{"id":47670,"date":"2025-08-06T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:12:07","slug":"sources-celtics-shed-niangs-salary-in-trade-sign-boucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47670\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources – Celtics shed Niang’s salary in trade; sign Boucher"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Celtics<\/a> are trading Georges Niang<\/a> and two future second-round picks to the Utah Jazz<\/a> for rookie RJ Luis Jr<\/a>., sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Niang’s more than $8 million salary will go into Utah’s trade exception from the John Collins<\/a> deal.<\/p>\n

In a related move, the Celtics have agreed to a one-year, $3.3 million deal with free agent forward Chris Boucher, agent Sam Permut of Roc Nation told Charania.<\/p>\n

The Niang trade allowed Boston the flexibility to remain below the second apron after adding Boucher. They are now $7.8 million below the second apron after both moves and saved $34 million in luxury tax penalties.<\/p>\n

Since the NBA draft, the Celtics have reduced their payroll from $540 million to $239 million.<\/p>\n

Boucher, whose deal with Boston is guaranteed, will have a significant role in the Celtics’ frontcourt. He departs Toronto where he has the all-time franchise record in points, rebounds, blocks, minutes and games played off the bench. He also was the Raptors’ last remaining member of their 2019 NBA championship team.<\/p>\n

Niang, 32, was acquired by the Celtics in the Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> trade with the Atlanta Hawks<\/a>. He returns now to Utah, where he spent four seasons from 2017-2021.<\/p>\n

Niang is a career 39.9% 3-point shooter on more than four attempts per game and is entering his 10th season in the league.<\/p>\n

Luis, 22, went undrafted out of St. John’s before signing a two-way deal with the Jazz.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Bobby Marks contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics are trading Georges Niang and two future second-round picks to the Utah Jazz for rookie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-47670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}