After a quiet draft night, Brad Stevens got to work on Friday. He shipped out Tristan Thompson for Kris Dunn, Bruno Fernando, and a 2nd round pick while creating a new TPE off of Tristan’s outgoing salary. Then he added Josh Richardson using the rest of the Gordon Hayward traded player exception. The final details on those deals are not yet clear and rumors indicated that Stevens might not be done. In particular, it sounds like Kris Dunn might be re-routed elsewhere before too long.
So what does all of this mean? It is impossible to tell without knowing the next dominos but that’s not going to stop me from speculating and reacting.