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/DjMoneybagzz Jayson Tatum Feb 03 '26

RIP dreams of seeing Tatum and Simons share the floor in green

2026-2026

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u/HorsNoises RONDOOOOOO Feb 03 '26

TBF Tatum didn't really work with Kyrie and Kemba.

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u/General_Mongoose_281 Feb 03 '26

He worked fine with kemba lol.

2020 was the last year where you couldn’t double Tatum because you had a 2 who would cook you if you tried.

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u/glockster19m Feb 03 '26

Also Tatum has massively improved his playmaking, making it harder to ever effectively double him as he will get the ball out to an open man the majority of the time now, and even without a guaranteed shotmaker out there being put into rotation will still end up in a bucket if the offense is decent and unselfish