With the Boston Celtics trading for Indiana Pacers floor general Malcolm Brogdon and signing veteran Atlanta Hawks forward Danilo Gallinari, they have now filled their biggest offseason needs that held them back in the 2022 NBA Finals, namely the scoring and playmaking the team needed from the bench players who went out in the deal for Brogdon for the most part.
As a result, do the Celtics now have the best roster in the NBA from top to bottom? The Athletic NBA insider Jared Weiss joins host of the CLNS Media “Celtics Beat” podcast Adam Kaufman to get into Boston’s new additions, the roster crunch those moves have created, lingering Celtics trade rumors with traded player exception (TPE) set to expire on July 18, and why veteran guard Marcus Smart is the team’s starting point guard.