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I understand trading Marcus Smart and letting Grant Williams get his payday elsewhere. But I cannot bring myself to like it.

For the most part, I get Brad Stevens’s approach to the Celtics’ offseason. Respect it, too. He’s bolder than first expected in pursuing that elusive Banner 18.

Enjoying it is another matter, at least for now.

Stevens, in the midst of his third summer as president of basketball operations, is sacrificing quality depth and some toughness to add high-end talent, all the while wisely remaining below the punitive second tax “apron” (sheesh, what a tiresome word that already is) in the new collective bargaining agreement.

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