P.J. Tucker has become a buyout candidate for the Jazz. He had fallen out of the rotation with the Clippers and still wants to play for a contender. The Celtics could go after him in the buyout market if he is bought out. Tucker would be a veteran presence who can play some good defense.

When the Celtics were in the thick of their rebuild, with piles of assets and big dreams, they were connected to just about every big star who became available on the trade market.

Stevens discussed the "boring" week leading up to the deadline and why Jaden Springer was traded. The post 3 takeaways from Brad Stevens’s NBA trade deadline press conference appeared first on Boston.

After a fairly quiet NBA trade deadline by the Boston Celtics, the defending champs will now hit the buyout market to fill at least one open roster spot

The Celtics still have work to do with their roster after sitting out the trade deadline on Thursday in the wake of dealing Jaden Springer to the Houston Rockets. That trade provided some cost savings in the interim for Boston’s luxury tax bill but it also opened up a second roster spot on the team’s 15-man roster.