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Report: Celtics interested in being third team in Jimmy Butler sign-and-trade

With the reported interest in Kemba Walker to replace Kyrie Irving as the Boston Celtics next point guard, Boston has “significant interest” in being apart of a three-team trade with the Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers that would send Jimmy Butler to Houston, according to Matt George of KHTK.

George explained further in a series of tweets:

I've been told by a source in Houston that the Boston Celtics have significant interest in being the third team in a Rockets/76ers sign & trade.