Regardless of what moves the Celtics make in the closing stages of the offseason, they are unlikely to make any moves bigger than what they started with. To begin the offseason, Boston dealt Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis to the Portland Trail Blazers and Atlanta Hawks, respectively, to help settle their financial situation.

New England native Georges Niang knows he has some work to do in order to win over Celtics fans following the Kristaps Porzingis trade.

Georges Niang already has a reputation among Celtics fans. And even though he’s a Massachusetts native, he doesn’t expect fans to take too kindly to him.