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Mailbag: Trey Murphy Trade? Finding Tough Guys? Celtics Reunions?

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can Brad Stevens build a tougher Boston Celtics roster—or will the “nice guy” locker room hold the team back from another NBA Finals run? John Karalis of Celtics On SI answers mailbag questions about Trey Murphy trade rumors, the feasibility of a Bobby Portis or Coby White acquisition, and the latest buzz around Anfernee Simons returning to Boston. Get rapid-fire insight on how bringing back Al Horford, Marcus Smart, Robert Williams, or Kristaps Porziņģis could reshape the Celtics’ future, plus speculative trades for Jamal Murray and the risks of adding Jonathan Isaac. Karalis also debates which legendary centers—from Bill Russell to Shaq to Kevin Garnett—could compete with Victor Wembanyama in his prime, and whether Luke Kornet would have changed Boston’s postseason fate. Can the Celtics toughen up and outmaneuver rivals loaded with draft assets, or is a blockbuster move the only path forward?

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0:00.0

Opening up the mailbag, we got a lot of questions about specific players, including

0:04.4

Trey Murphy, and whether Brad Stevens has it in him to build a tough team.

0:21.0

Hey, welcome back of the winners.

0:22.5

Big.

0:24.5

Hey, welcome back to the show.

0:26.1

I am John Corralis.

0:33.2

Lots to get to in a mailbag episode, which mailbag questions come in at John Corallis.com slash mailbag.

0:34.6

John Corallis.com slash mailbag.

0:36.7

If you've got a question, I've got an answer,

0:39.3

and I'm trying to get to all of them. I will get to bonus podcast with questions. I'll bring

0:44.3

Tom Westerholm in. Sometimes that answer questions. So Johncarallis.com slash mailbag. Later in the

0:49.8

third segment, we'll get to one of the specific names, Jonathan Isaac. We'll get into a Victor Wimbunyama question. In the second segment, we'll get to one of the specific names, Jonathan Isaac, we'll get into a

0:54.4

Victor Wimbunyama question. In the second segment, we'll get into some other trades and

1:01.1

the question of whether Brad Stevens can build a locker room that isn't just full of

1:06.7

super nice guys. But let's start here in the first segment from Dave D who asked,

1:12.0

how real are the Trey Murphy rumors?

1:14.3

So it's been out there.

1:16.0

Bill Simmons has put it out that he expects Trey Murphy of the New Orleans

1:21.1

Pelicans to be traded at some point in the next three weeks.

1:26.5

So he mentioned that Boston is one of the teams that is possible,

1:32.6

maybe one of the teams that is that was losing in the conference final,

1:41.9

so Cleveland or OKC.

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