{"id":75269,"date":"2025-08-11T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:23:07","slug":"celtics-may-not-be-done-trading-roster-players-98-5-the-sports-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75269\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics may not be done trading roster players – 98.5 The Sports Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think Brad Stevens has settled on the Boston Celtics’ roster? Not so fast.<\/p>\n

According to Jake Fischer’s latest at the “Stein Line” Substack<\/a>, the Celtics are still open to trading guard Anfernee Simons. The 26-year-old Simons is on the books for just one season and about $27.7 million (via Spotrac<\/a>). So, he remains a strong candidate for the Celtics to spin off in another trade, likely for the purposes of getting as far as they can under the aprons and the luxury tax.<\/p>\n

Based on Spotrac data, the Celtics are already $10.1 million under the second apron<\/a>, but still over the first apron by $1.7M. Additionally, they are over the luxury tax by $9.7 million, giving them a tax bill<\/a> of more than $30M.<\/p>\n

Stevens could accomplish everything the Celtics want in terms of luxury tax savings if he can shed just $10 million more off the payroll. So, he could find a trade partner for Simons while bringing back about $17 million.<\/p>\n

The Celtics have already shed money for both the present and future by trading off the contracts of Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is. They later spun off Georges Niang<\/a>, whom they acquired in the Porzingis trade. The latest insider reporting suggests that Simons could still be next in line, despite the offseason getting into mid-August.<\/p>\n

\"AnferneeGregory Shamus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Anfernee Simons #1 of the Portland Trail Blazers plays against the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

If the C’s are stuck with Simons, and a relatively big tax bill compared to what they’d get out of him, they’d still have a piece who likely fits what they want to do as a 3-point specialist. The Celtics are going to have to get scoring somewhere with Jayson Tatum out and Holiday\/Porzingis both gone.<\/p>\n

But it sounds like they could ultimately get that from someone other than Simons himself.<\/p>\n

Matt, a North Andover, Massachusetts native, has been with The Sports Hub since 2010. Growing up the son of Boston University All-American and Melrose High School hall-of-fame hockey player Steve Dolloff, sports was always a part of his life. After attending Northeastern University, Matt focused his love of sports on writing, extensively writing about all four major Boston teams. He also is a co-host of the Sports Hub Underground podcast and is a regular on-air contributor on the Sports Hub. Matt writes about all New England sports from Patriots football to Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Think Brad Stevens has settled on the Boston Celtics’ roster? Not so fast. According to Jake Fischer’s latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-75269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269","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=75269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}