BOSTON – There’s no truth to the rumor that the Celtics are looking to trade Tony Allen, Brian Scalabrine and J.R. Giddens.

A recent ESPN report said that the Celtics have had discussions with the Sacramento Kings and the Philadelphia 76ers and as part of a three-team deal, Sacramento would receive Allen and Scalabrine, along with Samuel Dalembert from the 76ers; the 76ers would obtain Giddens along with Kenny Thomas from the Kings; and the Celtics would get the Kings’ Andres Nocioni.

But Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said that those rumors are completely false.

“In the media, there are people that are more concerned with breaking news than writing truth and writing real history,” Ainge said Wednesday on WEEI when he was asked about the trade rumor. “It’s a competition of who breaks the story first and I have a feeling that there are people with motives trying to get their player traded from another team. That’s how this story got out.”

While the Celtics would love to have another player as talented as Nocioni on their roster (he is a career 37 percent shooter from the 3-point line and solid rebounder), Nocioni’s contract is too big for the Celtics to want to take on.

He singed a five-year, $38 million contract in July of 2007 and has nearly three years and $21 million remaining on that deal.

The Celtics still have to decide whether to re-sign Ray Allen this summer and Paul Pierce also has a player option at the end of the year and could look to renegotiate his contract.

The Celtics have already committed $55 million to Rajon Rondo over the next five years.

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The Celtics signed Mikki Moore late last year to add depth in the frontcourt, but now 7-foot center has found a new home with the Golden State Warriors.

It was hard for him to leave, but he felt like he had to move on. “It was sad,” Moore said of his departure. “I didn’t want it to be over with because I thought we were going to win the championship but it was already written. God had already written it so there was nothing I could do about it.”

Moore said that he is still friends with everyone on the Celtics, and especially Rajon Rondo, Glen Davis, and Kendrick Perkins, who he lived near during his short time in Boston.

“I didn’t re-sign because they’re getting Rasheed [Wallace] and I had to go elsewhere. It’s a business,” Moore said.

Moore has gone from playing for a veteran contender whose foundation is built on defense to playing for a pretender who has a lot of young players who want to score more than play defense.

At 34, Moore is the oldest player on Golden State’s roster, and he says that his new teammates call him the “OG” which stands for Original Gangsta.

“Certain times it is frustrating but some of these young guys are trying to learn,” Moore said. “From my generation to their generation, we were taught to play hard and play defense first. Now the younger guys do the one-on-one thing and from going to high school to college, everybody is thinking about offense. That has been an adjustment but I try to rub off on them and let them know if we stop somebody we’ll score on the other end.”

Moore has played for 11 different teams in his NBA career.

“I’m at the end of my career,” Moore said. “I have maybe two or three more years left. I’m getting playing time. I’m with a bunch of guys who really want to play, work and who want to win. We are going through reconstruction just like I was when I was with Sacramento so I’ve been on this boat before.”

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Like Moore is in Golden State, Ray Allen is one of the “big brother” figures in the Celtics locker room.

And so Rajon Rondo, who has been struggling from the free throw line this season, connecting on only 25 percent of his free throws (3-for-12), recently asked Allen, a career 89.3 percent shooter from the free throw line, for some advice on free throws.

Allen said that he told Rondo to put more of an arc on his free throws because a lot of his misses “are line drives.”

Allen said that Rondo has been making more free throws in practice this week because of that advice.

rlee@projo.com