The Washington Wizards were the busiest and probably the most generous team before the NBA Draft on Thursday as they traded three star players to different teams at surprisingly low prices.

You can find our analysis here for the Bradley Beal deal. The second star the Wizards sent away was Kristaps Porzingis, who joined the Boston Celtics in a three-team trade that also involved the Memphis Grizzlies. The details are in the following:

The Wizards received Tyus Joes from the Grizzlies, Danilo Gallinari, Mike Muscala and this year's No. 35 draft pick from the Celtics; the Celtics received Porzingis from the Wizards, the Grizzlies 25th pick for this year's NBA Draft and the Golden State Warriors' top-four-protected first rounder in 2024; the Grizzlies received Marcus Smart from the Celtics.

Porzingis exercised his $36 million player option for the 2023-24 season. Having joined the NBA in 2015, he made 65 appearances for the Wizards last season, playing more than 60 games for the first time in five years and averaging career-high 23.2 points, 8.4 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 2.1 triples at 38.5 percent per game.

Many may argue that Porzingis is no longer a star player after tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in 2018. However, he can still play an important role in the Celtics as a 2.21-meter-tall spacing big man. The Celtics last season relied a lot on their five-out squad offensively. Al Horford played center in that squad but he only averaged 9.3 points per game last season. Compared with him, Porzingis is 10 years younger and much more productive in scoring.

Porzingis can be a defensive upgrade for the Celtics as well. He is much bigger than both Horford and Robert Williams III. Though he is not an elite rebounder or a flexible defender, he can fill the paint while the rest of the team make a solid perimeter defensive line that is able to switch everything.

Smart probably is the best-fitting defender for the Grizzlies. As the 2021-22 NBA Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY), Smart is good at everything on the defensive front, ranging from switching, locking down the opponents' perimeter ace, drawing charges to attacking the ball. He is as aggressive as Dillon Brooks defensively, but much smarter and calmer in taking actions. The pair of Smart and last season's DPOY Jarren Jackson Jr. can make the Grizzlies an even better defensive team after finishing the 2022-23 campaign with the second-best defensive rating of all 30 teams.

The Wizards continued their "charitable aid" after the Porzingis deal. They traded Chris Paul, whom they acquired via the Bradley Beal deal with the Phoenix Suns earlier this week, to the Golden State Warriors for Jordan Poole, Ryan Rollins, a protected 2030 first-round pick and a 2027 second-round pick.

Having traded away three star caliber players in Beal, Porzingis and Paul, the Wizards only got one first rounder. It seems unreal after the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Cleveland Cavaliers and other teams gave up a tremendous number of first-round picks in blockbuster deals.

Considering the timing of the Warriors sending away Poole and his four-year, $128 million contract, the team is more likely to keep Draymond Green, who opted out of the last year of his deal. Like we mentioned many times, Paul has nothing of his $30 million guaranteed for the 2024-25 season. The Warriors unlikely to keep him for that salary at that time. Therefore, his arrival to the team for the 2023-24 campaign is more like a last attempt for a ring.

Paul, 38, is no longer a qualified starting point guard for a team targeting the NBA championship, especially in the playoffs, because of aging and injuries. Nonetheless, his court vision, pace control and passing skills are the least-affected by the two factors. He can play a good leader of the bench unit for the Warriors like Shaun Livingston and Andre Iguodala did between 2015 and 2018. If the opponents don't have explosive back-court attackers, Paul can join Stephen Curry in the teams clutch-time lineup.