Imagine, if you will, an NBA without a trade deadline. In other words, an alternate reality in which teams have no limit on when they can trade players in pursuit of improving their teams for a deep run at the NBA Finals.
In such a counterfactual existence that would permit trades this late in the season, the Boston Celtics could conceivably want to make some moves to bolster their postseason success odds. And to such an end, Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley assembled a trio of such trades for us to consider should we ever find ourselves governed by such a generous collective bargaining agreement at the NBA level.
