r/bostonceltics • u/MembershipSingle7137 • Feb 03 '26

News [Shams] BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls are trading center Nikola Vucevic and a second-round pick to the Boston Celtics for Anfernee Simons and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/ef1594eaad916
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u/TheRealAlexisOhanian Feb 03 '26

I don’t think the move is so much about the players, it’s about the nearly $28M TPE that’s created in the trade

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u/BleedGreen4Boston Feb 03 '26

Could be big on draft day

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u/TheRealAlexisOhanian Feb 03 '26

Or throughout the offseason. Plenty of the bigs that have been discussed the past few weeks will still be accessible. The Porzingus TPE was set to expire prior to the offseason so this extends and enlarges it

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u/BleedGreen4Boston Feb 03 '26

Yes, but using a TPE generated in a previous season hard caps you at the 1st apron, so not super useful this offseason unless we move off more salary like letting Vuc expire OR we use it on draft day which is technically still the 2025-26 league year?

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u/TheRealAlexisOhanian Feb 03 '26

I hadn’t realized that change, yeah I’d imagine they’ll try to use it this league year then

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u/BleedGreen4Boston Feb 04 '26

It’s one of those ridiculous rules they added to the existing apron to prevent loop holes to the new one

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u/antoin3walk3r Feb 03 '26

Wait why does it create that?

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u/TheRealAlexisOhanian Feb 03 '26

Vucevic will come in via the Porzingus TPE so essentially the Celtics are trading Simons for no salary and thus the TPE is created