Boston Celtics could package Danilo Gallinari and minimum contracts for $10 million big man mid-season

The Boston Celtics have been devastated by Danilo Gallinari’s ACL tear throughout FIBA competitors in preparation for EuroBasket 2022 after utilizing their one major free agent chip (the TPMLE) to accumulate him.

In Gallinari’s absence, Carmelo Anthony has been mentioned as a possible substitute. Anthony has resurrected his profession over the previous three seasons, proving to nonetheless be deserving of a beginning spot in Portland in the course of the 2019-20 season–earlier than and after the season was suspended because of the pandemic–earlier than serving a extra complementary bench function with the Path Blazers two seasons in the past and Los Angeles Lakers this previous season.

Whether or not Melo is signed to a minimal deal or not, Gallinari’s contract remains to be on the 2022-23 books and owns a participant choice for the 2023-24 season he’s more likely to decide into contemplating the ACL he tore final month was the identical one he tore in 2013 whereas a member of the Denver Nuggets.

In keeping with MassLive’s Brian Robb, it’s doable that Gallinari’s recently-signed deal may very well be packaged with minimal contracts to accumulate a $10 million huge man as soon as his pact is tradeable mid-season:

“(Gallinari’s) wage ($6.5 million) opens up the door for some greater offers since Boston might take again 125 % of that wage. Throw in a pair gamers making minimal cash with Gallinari in a deal and Boston might land a giant man making $10 million or extra. Utilizing Gallinari in a commerce additionally permits the workforce extra flexibility to pursue different upgrades whereas conserving their core intact.”

Who the Boston Celtics might goal with the Danilo Gallinari contract

Realizing the parameters of what a Danilo Gallinari commerce might seem like (a giant man making $10 million+) there are a number of candidates that make sense for the Boston Celtics to focus on as soon as Gallo’s settlement is tradeable.

One who has had expertise enjoying below Cs President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens is Kelly Olynyk. Olynyk was all the time a curious signing for a Detroit Pistons squad that has been rebuilding for the reason that 2018-19 season. As a floor-spacer who isn’t afraid to get bodily on the block, he’d be the right participant to spell Al Horford.

Richaun Holmes is an alternative choice with the Sacramento Kings with Keegan Murray’s current choice doubtlessly pushing the 28-year-old out of the beginning lineup alongside Domantas Sabonis. Bobby Portis can be a really perfect choice if he wasn’t on maybe Boston’s greatest roadblock within the Japanese Convention, the Milwaukee Bucks.