The Boston Celtics have become among the NBA’s most expert users of the traded player exception (TPE), the cap management quirk that lets trades be completed asynchronously — not at the same time for both sides. After the team elected not to use its massive, $17.1 million TPE generated by the departure of shooting guard Evan Fournier to the New York Knicks, the team still has two more fairly substantial TPEs it could use.
Not everyone thinks the Celtics will since they added Malcolm Brogdon and Danilo Gallinari via trade and the mini-midlevel exception, respectively — even with the third center not yet decided.
One such person is Heavy’s Sean Deveney, who recently was the guest of the CLNS Media “Celtics Beat” podcast, during which he and hosts Evan Valenti and Adam Kaufman discussed the potential fate of those remaining TPEs.
Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what the trio had to say about the future use of TPEs by the Celtics.
Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi
