{"id":107191,"date":"2025-08-24T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107191\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:11:10","slug":"multiple-teams-interested-in-trade-for-celtics-guard-anfernee-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107191\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple teams interested in trade for Celtics guard Anfernee Simons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/boston-celtics\/news\/multiple-teams-interested-trade-celtics-anfernee-simons\/a9e8bdfb4426b2b3021d1fa9?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Multiple teams interested in trade for Celtics guard Anfernee Simons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Multiple teams interested in trade for Celtics guard Anfernee Simons<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After acquiring guard Anfernee Simons in a June trade with the Portland Trail Blazers, the Boston Celtics have stuck to their offseason plan of cutting salary to stay below the NBA&#8217;s second luxury tax apron.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Boston has continued to do so with multiple moves, and the Celtics&#8217; roster for the 2025-26 season will look a lot different compared to last season.<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum&#8217;s devastating injury derailed Boston&#8217;s chances of repeating as NBA champions, and possibly next season&#8217;s hopes too, while recovering from Achilles surgery. In response, general manager Brad Stevens moved to shed several high-priced players, including Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Nuggets and Philadelphia 76ers show interest in Anfernee Simons<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming season for the Celtics will look like it&#8217;ll be led by other players on the roster, including Jaylen Brown, Derrick White, and Payton Pritchard, with Anfernee Simons looking to be moved.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Boston has expressed that they want to move Anfernee Simons once again, and multiple teams have shown interest in the 26-year-old guard.<\/p>\n<p>Hoops Wire&#8217;s Sam Amico <a href=\"https:\/\/hoopswire.com\/sixers-76ers-nuggets-celtics-anfernee-simons-nba-trade-rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported on the situation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported on the situation<\/a>, and he mentioned that the Philadelphia 76ers and the Denver Nuggets have shown interest in a trade for Anfernee Simons.<\/p>\n<p>Simons has spent his first seven seasons in the NBA with the Portland Trail Blazers before getting traded this summer. He&#8217;s proven that he can be a top scorer for a team in his last four years in Portland. Most recently, Simons averaged 19.3 points and 4.8 assists while shooting 42.6% from the field and 36.3% from the three-point line.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics guard could still start the season in Boston, but expect Simons to be moved before the NBA trade deadline, which is on February 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple teams interested in trade for Celtics guard Anfernee Simons originally appeared on The Sporting News After acquiring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[29174,2242,39050,1753,39048,29175,5488,6410,6345,355,32317,8221,59097,2113,6406,99,7335],"class_list":["post-107191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anfernee-simons","tag-boston-celtics","tag-brad-stevens","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-derrick-white","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-kristaps-porzingis","tag-nba","tag-nba-entertainment","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-payton-pritchard","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sports","tag-the-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}