When the Celtics begin the preseason next month, they’ll enter with a much different roster than they had last season.

Years of spending beyond the second apron threshold of the NBA’s luxury tax culminated in them moving Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis to avoid further penalties.

The moves had to be made, Celtics legend Paul Pierce told Heavy Sports’s Steve Bulpett in a recent interview, but the ruptured Achilles’ tendon injury that Jayson Tatum suffered in the playoffs against the Knicks made the call easier than it would have been had the star forward stayed healthy.

““I’m not sure if that injury played a big role in the changes,” Pierce said. “Because I feel like they still would have been in the same situation even if Tatum didn’t get hurt, you know, as far as luxury tax and

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