With the NBA thick in the midst of trade season, rumors abound on what the Boston Celtics and the rest of the league might have in mind in terms of exchanging players ahead of the Feb. 8 trade deadline. And to such an end, Yahoo Sports’ Jake Fischer recently related that the Celtics have been casting an envious eye northwards when it comes to a particular forward.
Per Fischer via Heavy’s Matt John, “Chris Boucher… is someone I know the Celtics have liked for a while. He’s at $11.7 million.” And while the Yahoo Sports analyst notes that you are “going to have to give up someone good to get someone good,” even he acknowledges such a move would be unlikely.
This is because the Celtics’ current cap sheet is filled with larger contracts attached to key players that would not be dealt in a trade for a player like Boucher alone.
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And with little reason to expand any of the Celtics’ top six players into a larger deal when the team is already on top of the league standings, a buyout seems a more likely route to any chance of Boucher in Boston this season, as John notes.
And given the Canadian big man is unlikely to be bought out as a positive trade asset, this is not a rumor to watch all that closely in our opinion.
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