After the Celtics sent off Ju Holiday, the three teams traded to send off Boss, saving directly $238 million

After experiencing a playoff defeat in the 2024-25 season, the Boston Celtics are also preparing to rectify the team in the 2025 offseason. Because Jason Tatum was injured, the team management believes that continuing to pay a lot of luxury tax will not help the team. So, they began to clean up big contract stars.

Recently, they sent the Ju Holiday trade back to the Portland Trail Blazers, which also caused dissatisfaction among the other party. When the Milwaukee Bucks traded Zhu Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers, the Celtics and the Trail Blazers reached a mutually beneficial deal and won Zhu Holiday. As a result, Zhu Holiday helped the Celtics win the championship in his first season. In 2024, Ju Holiday renewed a four-year, $134 million contract with the Celtics. The 2024-25 season is the first season of the contract, with an annual salary of US$30 million and an increase of US$2.4 million per year. In the 2024-25 season, the regular season averaged 11 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, which did not meet the team's expectations.

What's worse is Ju Holiday's playoff performance, playing in 8 playoff games, averaging 9 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. This is a player with an annual salary of 30 million yuan, and his performance is not as good as Tangiero Russell. Tangiero Russell estimated that he would have to sign a salary cut, and he would be able to sign it for $45 million in three years.

The transaction sent Ju Holiday away for two days, and the Celtics traded again to send Porzingis away. The Celtics and the Hawks reached a three-team mutually beneficial deal, but in fact, it was not surprising that the deal with Porzingis was.

"Breaking News: League sources told Clutch Points that the Atlanta Hawks are in a tripartite trade with the Brooklyn Nets to get Kristaps Porzingis from the Boston Celtics."

Atlanta Hawks get: Kristaps Porzingis, and the second round pick

Brooklyn Nets get: Terenceman, the 22nd pick in the 2025 NBA Draft

Boston Celtics get: George Nian, the second round pick

Trade sends Ju Holiday away just one day, and they sends Porzingis away, very fast. In his two years with the Celtics, Porzingis played 99 games in the regular season, averaging 19.8 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.8 blocks, shooting 50.2% from the field and 39.2% from three-pointers.

29-year-old Porzingis, 2.21 meters tall, is one of the best tall players in the league and has excellent outside shooting ability. His biggest weakness is that his offense and defense are easily blown up in the inside line, because he is thin and his ability to fight is not very strong. When encountering a player with excellent body or strength, he can only float from the outside and shoot three-pointers. In 2024, the Celtics gave him a two-year, $60 million contract. The 2025-26 season is the contract year, with an annual salary of US$30.37 million. In the 2023-24 season, he played 7 games in the playoffs, averaging 12 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist. In the 2024-25 season, he played 11 games in the playoffs, averaging 7 points and 4 rebounds. He shot 31% from the field and 15% from three-point shooting.

With such performance, will the Celtics still have to pay an annual salary of $30 million? It must be a deal to send it away. The two seasons of regular season and playoffs combined have only played more than 50 games for the team on average, and the average game is worth more than 500,000 US dollars. Now that the transaction sends Porzingis away, and Ju Holiday, the Celtics avoid a lot of luxury taxes. After the two left, the Celtics directly saved $238 million in expenses.