Celtics’ Trade of Veteran Player Ruined His Plans for International Competition This Summer

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A Boston Celtic trade effectively ruined a brief Boston forward's summer.

Per Marc Stein of The Stein Line, Niang was gearing up to play for Senegal at the AfroBasket tournament this summer — but his multiple trades so disrupted his offseason that the move became impractical.

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"League sources say that Senegal nearly had Georges Niang on its roster for the tournament now that Niang has secured a Senegalese passport, but he was ultimately unavailable to play international ball this summer after being traded twice," Stein writes. "The 32-year-old was recently reacquired by Utah from Boston after initially featuring in the three-way trade that sent Kristaps Porziņģis from the Celtics to the Atlanta Hawks."

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