BRIGHTON, MA — The Boston Celtics will enter next season with a very different roster than the one that fell in the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Brad Stevens has wholly flipped the roster in just two years as the Celtics’ President of Basketball Operations. Just three players remain from when he took over in his new role: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Payton Pritchard.
After adding Kristaps Porzingis early in the summer, at the expense of long-time Celtic Marcus Smart, Stevens took his retooling a step further, shipping out Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams, and two first-round picks for Jrue Holiday after the Portland Trail Blazers dealt Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks.