{"id":583462,"date":"2026-02-05T05:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/583462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:15:12","slug":"warriors-hawks-trade-creates-celtics-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/583462\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors-Hawks trade creates Celtics reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top two centers on last season\u2019s Celtics depth chart are about to become teammates in Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Hawks reached an agreement Wednesday night to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2019266754627682316\" rel=\"nofollow\">trade Kristaps Porzingis to the Warriors<\/a> for guard Buddy Hield and disgruntled forward Jonathan Kuminga, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported.<\/p>\n<p>The move reunites Porzingis with veteran big man Al Horford, who left the Celtics last summer to sign with the Warriors. Boston traded Porzingis to Atlanta during the same offseason roster overhaul, but injuries and illness limited him to 17 games for the Hawks. He did not dress for either of the Hawks\u2019 games against the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis and Horford played two seasons together in Boston and were key pieces of the Celtics\u2019 2023-24 championship team. They won\u2019t have to wait long to see their former squad, as the C\u2019s are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/02\/02\/whats-surprised-al-horford-most-about-celtics-impressive-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set to visit Golden State<\/a> on Feb. 19 in both teams\u2019 first game back from the NBA All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors\u2019 lone visit to TD Garden this season is on March 18. Horford, who spent seven of the last nine seasons in Boston, told the Herald earlier this week that game will \u201cfeel like home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also would be Porzingis\u2019 first return to Causeway Street if he is healthy enough to make the trip. He did not travel for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/01\/28\/celtics-fall-flat-vs-hawks-in-largest-home-loss-since-november\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta\u2019s 117-106 win in Boston<\/a> last Wednesday while he recovered from Achilles tendonitis.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA trade deadline is at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top two centers on last season\u2019s Celtics depth chart are about to become teammates in Golden State.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[869,7,75,46,867,871,25035,78579,6,2828],"class_list":{"0":"post-583462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-celtics","12":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","13":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","14":"tag-kristaps-porzingis-trade","15":"tag-kristaps-porzingis-warriors","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-trade-deadline"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116016324562303405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583462","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=583462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}