Jay King playing GM for the Celtics this Summer.
the athletic is a very worthy sub, here are the highlights
https://theathletic.com/2732467/2021/07/27/trading-tristan-thompton-re-signing-marcus-smart-and-more-celtics-gm-king-for-a-day/?source=dailyemail
1. Draft RaiQuan Gray
2. Sign Evan Fournier to a three-year, $51-million contract
3. Sign Otto Porter to a two-year, $12.1 million contract
4. Sign Ish Smith to a one-year minimum contract
5. Offer Marcus Smart a three-year contract extension $56MM
6. Offer Robert Williams a four-year, $44-million extension
7. Trade Tristan Thompson, Romeo Langford and 2022 second-round pick for Kyle Anderson
8. Trade Grant Williams for Danuel House
The results
Point guards: Marcus Smart, Payton Pritchard, Ish Smith
Wings: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Evan Fournier,
Aaron Nesmith, Danuel House,
Carsen Edwards
Swings: Kyle Anderson, Otto Porter Jr., RaiQuan Gray
Centers: Robert Williams, Al Horford,
Moses Brown
With this roster, the Celtics would be bigger, deeper and more versatile than they were last season. They would still have some young prospects to develop as rotation pieces and/or trade chips, but would have plenty of veteran options around them. Stevens could also try to trade cash considerations to dump the final year of Carsen Edwards’s contract and open another roster spot, maybe for an accomplished third-string center (
Aron Baynes?). In this scenario, I had the Celtics hold onto Edwards and give Moses Brown a chance to back up Williams and Horford. Importantly, I kept all of Boston’s future first-round picks, which could be used one day to chase a big-time talent.
The Celtics would need to pay about $26 million in luxury tax next season. Just guessing, but that’s probably on the high end of what the ownership group would be willing to pay for a team that wouldn’t be considered a title favorite. It may even be beyond Stevens’ budget, but for the sake of this exercise, I gave myself some leeway to build a more experienced supporting cast. Stevens would have financial decisions to make in the future. But with better talent around Tatum and Brown next season, especially defensively, the Celtics would have a chance to stage a turnaround from a disappointing .500 season.