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Celtics Trade for Kyrie Irving

August 23, 2017 by Digital Sports Desk

BOSTON – The Boston Celtics have been making deals all summer long. Today, it was a blockbuster. Tomorrow? Who knows.

Sports Illustrated Fashionable 50 - Arrivals

Kyrie Irving attends the Sports Illustrated Fashionable 50 event in LA this summer (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic).

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“Let’s talk about it when the summer’s over,” said Ainge when asked on a conference call if he was done tinkering with the franchise and if he was satisfied with the summer-long series of wheeling and dealing that involved the top choice of the 2017 NBA Draft (moving down and allowing Philadelphia to draft consensus No. 1 Markelle Fultz), a free agent windfall in landing All-Star scorer Gordon Heyward and now the biggest and potentially riskiest deal of Danny Ainge’s ‘wheel ’em and deal ’em career.”

The Cleveland Cavaliers reportedly agreed to trade All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving to the Boston Celtics in exchange for a package led by fellow All-Star point guard Isaiah Thomas.

Irving, who made headlines earlier in the summer when it leaked that he had requested a trade, moves on from a Cavaliers squad that reached the NBA Finals in each of the last three seasons and won a championship in 2016. He joins a Celtics squad that finished first in the Eastern Conference during the regular season last season but was bounced by the Cavaliers in five games the Eastern Conference Finals. Thomas missed the last three games of the series with a hip injury, and might not be ready for regular season opener.

Boston will also send small forward Jae Crowder, center prospect Ante Zizic and the Brooklyn Nets 2018 first-round pick to Cleveland in the deal.

“Kyrie is one of the best scorers in the NBA. He has proven that on the biggest stage, the NBA Finals, the last three years,” said Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge. “He’s been an NBA Champion, an Olympic Gold Medalist, and a four-time All-Star. For all he’s accomplished, we think his best years are ahead of him.”

“Isaiah and Jae have been a huge part of our success,” said Celtics Co-Owner Wyc Grousbeck. “Isaiah’s playoff performance under very difficult circumstances will live on in history, and we wish them all the best.”

Irving, 25, averaged a career-high 25.2 points on 47.3 percent shooting and 5.8 assists last season. He has three years and $60 million remaining on his contract. Thomas, who finished third in the NBA with an average of 28.9 points in 2016-17, will be a free agent after the 2017-18 campaign.

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