{"id":755067,"date":"2026-06-23T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755067\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:02:13","slug":"coping-with-the-blockbuster-trade-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755067\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping with the blockbuster trade that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Well, that was interesting. Now what? Certainly the team is going to move forward with contingency plans, but before we move on, I thought I\u2019d look at some of the immediate aftermath of the trade that never was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I believe this is what the kids these days call \u201ccope.\u201d Basically it means rationalizing to make yourself feel better about something that didn\u2019t go your way. Some situations absolutely call for that approach, so let\u2019s get into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Call it cope if you want because that\u2019s exactly what the situation calls for. Unless you were one of the many that was dreading this deal from the start. In which case this is a huge sigh of relief and perhaps even validation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Regardless, the Celtics aren\u2019t going to be a rudderless franchise with no clear path forward (as the Miami Heat might have been if they missed out &#8211; which is probably why they were desperate enough to pay the price that they did). We still have a championship core and several different paths to add to the team going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We will, of course, be tracking the next logical question. What\u2019s next? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that was interesting. Now what? Certainly the team is going to move forward with contingency plans, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,361653,361654,85],"class_list":["post-755067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics-rumors","tag-celtics-analysis","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755067","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=755067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}