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The Boston Celtics have been busy this offseason.
Their offseason started with a trade that added Kristaps Porzingis to a squad that came within a game of a second consecutive NBA Finals appearance last season.
The move ensured that the Celtics would remain among the favorites to win it all next season in spite of their surprising playoff exit against the Heat.
Then they made a move that their fans were quite a bit less excited bout.
That move was the trade that sent Grant Williams to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for some picks.
In the aftermath of the deal, it looks like Williams is already hearing some trash talk from one of his former teammates.
Williams told the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach that last week he went to dinner with Jayson Tatum and Tatum said, “I’m gonna bust your a** when we play Dallas”.
Williams fired back with some trash talk of his own. He responded, “You think? You can’t go left. And I’m gonna be physical with you and you’ll go cry to the referees.”
“I’m gonna bust your ass when we play Dallas,” Tatum told Grant at dinner last week.
“You think?” Williams said. “You can’t go left. And I’m gonna be physical with you and you’ll go cry to the referees.”
Grant said he’ll miss these interactions the most.https://t.co/qtGDuCVwSa
— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) July 15, 2023
Williams will get a couple of chances to prove that he won this breakup in matchups between the Mavs and Celtics and he’ll probably be the first player to volunteer to defend Jayson Tatum when those matchups come around.
The Boston Celtics will probably end up missing Grant Williams next season as he played an important role on their team that made it to the NBA Finals.
For now, it looks like he’ll be exchanging trash talk with the other guys from that team as his old team tries to replace him in their rotation.