Brad Penner-Imagn Images

Report: Celtics Will Have ‘Different Roster’ Next Season

Originally posted on Hoops Wire | By Ashish Mathur | Last updated May 27, 2025 1:58 PM ET

According to Shams Charania of ESPN, the Boston Celtics will have a “different roster” next season.

The Celtics are currently set to have the most expensive roster in the NBA next season.

The new Boston ownership group probably doesn’t want to pay over $500 million for a team that will likely not be a title contender since Jayson Tatum could miss all of next season recovering from his right Achilles tendon tear.

“The Boston Celtics are going to make trades..

They’re definitely going to have a different roster next season” ~ @ShamsCharania #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/ekGdjs7qCi

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) May 27, 2025

The Celtics lost to the New York Knicks in the second round of this year’s playoffs in six games after winning the championship last year against the Dallas Mavericks in five games.

Boston probably won’t trade Jaylen Brown or Derrick White, but Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis could be moved.

Holiday will make $32,400,000 next season, while Porzingis will make $30,731,707 in the final year of his contract.

The Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks are interested in trading for Holiday. The UCLA product is a two-time NBA champion.

The Celtics, who were sold for $6 billion, are a second apron team. A group led by Bill Chisholm, managing partner at Symphony Technology Group, agreed to purchase the Boston franchise.

The group led by Chisholm, a lifelong Celtics fan born and raised in the Boston area, includes Boston business executives and philanthropists Rob Hale — a current Celtics owner — and Bruce A. Beal Jr.

$6.1 billion is the highest amount paid for a franchise in North American sports history.

This article first appeared on Hoops Wire and was syndicated with permission.

More must-reads: