{"id":759241,"date":"2026-07-12T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:07:10","slug":"celtics-historic-kevin-garnett-paul-pierce-trade-on-this-date-led-to-nba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759241\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Historic Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce Trade on This Date Led to NBA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> had so many massive moments with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce on their roster.<\/p>\n<p>KG and &#8216;The Truth&#8217; were such special players for the Celtics that they even made a massively positive impact for the franchise when they were traded away.<\/p>\n<p>That happened 13 years ago Sunday, on July 12, 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics traded Pierce and Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets as part of a much larger package that aged very well for Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The full deal sent Pierce, Garnett, Jason Terry and D.J. White to the Nets.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Celtics got Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Keith Bogans, Kris Joseph and three unprotected first-round picks, plus a pick swap in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 first-rounder was used on Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 pick swap led to Jayson Tatum.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/chris-cenacs-celtics-debut-3-reasons-excitement\/4488225d8afb3092a3f93d2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Cenac&#8217;s NBA Summer League debut had so many reasons for excitement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the Celtics won an NBA championship with those two guys as their best players in 2024, with Brown winning Finals MVP.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Garnett and Pierce were shells of their former selves with Brooklyn. Boston got out at just the right time<\/p>\n<p>It was a classic example of the Nets trying to go after big names but not recognizing the value in over-the-hill players.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics took advantage and won because of it. The trade was an uncertainty at the time, but looking back more than a decade later, it&#8217;s clear Boston fleeced Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>More Celtics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics had so many massive moments with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce on their roster. KG&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-759241","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\/759241","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=759241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}