{"id":10093,"date":"2025-06-24T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10093\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:01:09","slug":"trail-blazers-trade-anfernee-simons-for-jrue-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10093\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers Trade Anfernee Simons for Jrue Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"nxZmBu\">In a shocking move the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> have traded guard Anfernee Simons to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> for point guard Jrue Holiday. The Blazers are sending a pair of second-round picks to Boston along with Simons. Shams Charania of ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shamscharania\/status\/1937354016171917821?s=12\" rel=\"nofollow\">broke the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Boston Celtics have traded Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers for Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ycXQicGkT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2ycXQicGkT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1937354016171917821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 24, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"9R4Nw8\">Simons, a 26-year-old combo guard, averaged 19.3 points and 4.8 assists in 32.7 minutes per game for the Blazers last season, his seventh in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bu6Zqw\">Holiday, who is 35, averaged 11.1 points and 3.9 assists in 30.6 minutes per game over 62 appearances for the Celtics last year. He is a two-time NBA champion, once with the Celtics in 2024 and once with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewhoop.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p id=\"jAefx9\">Simons is on the last year of his contract. He is scheduled to make $27.7 million next season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lAgTw1\">Holiday signed a four-year, $135 million extension in 2024. He is set to make $32.4 million next year, $34.8 million in 2026-27, and $37.2 million on a player option in 2027-28.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pXFwU3\">The Blazers previously acquired Holiday as part of a trade in 2023 that sent Damian Lillard to the Bucks. Holiday never played for Portland, as the Blazers moved him to the Celtics soon after.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dVrF17\">We will have more on this story as it develops.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a shocking move the Portland Trail Blazers have traded guard Anfernee Simons to the Boston Celtics for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11087,11091,11086,11092,381,204,51,11090,11089,50,196,11088,52,130,11085,11093],"class_list":{"0":"post-10093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anfernee","9":"tag-blazer","10":"tag-blazers","11":"tag-edge","12":"tag-for","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-holiday","16":"tag-jrue","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-s","19":"tag-simons","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-trail","23":"tag-trail-blazers-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114737059167084678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}