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Anfernee Simons #22 of the Chicago Bulls was traded from the Boston Celtics.
In what was partly a positional move and partly a move to shave off just enough salary to begin the process of getting the Boston Celtics below the NBA’s luxury tax threshold, the team traded away guard Anfernee Simons to the Bulls early this month, bringing back center Nikola Vucevic and saving a little more than $6 million off the Boston payroll.
The Celtics needed a center and had a glut of guards, so moving Simons made sense. Vucevic has been effective in five games off the bench, averaging 11.8 points and…