{"id":61264,"date":"2025-08-05T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61264\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:07:08","slug":"celtics-trade-georges-niang-to-jazz-for-draft-picks-rj-luis-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61264\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics trade Georges Niang to Jazz for draft picks, RJ Luis Jr.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Celtics traded Georges Niang to the Utah Jazz for two second-round picks and rookie RJ Luis Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45909459\/sources-celtics-shed-niang-salary-trade-sign-boucher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This trade appears to be a win-win for both sides, with the teams heading in different directions for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics needed to lose salary in an effort to get below the second apron, and this move achieved that, as it is another veteran player \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/20256\/georges-niang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">and $8.2 million<\/a> \u2014 off the books. The team also signed forward Chris Boucher on Tuesday, Charania reported.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51032448;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36748619\" width=\"891\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2210945585.jpg\" alt=\" Georges Niang #20 of the Atlanta Hawks reacts after a three-point basket against the Miami Heat during the third quarter of an NBA play-in tournament game on April 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. \" class=\"wp-image-36748619\"  \/> Georges Niang of the Atlanta Hawks reacts after a three-point basket against the Miami Heat during the third quarter of an NBA play-in tournament game on April 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Per Charania, even with the Boucher signing, the Celtics are now nearly $8 million below the second apron. In Luis, they will get the 2024-25 Big East Player of the Year, who starred at St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Celtics are under the second apron, their tax bill has dropped significantly, which was their goal this offseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics have been on a fire sale of players the entire offseason as they tried to get under the second apron.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41632089;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36748616\" width=\"836\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Default_100830131-1.jpg\" alt=\"RJ Luis Jr\" class=\"wp-image-36748616\"  \/>RJ Luis Jr. is headed to the Celtics in the trade. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>They have already seen the departures of Kristaps Porzingis, Luke Kornet, JD Davison, Jrue Holiday and Al Horford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All points lead to it being a rebuilding year for the Celtics <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/sports\/celtics-jayson-tatum-sheds-boot-as-he-rehabs-from-achilles-tear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as Jayson Tatum recovers from an Achilles tear<\/a> he suffered in a second-round playoff series against the Knicks last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Utah\u2019s addition of Niang \u2014 who was originally acquired by Boston in the trade that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/24\/sports\/hawks-finalizing-three-team-trade-to-acquire-kristaps-porzingis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent Porzingis to the Hawks<\/a> earlier in the offseason \u2014 gives the Jazz a veteran presence for a young team that includes No. 5 overall pick Ace Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a bit of a homecoming for Niang, who was on the Jazz from 2017-21. Niang, 32, averaged 9.9 points while shooting 40 percent from three for the Cavaliers and Hawks last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics traded Georges Niang to the Utah Jazz for two second-round picks and rookie RJ Luis Jr.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2242,13013,355,99,4219],"class_list":["post-61264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-georges-niang","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61264","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=61264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}