Trade season is upon us, the first under the suffocating new regime of the 2023 collective bargaining agreement. Despite the draconian anti-Celtics bias of the new CBA, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing the Celtics can do, but we’ve got some new restrictions to wrestle with as we enter the deadline.
First, we’ll start with a rundown of the trade rules generally (including the new rules), then a discussion of the Celtics’ tradeable assets, and finally a few types of players they could target.
The increasingly complex NBA trade rules
Like Shrek (or an onion), the NBA’s CBA and the rules around trading have layers; seemingly endless amounts of them, but let's start with the basics.