Steve Bulpett, the veteran Boston basketball writer, says the Nets are aggressively looking to make deals in hopes of making themselves more attractive in next summer's free agency ... and making their traded pick less attractive.
Bulpett, noting that the Nets will be giving up a first-rounder to the Celtics, writes the Nets "won't just roll over and give Celtics a great pick."
Brooklyn is apparently very determined to make things less rewarding for the Celtics. According to league sources, the Nets have been walking up and down the aisles in the NBA marketplace, looking for deals that could make them better in the short term as well as in the distance.