THE SIDELINES : Shaw Would Play in NBA, If . . .

Brian Shaw will play in the NBA, but only if the Boston Celtics trade him, Shaw’s lawyer says.

Shaw is under a federal court order prohibiting him from playing in Italy or anywhere else except for the Celtics or for a team to which the Celtics might trade him.

Shaw has threatened to sit out the basketball season if he is not traded.

“Yes, he will play for someone else in the United States,” Laura Carroll, Shaw’s Boston-based attorney, told The Providence Journal-Bulletin in an interview published today.

“He would like to. That’s the next move,” she said.