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Justin Quinn

Danny Ainge wants ‘shooting with size’ for Celtics: 5 potential options

Boston Celtics team president Danny Ainge recently revealed that he thinks the team needs to go after ‘shooting with size’ on a recent episode of the popular New England sports radio show “Toucher and Rich”.

And with over seven weeks of the 2020-21 NBA season behind us, we are starting to get a clearer picture of which teams might be buyers and sellers at the Mar. 25 trade deadline, a few weeks perhaps before being where Ainge thinks the best time to strike may be. Armed withs a better picture of what teams may be more realistic targets for the Boston Celtics to work with in order to make use of their historically-large traded player exception (TPE), it sounds like the Celtic chief may have a player or two in mind.

To that end, we put together a list of four candidates who could fit that TPE, and one more that slides right into the one created by the Enes Kanter trade. Let’s take a look at the likely targets.

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