There’s a simple thing I believe in that stretches across sports: you never want to have too many locker room lawyers on your team.

What is a locker room lawyer? It’s someone who gets the players riled up at the powers that be, whether that be the coaches, management or the league itself. They’re the tattletales. The ‘wait, we aren’t allowed to practice for this long, this is unfair’ types. Another word might be losers.

The Boston Celtics had Jaylen Brown, Grant Williams and Malcolm Brogdon on its roster last year. All three are National Basketball Players Association Vice Presidents. How on earth did anyone in the Celtics organization think this was going to be a good idea?

It seems the C’s have realized this, with Malcolm Brogdon apparently the first to go. According to Shams, he’s off to the Clippers in a three-way trade that sends Kristaps Porzingis to the Commonwealth. Good! The Celts needed more size, Porzingis is coming off a season where he averaged 23 points, eight rebounds and shot .385 from three on a wretched Wizards team.

It shouldn’t stop there. Williams — who might go down as the least-likable Celtic of my lifetime — should be the next one out the door. Get him off this team. He thinks he’s an important player, as evident by him thinking he was going to get 20 million in free agency this year. He’s nothing more than a ninth man on a good team.

Did anyone miss him when he rode the pine this postseason? Was the reason the Celtics didn’t make the finals again because of Williams? Probably according to him, but to the rest of us with brains, we know that isn’t true. He’s expendable. He’s just another guy. The way he carries himself like he’s an All-NBA player and as if he’s made it because he’s part of the tattletale club in the NBPA is laughable. He should spend his years wasting away jacking up wild, offline three’s in Detroit.

As for Brown, I wouldn’t be scared to trade him too. If he actually gets the full max contract — which is highly doubt — it will be the worst contract in the league. Imagine giving 50-60 million dollars a year to a guy who can only dribble with one hand, is easy taken advantage of by good teams in the postseason and falls apart during a game seven of the Eastern Conference finals when the real best player on your team gets injured? I wouldn’t be caught dead doing that and it amazes me how many Celtics fans want to hold onto him at all costs.

I’d be looking at young assets for Brown, who still should fetch you something on the market. My ideal spot would be Portland, but not for the guy you’re thinking. No, I’m not giving Brown up for Damien Lillard. I’ll pass on a 33-year-old short guard who’s also on an inflated contract.

Give me the third pick and Anfernee Simons and you have a deal. Simons is 24 years old and averaged 21 a game last year and you can use that third pick on either Scoot or Brandon Miller. If it’s Scoot you then move off Marcus Smart for a wing. If it’s Miller you have a guard core of Smart, Simons and White, wings in Miller and Tatum and size with Porzingis, Al Horford and the Timelord.

That’s a championship team. That’s not a team that will max out in the Eastern Conference finals. That’s a team that can compete with Denver and the rest of the league to take home title 18 and put a shake up on a team that has underachieved for nearly my entire lifetime.