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If the Boston Celtics do end up involving themselves in the Ben Simmons sweepstakes, it could cost them at least one core member to get a deal done.
Marcus Smart, who was signed to a contract extension this past summer worth $77 million, was mentioned by our FS sister site, Chowder and Champions, as a potential trade piece in such a hypothetical blockbuster.
Initially, A. Sherrod Blakely mentioned a Simmons price drop being the path forward toward Simmons in green.
That led to Tarringo Basile-vaughan of C&C putting two and two together and realizing a price drop in this situation constitutes swapping out Jaylen Brown’s deal for Smart’s in a hypothetical deal:
That would pretty much leave Marcus Smart, most of the team’s younger players and a multitude of draft picks to get it done.