Smart on Celtics: ‘They told me I wasn’t going to be traded and then I found out on Twitter’

After a… life in Boston and the Celtics, Marcus Smart was traded this summer to the Memphis Grizzlies.

The 29-year-old American guard is preparing for the start of the new NBA season as part of a young and talented team, however, even four months after the trade that sent him to Memphis, he cannot… digest the “betrayal” of the “Celts” ».

Speaking to “Athletic”, the veteran ace referred to the talks he had this summer with the people of the Celtics, throwing his “nail” for the promises that they gave him and that finally didn’t last!

“They told me that everything is fine, after I asked them many times, after hearing rumours. They told me that I am fine, everything will be fine. And then I found out about my exchange first from Sams Sarania on twitter and then from my team”he said, clearly upset by the development of the case.

Marcus Smart says Boston had told him he wouldn’t be traded and says he discovered his trade via Shams’ tweet before hearing it from Boston directly ??

“I was told everything was good after asking multiple times. Like, ‘I’m hearing (rumors), what’s going on?’ And they’re like,… pic.twitter.com/RZFwj645i6

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) October 24, 2023