Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[F Gump]

I don't include Gaff in the trade unless we're unloading dead roster spots for a $ equivalent.  I see Jrue as a $15m/year player at this point.  So of his $104.4m in the next 3 years is worth only ~$45m.  That's an over $60m overpay.  We don't have that much in dead contracts.

Klay - $34m/2ys
Martin - $28.8m/3rs
Hardy - $12m.2yrs
Total - $74.8/3yrs, +$29.6m

So you'd be spending approximately $10m/yr premium for Jrue.  The Celtics can't expect anything better than saving $10m/yr.  There's no reason to include valuable assets like Gaff.

Add something else, perhaps DP, and then add another team to absorb some of the salary from DAL, because that deal's not CBA legal.

Off-loading some DAL salary to team 3 is part of what BOS will want out of the deal (not just swapping equal salary for salary). DAL should get a pick or 2 too, sending talent to one team AND providing cap help to another, maybe 1 FRP from each team (and 2025 picks don't work because DAL will be really tight against A2 after a 4-for-1).