Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens says the three-team trade that brought in Kristaps Porzingis but saw Marcus Smart head to the Memphis Grizzlies was all about balancing the team's roster.
"I said this at the start of the summer: I thought that we needed to balance our roster and make sure that we looked at the best ways to do that," Stevens told reporters early Friday morning following the NBA draft. "And that meant that we were going to likely lose a really, really, really good player.