It Celts They will make notable changes to their list this season and an option that they will certainly consider to be a JRUE holiday trade. The 34 -year -old veteran was a member of the Celtics 2024 Championship team and is still a valuable part of the list. However, his play was up and down this post -empowerment in the middle Boston’s Disappointing departure from the second round to the Knicks.
Holiday has many fans within the organization and around the league, but its age and contract situation make it a potential candidate for moving while Boston tries to return. Jayson Tatum’s injury and a payroll projected by record for next year. Boston agreed with an extension of four years with Holiday last March that began earlier this season. Here is the complete breakdown of the contract:
JRUE Holiday Extension
2024-25: $ 30 million
2025-26: $ 32.4 million
2026-27: $ 34.8 million
2027-28: $ 37.2 million
The challenge that is now the brass of the Celtics at the CBA today is to find a person who is on vacation in these salaries, while allowing Boston to begin his own reduction in costs as part of an agreement. If the holidays are not treated in an open space (Brooklyn is only a team with enough space to absorb their agreement), Celtics should recover at least 22.5 million dollars so that any trade works under the CBA rules for salary matching.
What teams could be in the guard market despite their high salary? We examine some hypothetical commercial partners and possible proposals.
Winning teams now
This would be the favorite way for the Celtics if they choose to trade a vacation, as the team should not sweeten the pot for an offer. A team would like to vacation the player instead of serving as a landing site for a great salary.
That said, the trade of high salaried players is a hard play in the current CBA environment and finding a house for a 35 -year -old guard withdrawn from its principle will not necessarily be easy. Holidays could still help teams on the background track, and with scarce options of free agents available, get a reasonable price (from an asset perspective) can be attractive. A few teams to control on this front.
Dallas Mavericks
Proposal: Jrue Holiday and Draft Compensation by Daniel Gafford, Caleb Martin, Jaden Hardy and Olivier-Maxence Prosper
The maximum team that won now after its disastrous trade by Luka Doncic. With Kyrie Irving lost a big piece of next season after removing his Achilles, Backcourt’s help is needed. The defense also wins the championship according to Nico Harrison, so the holidays should also be able to help this team on this front.
With Cooper Flagg, which is expected to enter the equation as a general selection number 1, Dallas also has some wings required on the list to help the coincidence of salary for the holidays.
The open question is the open question. There is no doubt, however, that the holidays help the track of this team immediately, but they can also pursue less expensive salary options through trade. Due to this, Boston may need to sweeten the pot with an asset/selection.
Probability? Considerable if the luggage likes the holidays.
Los Angeles Clippers
Proposal: Jrue Holiday and Bogdan Bogdanovic, Drew Eubbanks and Jordan Miller Bogdan Bogdan Bogdan
The clippers were one of the finalists in the holiday trade two years ago, they said several sources in Masslive. Boston surpassed the Clippers for the Guard and could now make the holidays as a potential incorporation into the nucleus of the aging of the Kawhi Leonard and James Harden team.
The sale here is easy in theory Forr Stevens. The clippers update Bogdanovic with vacation and have a better look to maximize what Leonard and Harden have in the deposit. The long -term holiday contract could pause the clippers, although it extends very much by the first place of Leonard and Harden. Can Celtics do enough to sweeten the pot because the cutters absorb it? Or do clippers have more attractive options for more money in a bogdanovic agreement?
Probability: Possible, but Ballmer must be fine to return to the tax.
Detroit pistons
Proposal: Jrue Holiday and the first round for Tobias Harris
Although it is attractive to think of Detroit as a good place of landing for the holidays as a potential mentor for Cade Cunningham, it is a more difficult sale from the perspective of Detroit. Holiday is not on the right line of time with this nucleus, and its great contract will limit the future caps room for younger and better options.
There is also a cheapest -free -free free agent option available to Dennis Schroder. It is difficult to imagine the pistons jumping on this one, unless Boston adds serious sweeteners. This is something that Celtics would worry about doing, given their limited capital project. These pistons have been adding veterans lately, though successfully (see: last season), so it’s worth calling it.
Probability: I don’t see it.
Rockets of Houston
Proposal: Jrue Holiday and Draft Compensation for Dillon Brooks and Jocck Landale
IME Udoka would surely love to put his holiday hands to improve a robust Houston defense. However, the Holiday career line of career here does not make much sense here in Houston. He is a better player than Brooks ($ 21 million) but worth paying $ 11 million more than him in the coming years? Houston’s offense also needs more help than his defense and the holidays do not provide a lot of help at this stage of his career.
Probability: Not without sweeteners of the Celtics.
Orlando Magic
Proposal: Kentavius Caldwell-Pope and Filller for Jrue Holiday and Draft Compensation
It is not difficult to see the magic that seeks an update of Caldwell-Pope after firing 26.7 percent of the field in the first round of Boston. However, the very young nucleus of Orlando combined with the high salary and the age of Holiday is again a hard game. A similar situation here with the hypothetical of Dillon Brooks. Holidays are the best player Caldwell-Pope ($ 21 million) but is better $ 10 million a year? Probably not when there is already as much money as in other places on this place.
Probability: Not without more sweeteners of the Celtics. Orlando can also affect great money on the payroll as a third option.
CAP space rental equipment
There will be a lot of competition around the league to find landings for large contracts. The holidays could end a reconstruction team an asset on the line when their agreement is reduced. At the moment? The price of carrying it probably occurs in the form of Boston’s compensation. The Celtics should also recover a contract or two in a salary coincidence on the stage.
This would be a difficult place for Brad Stevens to put on vacation, only a year after signing it to a large extension. Sending it to a non-container for the next three years would be a hard business, but potentially the best way to emphasize the future.
Some potential landing sites to keep an eye on if the Celtics make this route.
Utah Jazz: They were in the holiday mix two years ago when the Blazers were hunting offers. They also have the flexibility of the lid to assume their agreement with a couple of contracts that expire possible to send them. But Boston should sweeten the pot.
Wizards Washington: How would Celtics fans react to commercial holidays with a future selection of the first round to return to Marcus Smart (and will probably try to market Smart later)?
Other teams that have flexibility to absorb large long -term offers for drafts compensation: Chicago Bulls, Brooklyn Nets
Final thoughts
There are a couple of feasible scenarios on this list (Dallas, the clippers) to go along with a few painful (see: salary trade). That is why, if Boston cannot find a good adjustment or the price is too high to move it, there is a possibility that Boston can keep in the guard. It would be awesome that the veteran guard ended this contract in Boston for the remaining three years, but the Celtics have alternative options to move money that could require less capital that need to be sent by the door or many more active (see: Jaylen Brown).
If Boston is committed to the youngest parts of its core next to Tatum (brown/white/pritchard), mobile holidays are probably the preferred game if the main cost cuts are priority this summer. Do not seek that commercial winds stop revolving around them at no time in the coming weeks.