42 video games final season and 57 the yr prior.
Niang, a Lawrence, Massachusetts, native, returns to his house state within the deal. He starred on the Tilton College in New Hampshire earlier than taking part in collegiately at Iowa State. The veteran ahead, who was traded earlier this yr from Cleveland to Atlanta, averaged 12.1 factors whereas taking pictures 44% from the sphere and 41.3% from three with the Hawks. He’s on an expiring contract and can earn $8.2 million this season, per Spotrac , earlier than turning into an unrestricted free agent subsequent summer time.
