The Boston Celtics have been a hot topic during the offseason, particularly in the aftermath of the Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis departures. Recently, a trio of analysts pushed for the team to retain one of the pieces they acquired in the Holiday trade.
On last week’s episode of Celtics Beat, the group of Evan Valenti, Bobby Manning and Adam Kaufman discussed whether the team should keep Anfernee Simons, the former Portland Trail Blazers guard who is on an expiring contract. For Manning, letting Simons start the season with the Celtics and perhaps even stay longer is a move that makes sense.
“There is a benefit to just letting a [guy’s contract] expire,” Manning said on the podcast. “You don’t wanna bring back bad money from any deal that you’re making for Simons. The whole point of bringing him in for Holiday in the first place was, Holiday was on three years, $100 million. Simons is one year, $28 million.”
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