OK, but now what?
Former Celtics coach Brad Stevens made his first trade as a front office member Friday, and it wasn’t entirely unexpected.
One can quibble about the details of the Kemba Walker-Al Horford swap at the margins, but not about its overarching logic. (For posterity: Boston traded Walker, the 16th pick in this year’s draft and the better of their own second-round pick or Memphis’ in 2025, to Oklahoma City. They got back Horford, center Moses Brown and the least favorable of Oklahoma City’s three second-round picks in 2023 [their own, Charlotte’s or Dallas’]. Boston also generated a $6,879,100 trade exception.)
However, the move immediately opens several other cans of worms about what the Celtics’ newly installed GM plans to do next.
