Goodbye Holiday! Goodbye Simmons! Another big deal in the NBA has been reached, how can other teams play

On July 1, the NBA changed overnight, and league teams started trading reinforcement work one after another. Among them, the Celtics and the Trail Blazers reached a 1-for-3 deal, Holiday and Simmons exchanged their bosses, and the Celtics Galaxy battleship announced the disintegration.

It is reported that earlier the Celtics sent Holiday to the Trail Blazers for Anthony Simmons and two second round picks. Once the transaction was reached, it caused heated discussions across the Internet. In 2023, the Trail Blazers had obtained Holiday in the hands of the Bucks, but they did not cherish it, but instead sold it to the Celtics. In the end, the former helped the team win the championship successfully.

On the contrary, the Trail Blazers only got two first-round picks, and these two first-round picks failed to help the team achieve substantial reinforcement. Now, the Trail Blazers choose to embrace Holiday again, and this time they decided to play the latter's role as a veteran to bring championship experience to the team. In terms of the Celtics, they gave Boston, Holiday, White and others a maximum salary contract in the offseason last year, hoping to defend their title this season, and for this reason they would pay huge luxury taxes. But I never expected that they were crushed by the Dark Horse Cavaliers in the regular season, and they were upset by the Knicks in the playoffs, and eventually fell to the Eastern Conference semi-finals. The huge gap has made the management learn from it. Just as White said after the season was eliminated, we can no longer play with our existing lineup. This sentence also indicates that the management will inevitably break up the team in the offseason, and the first ones they took action were Boss and Holiday who got on the car later. After the team sent them away, they exchanged for the young Simmons and others, which further reduced the team's salary pressure and made the lineup younger and more impactful. Such reinforcement is definitely the situation that the Celtics are most happy to see. In terms of data, Holiday last season played 62 regular season games for the Celtics, and averaged 11 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal per game. Simmons played 70 games for the Trail Blazers, and averaged 19 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists per game. In terms of data, the Celtics are definitely making a lot of money, and they even got two extra second round picks. The most important thing is that Simmons' annual salary will only be 25.9 million and 27.7 million US dollars in the next two seasons, which is very friendly to the Celtics' salary space. At the same time, after breaking up the Big Five, the Celtics formed the younger four-big four, Tatum + Brown + Simmons + White, and the lineup is younger and more impactful. How can other teams in the league play?