The Boston Celtics — and most teams, if we are being honest — do not often make major moves at the annual NBA trade deadline, that annual moratorium on trading players in a given season that comes at roughly the two-thirds point of the games played in a given campaign.
But there have been a handful of notable deals at the deadline in pretty much every season, and the Celtics have had a handful themselves in recent years. Frank Urbina over at our sister site HoopsHype recently put together a list of the biggest trade deadline deals made in the history of the league and a certain trade made by Boston checks in at the sixth-best player ever traded at the deadline.
Looking back, it was a fleecing of epic proportions for then-team president Danny Ainge that catapulted his team out of a rebuild far sooner than expected. By now, you’ve likely guessed the primary focal point of the deal, Isaiah Thomas.
Optimistic? Perhaps. But Boston’s excellent recent play isn’t just getting noticed by our eyeballs. https://t.co/54YWRV3K3e
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) February 6, 2022
