{"id":770628,"date":"2026-06-30T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770628\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:46:23","slug":"nba-free-agency-2026-live-updates-celtics-rumors-trades-and-latest-news-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/770628\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA free agency 2026 live updates: Celtics rumors, trades, and latest news \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowJoin Chris Forsberg, Tom Giles and others for a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/s-fxnP2w03o?feature=share\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/s-fxnP2w03o?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">special Celtics free agency show live on YouTube<\/a> at 7 p.m. ET.Teams can start agreeing to new contracts with players not on their roster beginning at 6 p.m. ET.Many stars have been traded over the last two weeks &#8212; could Jaylen Brown be next?The Celtics have the full non-taxpayer mid-level exception and a $27.7 million TPE to make moves.<\/p>\n<p>NBA free agency begins at 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 30, and it&#8217;ll be fascinating to see how the Boston Celtics decide to bolster their roster for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the focus on the Celtics involves the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/jaylen-brown-trade-rumor-tracker\/792976\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/jaylen-brown-trade-rumor-tracker\/792976\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">future of Jaylen Brown<\/a>. The superstar wing has been the subject of many trade rumors in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p>But the Brown situation isn&#8217;t the only Celtics storyline worth following. <\/p>\n<p>They have the full non-taxpayer mid-level exception (around $15 million) to use in free agency. They also have a very large $27.7 million traded player exception (TPE) from the Anfernee Simons trade in February to use.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics need to upgrade their frontcourt this offseason, and using the MLE and TPE are two effective avenues to accomplish that objective.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all of the latest Celtics rumors, trades and news with our Day 1 of NBA free agency live blog below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowJoin Chris Forsberg, Tom Giles and others for a special Celtics free agency show live on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,1664,6786,15610,12553,24994,85],"class_list":["post-770628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics","tag-celtics-offseason","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-trade-rumors","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770628","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=770628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}