A Stephen Curry trade to Boston is still squarely in the realm of fantasy, but it’s the kind of fantasy that gets louder the more you stare at it. There’s no credible reporting saying the Warriors are shopping their franchise star or that the Celtics are actively pursuing him. Even so, the fit is easy to see, and that’s why the speculation keeps hanging around.
Curry has long had a connection to New England, and he already knows Jayson Tatum through Team USA. The two were supposedly golfing together recently on Martha’s Vineyard.
On the court, the logic is obvious: Boston could use a high-end shooting point guard, and Curry would slide into Joe Mazzulla’s offense like a missing piece. A trade framework also isn’t hard to imagine, with Paul George’s contract serving as the main salary ballast and Boston sending out picks and players to help Golden State jump-start a rebuild.
There’s also the timing. Curry is in the final year of his deal, and beyond his loyalty to the Warriors and the desire to spend his whole career in one place, it’s difficult to make a strong case for him to sit through what could be noncompetitive seasons with no clear path back to contention.
It still feels like a long shot that Golden State would hit the nuclear button or that Curry would force the issue, but in today’s NBA, that possibility is impossible to ignore. If it ever did happen, Boston would make as much sense as anyone for a future Hall of Famer chasing more rings.
And if that wild scenario ever came true, it would be a brutal twist for Al Horford.
Horford has already left Boston twice in free agency in search of better situations, and both times the move backfired. His first departure to Philadelphia went so badly that the team salary dumped him after one season, and his career looked close to being washed before Brad Stevens brought him back from OKC. The second time, he had every reason to believe Boston might be headed for a gap year last season, so he joined a Warriors team that didn’t even make the playoffs and now looks headed for the lottery again next year.
If Golden State were to tear it down and send Curry to Boston, Horford could be stuck on a Warriors roster that instantly becomes one of the worst in the league while his old Celtics teammates sit in the title mix, if not the favorite’s chair. That would be one final sting in a career that has already featured more than a little irony.
None of that erases what Horford has meant to Boston. He’s been a huge part of banner 18 and will always have a place in Celtics history.
But as a decision-maker, the track record looks rough. If he had trusted the organization and stayed put, he might have collected even more glory, maybe even a bubble Finals run in 2020 and a much higher playoff floor last season.
There is, at least, one way Horford could soften the blow: if he found a path into any Curry-to-Boston deal and got rescued by the Celtics for a third time. Some fans may be ready to move on, but he’s been counted out before, and that judgment turned out badly. He may still have enough left for one more run - and if that run ever exists, he should probably start by convincing Steph to help make it happen.
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