3 Boston Celtics players that could be moved after wild start to free agency

It didn’t take long for the Boston Celtics to make their mark on the official start to the new league year, for, within the first 24 hours of NBA Free Agency, Brad Stevens and co. went to work and figured out ways to better bolster this championship-aspiring club’s rotation by addressing some of their most glaring issues.

Starting off the first full day of this illustrious time period, reports surfaced that the C’s are expected to sign veteran forward, Danilo Gallinari, to the taxpayer’s MLE once he clears waivers, thus shoring up the weakened wing depth that has plagued them for the better part of the last four seasons.

Now, while this move alone would have made for a tremendous kick-off to 4th of July weekend, later on, more fireworks were set off as Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Boston made a deal with the Indiana Pacers that sent long-time favorite target, Malcolm Brogdon to eastern Massachusetts, thus giving the rotation that playmaking point guard they’ve been rumored to be coveting.

Now, with plenty of more time remaining between now and opening day, one can only assume that, while these were major transactions made, they will not be the only ones the Celtics will be taking part in this offseason, as they still have plenty of more assets that could be utilized to better fill out this title-contending roster.

Though undoubtedly a menacing unit as currently stands, there are still ways in which this front office can make Boston even better and, to us at HH, we believe that this makes 3 specific players expendable moving forward:

Boston Celtics player No. 1) Grant Williams

Over these past two years, Grant Williams has managed to carve out a rather lucrative spot within the rotation for the Boston Celtics thanks to his trusty shooting stroke and his respective position of power forward (an area this team has been looking to bolster for some time now).

Even during their recent NBA Finals run, the quasi-big man saw significant action on the hardwood, logging a whopping 27.2 minutes per night.

Unfortunately, his opportunities to shine didn’t wind up translating all that well on the hardwood, especially down the stretch as he was rather unreliable, scoring three or fewer points on four separate occasions during the championship round, and, during their final 10 games of the postseason, he converted on just 5-of-20 of his attempts from 3-point range.

With his shortcomings and inconsistent play on the biggest stage, earlier this week we labeled him as a player the Celtics could consider replacing within the lineup this offseason, and, lo and behold, it appears they may have just done that with the Danilo Gallinari signing.

With a long track record of serving as a highly efficient and reliable scoring commodity within an NBA lineup, the 33-year-old will warrant considerable playing time within the rotation which likely will wind up eating away at Williams’s minutes distribution, while his ability to serve as a legitimate four (6-10, 225-pounds in comparison to Grant’s 6-5, 236 frame) leaves the third-year baller’s spot within the rotation even more in question.

Already rumored to be someone Stevens could consider offloading before the acquisition of Gallinari, the first day of free agency just made Grant’s situation something worth monitoring.