{"id":477774,"date":"2024-02-07T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477774"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:27:10","slug":"boston-acquires-xavier-tillman-from-memphis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-acquires-xavier-tillman-from-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston acquires Xavier Tillman from Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston secured Xavier Tillman from the Grizzlies in exchange for a pair of 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round selections, giving the Celtics some big-man depth before the most crucial part of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Celtics are acquiring Xavier Tillman from the Grizzlies in exchange for two second-round picks, per ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6c9ZzLOgsG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6c9ZzLOgsG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticNBA\/status\/1755316773455618438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies are receiving the Atlanta Hawks&#8217; 2027 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round selection and the Dallas Mavericks&#8217; 2030 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round pick as part of the exchange, while Xavier will go to the Celtics in the existing 6.2 million dollar trade exception.<\/p>\n<p>He is averaging 6 points and almost 5 boards for the Grizzlies in 34 matches this campaign. While Tillman has problems with his shot, his defensive skills are impressive, as he has over 1 steal and 1 block in 20 minutes per match.<\/p>\n<p>This will give opportunities to manager Joe Mazzulla alongside Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford, and Luke Kornet at the heart of the Celtics defense.<\/p>\n<p>Boston did the same in the past campaign when they acquired Mike Muscala from OKC at the last moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston secured Xavier Tillman from the Grizzlies in exchange for a pair of 2nd round selections, giving the Celtics some big-man depth before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477775,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18062,22638,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Tillman will join the Celtics after the franchise trade for him.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477776,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477774\/revisions\/477776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477774"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477774"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}