{"id":519243,"date":"2026-01-06T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519243\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:15:08","slug":"should-celtics-go-all-in-and-be-buyers-at-the-2026-nba-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519243\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Celtics go all-in and be buyers at the 2026 NBA trade deadline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Should the Boston Celtics go all-in and be buyers at the 2026 NBA trade deadline? Given the fact that star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown has been playing at the level of a bona fide Most Valuable Player candidate so far this season and that Boston has defied the odds alongside him to claw their way up to the Eastern Conference&#8217;s third-place spot, there is a very strong case that they ought to be on the hunt for some talent to add to the roster.<\/p>\n<p>The frontcourt stands out in particular as an area of need, with the Celtics needing a little bit of veteran experience and a different style of big man play to put next to blossoming young big man Neemias Queta. The folks behind the &#8220;WEEI Boston&#8217;s Sports Original&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip from their &#8220;Greg Hill&#8221; show that takes a deeper look at what Boston ought to do in light of their unexpected success this season.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about potential Celtics trades and more.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube:<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should the Boston Celtics go all-in and be buyers at the 2026 NBA trade deadline? Given the fact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,70,85,6,14441,4986,67,61,134,132,14442,66,83],"class_list":["post-519243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neemias","tag-neemias-queta","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-queta","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115845511556379586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}