{"id":447744,"date":"2025-06-24T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447744"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:12:03","slug":"celtics-trade-jrue-holiday-to-blazers-for-simons-and-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/celtics-trade-jrue-holiday-to-blazers-for-simons-and-draft-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics trade Jrue Holiday to Blazers for Simons and draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1398\" data-end=\"1633\">The <strong data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1420\">Boston Celtics<\/strong> are sending <strong data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1449\">Jrue Holiday<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1483\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> in exchange for <strong data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1519\">Anfernee Simons<\/strong> and two second-round picks. Holiday goes to Portland after being part of the <strong data-start=\"1600\" data-end=\"1618\">Damian Lillard<\/strong> trade in 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1858\">Holiday, owed <strong data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1677\">$72 million through 2028<\/strong>, helped Boston win the title last year, shooting a career-high <strong data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"1760\">42.9% from deep<\/strong>. Simons, 26, is a high-volume 3-point shooter and fits coach <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1840\">Joe Mazzulla\u2019s<\/strong> offensive system.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"2092\">The deal cuts <strong data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1889\">$40 million<\/strong> in luxury tax for Boston and signals the start of a busy offseason following <strong data-start=\"1967\" data-end=\"2001\">Jayson Tatum\u2019s Achilles injury<\/strong>. Portland, meanwhile, adds veteran leadership to a young core trending upward defensively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The Boston Celtics have traded Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers for Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ycXQicGkT\">pic.twitter.com\/2ycXQicGkT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1937354016171917821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston saves $40M in tax, while Portland reunites with Holiday to bolster defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":447743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Celtics-Blazers.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447744"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=447744"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=447744"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=447744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}