Shams report: Boston Celtics expected to be active, looking for bench depth

The Celtics have what most think about to be the perfect “prime 6” within the league. Hauser and Pritchard have been stable rotation guys. Past that there’s a number of query marks on the Celtics bench.

So in accordance with Shams, you’ll be able to count on the Celtics to be able to make strikes to beef up the bench.

“The Celtics gave a few first spherical picks within the Jrue Vacation commerce however they nonetheless have a number of left over. I count on the Celtics to be lively within the commerce market as we get nearer to February, to attempt to see if they’ll beef up their bench rotation.”

As Keith Smith points out, the Celtics have a $6.2M TPE that they’ll use to take again wage with out sending anybody out. The trick is discovering somebody in that wage vary that will be a distinction maker. And including wage at this level would rely 3 to 4 instances the wage when calculating the tax invoice. If there’s a transparent improve to be discovered, there’s a world the place the house owners would log out on the added invoice. I don’t know which gamers match that description.

For those who aren’t utilizing the TPE, then you must think about which gamers you’d be keen to commerce away (and 3-for-1 offers are exhausting to finish in season whereas groups nonetheless have roster constraints).

If any entrance workplace could be inventive sufficient to get one thing executed it will be the Celtics. It’s in all probability too early to have any actual stable really feel for who Boston would goal. However it’s all the time enjoyable to invest.