{"id":581617,"date":"2026-02-04T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/581617\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:17:20","slug":"bulls-trade-nikola-vucevic-to-celtics-for-anfernee-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/581617\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls trade Nikola Vucevic to Celtics for Anfernee Simons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics are acquiring center Nikola Vucevic from the Chicago Bulls in exchange for guard Anfernee Simons and a second-round draft pick, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic, 35, is expected to help Boston&#8217;s frontcourt. The former All-Star averaged nearly 17 points and nine rebounds per game during the 2025-26 regular season. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Boston, however, will lose a huge asset off the bench in Simons, 26. <\/p>\n<p>The guard averaged just over 14 points and two rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics completed the deal ahead of the NBA trade deadline, which is Thursday at 3 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 The Boston Celtics are acquiring center Nikola Vucevic from the Chicago Bulls in exchange for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3771],"tags":[4329,15479,7,75,920,46,919,329,3824,10337,130,5258,10844,142,4123,6,3853,65,3039,31915,409,3067],"class_list":{"0":"post-581617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-anfernee-simons","9":"tag-app","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bulls","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-chicago","15":"tag-chicago-bulls","16":"tag-chicagobulls","17":"tag-download","18":"tag-espn","19":"tag-exchange","20":"tag-frontcourt","21":"tag-game","22":"tag-help","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-nikola-vucevic","25":"tag-point","26":"tag-rebound","27":"tag-second-round-draft-pick","28":"tag-trade","29":"tag-update"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116011849985521715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581617","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=581617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}