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Milwaukee Bucks: Five Potential Trade Partners To Take A Center

By Ti Windisch

Nov 1, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Milwaukee Bucks center Greg Monroe (15) and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis (23) fun up the floor during the first quarter of a game at the Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 1, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Milwaukee Bucks center Greg Monroe (15) and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis (23) fun up the floor during the first quarter of a game at the Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports /
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Boston Celtics

Right now, the Boston Celtics are without a true rim protector. Al Horford is a good defensive center, but he can’t play with the verticality required to both block shots and grab tons of contested rebounds in close games.

Greg Monroe doesn’t do that either, but John Henson sure does. With his deal cheapening as it goes on, it’s just the kind of contract that Danny Ainge would love to have on his books, even if Henson is a little pricey.

This is one of the easier places to imagine something happening. The Celtics are supposedly trigger-happy, and they have assets to make about five different deals feasible.

Amir Johnson‘s salary matches Henson’s perfectly, and he’s on an expiring deal. Avery Bradley makes too little to be traded directly for Henson, but the Celtics have a lot of cheap deals they could throw in.

I don’t know that Boston wants any part of Henson for Bradley, but in the words of great former Celtic Kevin Garnett “Anything is Possible!”

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