OK, here’s the situation: Brad Stevens went away on a week’s vacation and he left you the keys to the Celtics' brand-new roster. Would he mind a deal? Well, of course not.

Back in July, after an initial batch of roster tinkering saw the Celtics trade away Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday in a quest to dip below the second apron, Stevens suggested he’d be content if the roster in that moment was the roster that Boston carried into the offseason.

The Celtics have made six roster transactions since that declaration -- albeit mostly tinkering on the back end of the roster and finalizing their two-way deals -- but that maneuvering also included trading away the only player received in the Porzingis swap (Georges Niang).

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