With Jayson Tatum’s injury making a championship run for the Boston Celtics unlikely this season, Boston’s goal this summer has been clear: get under the salary cap’s second apron. A team over the second apron is subject to severe restrictions, including a ban on trading first round picks, loss of the ability to use salary exceptions, and significant limitations on how trades can be constructed. Every roster decision this off-season made by Boston should be viewed through the lens of avoiding the second apron, and this includes the trade they made sending Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers for guard Anfernee Simons.

Steve Bulpett of Heavy.com dives into the Simons situation from the Boston perspective. Heavy.com quotes an anonymous NBA GM as saying, “They’re still very much willin

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