NBA Trade Deadline Shocker: Which Teams Emerged as True Winners—and Who Might Regret Their Moves?
What they’ve done: The Celtics reportedly traded 26-year-old reserve guard Anfernee Simons and their 2026 second-round draft pick to the Chicago Bulls for Nikola Vučević.
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Did they get better? They got … different?
Simons was a helpful player off the bench for Boston, delivering consistently superb shotmaking, along with improved defense, as one of a handful of players who have made the Celtics better than we thought they were going to be. They will miss him, though his absence will sting a lot less, or not at at all, if and when Jayson Tatum returns to the lineup.



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