With every NBA season come trades that change the structure of not only the teams that make them, but oftentimes the structure of the league itself when they are involving players of a certain star level.
And while such mega-deals are by nature not especially common, at least one or two happen every year that change our expectations — if not realities — of how that respective season will play out. The Boston Celtics have made several such deals in recent league history, but where have they stacked up against the other major moves in the Association over the last 20 years?
ESPN’s Tim Bontemps broke out his magnifying glass to try and rank the biggest deals of the last two decades, and the Celtics came up twice out of the top 15 such trades in Bontemps’ estimation.
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