At the time he made his first move as the President of Basketball Operations of the Boston Celtics, former head coach Brad Stevens was seen as having made a necessary — but perhaps too costly — move to get off veteran point guard Kemba Walker’s salary in exchange for old frontcourt friend Al Horford.
It was a similar assessment when he traded wing Josh Richardson, shooting guard Romeo Langford, a first-round pick, and a pick swap for guard Derrick White, and again with the move that brought back big man Daniel Theis given the cap hit of his contract as a third center.
Yet when the dist settled, we found the Celtics one of the best teams in the league with realistic designs on contending, and that with a roster put together on a relatively cheap overall cost to the team’s payroll and asset collection.
