The Boston Celtics have transferred to Jrue Holiday, one of the key man in the 2024 championship, to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Anfernee Simons and two second rounds of the draftas ESPN reported on Monday.
The US chain indicates that with this transfer the Celtics would save about 40 million in 'Luxury Tax', an economic penalty that teams that exceed a salary limit must pay determined by the League.
Holiday, in addition, It has a contract until season 2027-28, with more than 72 million guaranteed salary dollarswhich made him the third best paid player of the Celtics behind Jaylen Brown and Jays Tatum.
The Celtics, sold in March to businessman Bill Chisholm for a value of 6,100 million dollars, They intend to lighten its expensive template this summer After the Tatum Duante Achilles tendon injury.
Tatum will miss much of the next season And the Celtics are in negotiations to transfer more players.
In the Playoffs of 2024, won by the Celtics to the Dallas Mavericks (4-1)Holiday averaged 13.2 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game.
Holiday, 35, He already played for a few hours at the Blazers in 2023although he did not wear his shirt, when he was transferred by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2022 in exchange for Damian Lillard. The Blazers then transferred Boston.
In exchange for holiday, Boston Celtics receive Simonsa player who throws well three and who is in his last year of contractwith 27.6 million dollars to receive this season.
