If you’ve been around the Celtics long enough, Jerome Moiso is one of those names that can pull a memory out of the deep archive.
Moiso was a 6-foot-10 left-handed forward from France who played at UCLA before Boston took him with the No. 11 overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft. His Celtics run never turned into much - he played 145 NBA games overall, averaged 2.7 points and 2.7 rebounds, and logged time with the Celtics, Hornets, Raptors, Nets and Cavaliers before being out of the league by 2005.
But the real legacy wasn’t what Moiso did on the floor. It was the trade chain that followed him.
That chain has now run out of road. Nikola Vucevic was one of the pieces connected to it, and with his signing with the Orlando Magic, there are no more trade branches left to extend.
It all began in August 2001, when Boston sent Moiso to the 76ers for Roshown McLeod and a 2003 first-round pick. That pick became Dahntay Jones, and Jones was the next link in the line.
In June 2003, the Celtics moved Jones and Troy Bell to the Grizzlies for Marcus Banks and Kendrick Perkins. Perkins lasted a long time in Boston, but he eventually became part of a February 2011 deal with Nate Robinson to the Oklahoma City Thunder that brought back Jeff Green and a few picks.
Green later entered a three-team trade in January 2015 that sent a future first-round pick to the Celtics. That pick turned into Aaron Nesmith in 2020.
From there, the trail kept moving. Boston traded Nesmith in July 2022 to the Indiana Pacers in the package for Malcolm Brogdon. Brogdon then went to the Portland Trail Blazers in the October 2023 deal for Jrue Holiday.
The Celtics sent Holiday back to Portland in July 2025 for Anfernee Simons, and Simons was later dealt before the deadline to the Chicago Bulls for Vucevic.
With Vucevic leaving through free agency instead of another trade, the Moiso tree has finally reached its last branch.
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