Per ESPN’s Shams Charania, the Celtics are trading Jaden Springer and their 2030 second round pick to the Houston Rockets in exchange for a heavily protected second round pick.
Springer is essentially traded to Houston as a salary dump to get his $4 million contract off of the books for Boston. Springer was looked at to be one of the only legitimate tradable contracts for the Celtics at this trade season and could have been used to get another piece in return. Sadly, this is not the reality of the situation, but this could mean Brad Stevens has more moves up his sleeve before the deadline tomorrow at 3 pm.