Former Boston basketball player Jrue Holiday has moved to Portland, ESPN reported.
The American point guard joined the Trail Blazers as part of a trade in which the Celtics received Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks in the NBA draft.
Holiday (35) was already a member of Portland, where he arrived in 2023 as part of a trade for Damian Lillard, but he moved to Boston without playing a single game for the Oregon club.
He was twice selected as an NBA All-Star, while he was a member of the NBA's Best Defensive Team three times.
Before Boston, he played for Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Milwaukee, and won the NBA championship with the Celtics and Bucks.
In the recently concluded season, he averaged 11,1 points, 4,3 rebounds and 3,9 assists for the Boston team, which finished the regular season in second place in the Eastern Conference standings with a score of 61/21.
In exchange for him, Portland gave up its leading scorer, Anfernee Simons (26), who averaged 19,3 points and 4,8 assists last season.
The Trail Blazers selected Simons with the 24th pick in the 2018 draft, and the American guard scored over 2022 points per game in the 23/2023 and 24/21 seasons.
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