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.

One of the headline transactions came on July 7, when Boston shipped Kristaps Porzingis to the Atlanta Hawks in a three-team trade also involving the Brooklyn Nets. In that deal, the Hawks acquired Porzingis and a 2026 second-round pick,