The Boston Celtics — and most teams, if we are being honest — do not often make major moves at the annual NBA trade deadline, that annual moratorium on trading players in a given season that comes at roughly the two-thirds point of the games played in a given campaign.
But there have been a handful of notable deals at the deadline in pretty much every season, and the Celtics have had a handful themselves in recent years. Frank Urbina over at our sister site HoopsHype recently put together a list of the biggest trade deadline deals made in the history of the league and a certain trade made by Boston checks in at the sixth-best player ever traded at the deadline.
Looking back, it was a fleecing of epic proportions for then-team president Danny Ainge that catapulted his team out of a rebuild far sooner than expected. By now, you’ve likely guessed the primary focal point of the deal, Isaiah Thomas.
