Kings want to chase Holiday to fill the point guard vacancy, new general manager Perry has admired the players for a long time

On May 24, according to the report of Clutch Points reporter Brett Siegel, the Kings are interested in obtaining Celtics defender Holiday through a trade. After trading Fox to the Spurs, the Kings urgently needed a point guard.

Brett Siegel wrote: "The source said that Holiday is a veteran of the Kings who are interested in. But the ultimate question is whether the Celtics will send Holiday away in the trade negotiations. The new general manager Scott Perry has made it clear that the team needs a real point guard, and he has always admired Holiday when he was in the Knicks." The source also revealed that Perry wanted to explore the possibility of introducing him in New York before Holiday was traded to the Bucks in 2020.

Since the Celtics will have a total salary of about $500 million if they do not make lineup adjustments, they may break up their core squads this offseason.

Holiday averaged 11.1 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.9 assists in the regular season of the 2024-25 season. In the 7 games against the Magic and the Knicks in the 2025 playoffs, he averaged 10.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists. Holiday, who earns $32.4 million next season, has played for the 76ers, Pelicans, Bucks and Celtics in his career. The UCLA-produced player has a career average of 15.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 6.2 assists.

The Kings have missed the playoffs for two consecutive seasons. They made the playoffs for the first time since 2006 in 2023, but lost in the first round of the tiebreak with the Golden State Warriors.