Report: Celtics targeting Blake Griffin, "major deal involving Boston is coming soon"
Hold onto your butts, gang. Increasing talk around the information super highway supporting that the Boston Celtics are looking to make a major move, and soon:
The Celtics are up to something. Talk to any front-office executive here at the annual Summer League festivities , and the consensus is that a major deal involving Boston is coming soon...Source: Sean Deveney, Sporting News
The likely target for the Celtics, according to front-office sources, is Clippers forward Blake Griffin. The Clippers have been weighing trading Griffin all season , and the possibility of a three-team package involving Sacramento sending Rudy Gay to the Clippers has emerged. The Celtics would give up some number of their upcoming draft picks, but opposing front-office members say they don't want to give up either Brooklyn pick Boston can own in the next two years.
This would seemingly back up a previous report made by RealGM's Keith Smith.
