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NBA: First bomb on the market: Celtics send Kemba Walker to Oklahoma

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18/06/2021

15:52

LThe first bomb on the NBA market has starred Kemba Walker. The season has not finished and the Celtics have already sent Oklahoma to the point guard four times All Star along with their pick in position 16 of the next draft and a second in 2025. In exchange they receive Al Horford, Moses Brown and a selection of second round of 2023.

The operation, advanced by journalist Adrian Wojnarowski, comes after a disappointing season for Walker who, due to a bruise on a bone in his left knee, missed the last two games of the first round of playoffs against the Nets. Following the elimination, the Celtics guard, who had two years left on his contract for $ 73 million, said he needed to focus on recovering after struggling with his left knee for most of 2020 that led to him missing the game. start of the 2020-21 season. He missed 29 regular season games in total.

Horford, meanwhile, returns to the Celtics, where he already played between 2016 and 2019. This season he has not participated in the last 28 games of the Thunder, one of the worst teams in the NBA, who have wanted to take advantage of to give minutes to young people of your template. The 34-year-old has two more years on his contract for which he will earn $ 53.5 million.

The Thunder now have three first-round picks in this year’s draft. Looking ahead to the next six editions, they have 18 first-round elections and 17 in the second. Reconstruction involves contributing to young people and becoming an engineer with all the possibilities that the draft offers them.

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