985 the sportsub.com. NBA trade deadline week should be a big week for the Celtics and of course the rest of the national basketball association. I'm Sean Silver and I'm joined by Brian Rob of Mass Live. Also a big part of the Sports Hub Celtics show on weekends here on 985 the sports sub.

Be Rob. Thanks for taking some time here at the,

uh,

one of the high holidays of the NBA season. It's a big week, Sean. It's a big week. And I actually think we will get to this later. I think it could be a busy week for the Celtics this year, um, unlike past trade endless. But it's, uh, it's great to, to take a preview and look with you at some some of the big picture possibilities here for this team.

Yeah. but it's great to take a preview and look with you at some some of the big picture possibilities

here for this team. Yeah. And I mean, for a team that hasn't made a deadline move since

2015, a year where there were a flurry of moves, you know, pre-deadline and, of course,

that week, Isaiah Thomas being the big one.

Seems like the Celtics are in the picture every single year.

And it's the other teams that do the moves.

This year, no different.

You get the big James Harden deal.

Celtics in the mix, rumored to be, to use that, Mark Bertrand, you hear it on a, on that spot we run all the time the celtics rumored to be a

potential suitor um but they did not get james hard and the brooklyn nets did kind of a seismic shift in

the eastern conference it seems like you got three teams locked in as favorites in the east you got

the bucks who've been there they did some work in the off season as well you've got the Sixers who've made a jump and you've got the Nets who are just completely revamped with Kyrie, KD, and Hardin. And those teams, I wonder, B. Rob, are they going to be looking for more at this trade deadline because it's kind of an arms race in the East? 50% they're already getting there. I mean, PJ Tucker was picked up by the bugs last week. Blake Griffin, who, you know, I don't think he has a ton left in the tank, but already joined the nets on the buyout market. And there's no question. I think that all three of those teams will be in the market for more upgrades to the bench the next week because they all they see the opportunity here,

especially now with LeBron and Anthony Davis hurt with the Lakers and who knows how

healthy they're going to be for the playoffs fully recovered from those.

So those from those injuries.

So the east is probably wide open all those teams eyes.

And now the question is when you look at the 500 Celtics, can they do anything to bring themselves, you know, a little bit back into that mix? Or are they going to take more of a big picture view of it and say, hey, like we might not have the horses yet to get into that mix this year. And we're thinking more about the long about the long-term at this trade deadline. And I think that's going to be a fascinating question for them

to answer the next few days, Sean. Yeah. And you would know better than I, as a guy who has to, you know,

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