With the Boston Celtics seeming to be poised to make big moves ahead of the 2022 NBA trade deadline by most accounts, there are few reporters out there with a better line on what the storied franchise might be up to than longtime beat writer and NBA insider Steve Bulpett.
Bulpett recently sat down to podcast with his fellow Heavy.com alumnus Sean Deveney on the subject of what the Celtics might be up to before 3 pm ET on Feb. 10, the last possible moment Boston and the league’s other 29 ball clubs can exchange players in the 2021-22 season.
In a wide-ranging conversation getting us up to speed on what Bulpett has been hearing, he and Deveney discussed the contours of what he himself suggested would be an “active” deadline.
“Active” in scare quotes because, as the duo make clear, one of the more obvious goals for the team is getting under the luxury tax threshold — not exactly the sort of activity most fans are hoping for ahead of the annual moratorium of exchanging…