Celtics Trade Ideas

The Celtics are not looking to win this season, not with a draft that looks to be loaded with potential impact players.  General manager Danny Ainge is going to spend the next few weeks leading up to the trade deadline looking to unload salary, gain draft picks, and increase the team's odds of landing a player such as Jabari Parker or Andrew Wiggins in June's draft.

With that in mind, here are a few trade proposals with the benefits for both teams discussed.  I will not include potential draft picks in these trades.

Trade #1: Celtics trade Brandon Bass and Avery Bradley to the Thunder for Thabo Sefolosha, Steven Adams, and Hasheem Thabeet

The Thunder would gain two valuable bench pieces while not giving up anything they can not replace. Bradley would replace Sefolosha as a perimeter defender and is also a better offensive player and could serve as insurance against another injury to Russell Westbrook.  Bass would provide front court scoring off the bench.

The Celtics would be able to erase Sefolosha's contract off their books after this season and could also buy out Thabeet's contract.  Adams is a project for the future and adding a 20-year-old 7-footer with potential is the positive for Ainge in this deal.

Trade #2: Celtics trade Jeff Green to the Rockets for Omer Asik

The Celtics shed Green's contract that runs through 2016 while adding Asik, who has one less year on his contract and gives them an actual presence at center which would allow for Jared Sullinger and Kelly Olynk to spend more of their time as power forwards.

Trade #3: Celtics trade Rajon Rondo to the Pistons and Avery Bradley to the Thunder; Pistons trade Greg Monroe and Charlie Villanueva to the Celtics and Brandon Jennings to the Thunder; Thunder trade Thabo Sefolosha to the Celtics

The Celtics would be adding three expiring contracts but would hopefully use some of their cap space this summer to re-sign Monroe.

The Thunder would strengthen their back court scoring, which would protect them from another Westbrook injury or, thinking more positively, give them a dynamic scoring trio of Kevin Durant, Westbrook, and Jennings in the playoffs.  Bradley offers perimeter defense and bench scoring.

The Pistons can now build around Rondo while moving Josh Smith from small forward to power forward.  Perkins simply balances out the deal financially and gives Detroit a banger under the basket who can spell Andre Drummond for a few minutes each half.