Jrue Holiday trade: Celtics beat Knicks to deal for veteran guard

Jrue Holiday will not be heading to the Knicks after all.

Instead, he’s on the way to a division rival.

And not just any rival: after acquiring Holiday in the Damian Lillard trade with the Milwaukee Bucks, the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed to a deal to send Holiday, a veteran guard proficient on both ends of the floor, to the Boston Celtics. In exchange, the Celtics have traded rim-protecting center Robert Williams to the Trail Blazers, as well as a pair of first-round picks and veteran guard Malcolm Brogdon.

The gap between the Bucks and Celtics as championship contenders and the rest of the Eastern Conference just widened.

More to come on this developing story.