Ultimately the Celtics have too much redundancy with Tatum and Brown as their two superstars. Championship teams are able to offer multiple ways to defeat their opponent and this current Celtics team when healthy could be an early to mid-round playoff contender, but will likely be unable to take down some of the top teams in the East with more versatility.

Two trade targets that come into mind would be De'Aaron Fox and Karl Towns. Both players have not had much success in terms of winning in their careers and the former has underperformed this year. Though both players hold a lot of value, they should be able to be had for the right price.

The Celtics, Kings, and Timberwolves should all be willing to mix up their rosters at this point, with the Celtics being due to their redundancy and the latter two due to their lack of success.

With that, here are two possible trades:

Fox for Horford Rob Langford and 1st round pick

Towns for Brown Nesmith Pritchard and 1st round pick

New Starting 5:

Fox

Smart

Tatum

Grant

Towns

with Schroder Richardson and Freedom as the main reserves.

These trades would definitely make the Celtics a force in the East competing with the Nets, Bucks, Heat, and Bulls. The trades would leave the Celtics with a dynamic combination of players and the ability to win in different aspects of the game. The team would be set offensively with Fox, Smart and Shroder's playmaking, and serviceable range 1-5.

Defensively the team would still be a force, especially on the perimeter, and though they'd be losing most of their rim protection the cost would likely be worth it.

Why the Kings do it?

This trade would give Halliburton and Mitchell room to grow at the 1 while taking a shot at further developing Rob and Romeo. With the team again on the outside looking in, this gives them a chance to bottom out while developing some younger players. Throw in Horford to match salaries and any picks as sweeteners.

Why the Timberwolves do it?

Karl Towns is having a great year but the team is again sitting below .500 and could use a shake up. Towns' tenure with the team hasn't been a great one with the team missing the playoffs year after year and swapping him with Jaylen could help both sides. The roster would become more redundant but it would give Jaylen more of a chance to be the guy. A one-two punch of Jaylen and Edwards would give the team two lethal two-way wings. A few sweeteners would include Nesmith, Pritchard, and picks as necessary.

Thoughts?