Josh Minott went to the Nets on Thursday in exchange for cash considerations.
Josh Minott went to the Nets on Thursday in exchange for cash considerations.Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff
For the Celtics, Thursday’s NBA trade deadline was busy but not seismic, with the team making a series of minor moves that reshuffled the bottom of the roster and created new openings.
According to a league source, Boston agreed to send wing Josh Minott to the Nets in exchange for cash considerations. The source said Boston also agreed to trade center Xavier Tillman and cash to the Hornets in exchange for a 2030 second-round pick that is top-55 protected, and they finalized a deal that sent forward Chris Boucher and a second-round pick to the Jazz in exchange for two-way contract guard John Tonji.
Multiple league sources said the team also converted center Amari Williams’s two-way contract to a standard NBA deal. The Celtics have been encouraged by the play of the rookie big man in recent weeks, and the departures of Tillman and Boucher made it a logical promotion to fortify the team’s big man depth.
The Celtics’ biggest move of the week came Tuesday, when it agreed to trade guard Anfernee Simons to the Bulls in exchange for former All-Star center Nikola Vucevic. That deal was finalized Thursday.
After this flurry of moves, the Celtics will have three empty roster spots. They will have two weeks to fill two of them to get to the league minimum of 14, but the looming All-Star break will reduce the urgency a bit.
The Celtics are also now below all of the salary cap aprons, which will give them added roster flexibility. They also at least temporarily dipped below the luxury tax line.
But a league source stressed that the goal of this deadline week was to upgrade the frontcourt in advance of a playoff push, and the team believes it accomplished that with the acquisition of Vucevic.
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