{"id":51512,"date":"2025-08-07T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51512\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:39:04","slug":"boston-celtics-trade-georges-niang-to-utah-jazz-for-2-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51512\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics trade Georges Niang to Utah Jazz for 2 draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Canadian Press<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tAug 6, 2025 | 6:03 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics traded recently acquired forward Georges Niang and two future second-round draft picks to the Utah Jazz in exchange for rookie RJ Luis Jr., both teams announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The deal is contingent on the players passing their physicals.<\/p>\n

Niang is headed to Utah just a month after being dealt to Boston as part of a three-team deal<\/a> that sent Kristaps Porzingis to Atlanta. Niang previously spent four seasons with Utah. He appeared in 79 games split between Atlanta and Cleveland last season when he averaged a career-high 9.9 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n

Shedding the final year of Niang\u2019s salary for next season will save Boston $8 million in luxury taxes, and allow it to stay under the second penalty apron following the addition of Chris Boucher, who agreed to a one-year, $3.3 million deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press Aug 6, 2025 | 6:03 PM BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics traded recently acquired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-51512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}