Silly season has started early in Boston this year.<\/p>\n
The beginning of any NBA team’s offseason usually brings a flurry of rumors and fake trade proposals, and that’s especially true with the Celtics, who fell to the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs<\/a> and need to shed more than $20 million in salary<\/a> just to avoid severely restrictive penalties associated with being in the second apron of the luxury tax.<\/p>\n That financial situation means the Celtics may have to consider trading at least one core rotation player. And in recent days, Derrick White’s name has been thrown into the NBA rumor mill, with the Golden State Warriors floated as a potential suitor.<\/p>\n “Another guy for the Warriors to look at going forward is Derrick White,\u201d The Ringer’s Logan Murdoch told longtime NBA reporter Zach Lowe on The Zach Lowe Show<\/a>. \u201cI think that\u2019s something the Warriors are looking at right now.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s somebody who can play defense, can settle everyone down especially when you have a young group like that.”<\/p>\n White arguably is the Celtics’ third-most important player behind Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and projects as Boston’s No. 2 next season if Tatum’s Achilles injury<\/a> keeps him out most or all of the 2025-26 campaign. But Lowe admitted the Celtics may have to at least consider moving White and his $28.1 million salary for next season in order to shed salary.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve talked about how depressing trading Derrick White would be for Boston, and the sort of a dilemma they face in terms of, ‘How much of a reset do we really want to have and who we want to be back here when Tatum comes back?’\u201d Lowe said. \u201cWho has trade value in the interim and where (does) Derrick White fit in that conversation?”<\/p>\n