{"id":448383,"date":"2026-02-04T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:10:08","slug":"bulls-trade-nikola-vucevic-to-celtics-for-anfernee-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448383\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls trade Nikola Vucevic to Celtics for Anfernee Simons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics are acquiring center Nikola Vucevic from the Chicago Bulls in exchange for guard Anfernee Simons and a second-round draft pick, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic, 35, is expected to help Boston&#8217;s frontcourt. The former All-Star averaged nearly 17 points and nine rebounds per game during the 2025-26 regular season. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Boston, however, will lose a huge asset off the bench in Simons, 26. <\/p>\n<p>The guard averaged just over 14 points and two rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics completed the deal ahead of the NBA trade deadline, which is Thursday at 3 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 The Boston Celtics are acquiring center Nikola Vucevic from the Chicago Bulls in exchange for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[29174,11357,402,2242,42236,13034,7329,18276,352,28145,15697,5460,20257,355,34909,13544,17589,210496,99,447,7157],"class_list":["post-448383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anfernee-simons","tag-app","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bulls","tag-celtics","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-download","tag-espn","tag-exchange","tag-frontcourt","tag-game","tag-help","tag-nba","tag-nikola-vucevic","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-second-round-draft-pick","tag-sports","tag-trade","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448383","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=448383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}