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Post by fierce on Dec 15, 2022 17:57:13 GMT -5
Your Christmas present comes early, hedley.
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Post by kyceltic on Dec 15, 2022 19:04:59 GMT -5
Your Christmas present comes early, hedley. And right on scheduled time frame!
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Post by elvissurfs on Dec 15, 2022 23:46:15 GMT -5
But what about PP? The same way it wouldn't be fair to trade Gallo, it is kinda unfair to let PP just sit. He could play elsewhere. He knows it and Brad knows it. Agree...
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Post by elvissurfs on Dec 15, 2022 23:56:27 GMT -5
Hopefully RWill plays about five minutes...don't give an eff about playing on Christmas...
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Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2022 0:14:39 GMT -5
But what about PP? The same way it wouldn't be fair to trade Gallo, it is kinda unfair to let PP just sit. He could play elsewhere. He knows it and Brad knows it. Agree...
If we had to pick a player who is most likely to be traded, we’d begrudgingly pick Payton Pritchard. Point guard is the team’s deepest position. Pritchard can’t crack the rotation when all of Marcus Smart, Derrick White and Malcolm Brogdon are available. That means he could be available…in theory. But as Pritchard still has another full season left on his rookie scale deal after this one, and Smart and Brogdon are good bets to miss some games, don’t look for a deal.
Danilo Gallinari could also be dealt. His $6.5 million salary is a nice piece of salary-matching in a potential deal. But given their already less-than-sterling reputation for being ruthless, Boston isn’t going to deal an injured player who never even got to suit up for his dream club. Unless of course another injury necessitates filling a hole, then it’ll be “We hardly knew ya!” time for Gallinari.
With the Celtics being a little light in terms of second-round picks to juice any offers with, they could offer Begarin or, more likely, Madar in place of a pick. Both players are good enough as prospects that a rival team might have interest.
If the Celtics want or need to make a deal, they’ve got everything they need to make one. They’ve got more than enough matching salary to trade for anyone. They can offer up to as many as three unprotected first-round picks. They can use TPEs or the DPE to structure trades in a helpful way.
Trade season might be a boring one for Boston for a change. But that doesn’t mean trade season’s less-attractive cousin, buyout season, might not have lots to offer.
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Post by hedleylamarr on Dec 16, 2022 6:52:04 GMT -5
If we had to pick a player who is most likely to be traded, we’d begrudgingly pick Payton Pritchard. Point guard is the team’s deepest position. Pritchard can’t crack the rotation when all of Marcus Smart, Derrick White and Malcolm Brogdon are available. That means he could be available…in theory. But as Pritchard still has another full season left on his rookie scale deal after this one, and Smart and Brogdon are good bets to miss some games, don’t look for a deal.
Danilo Gallinari could also be dealt. His $6.5 million salary is a nice piece of salary-matching in a potential deal. But given their already less-than-sterling reputation for being ruthless, Boston isn’t going to deal an injured player who never even got to suit up for his dream club. Unless of course another injury necessitates filling a hole, then it’ll be “We hardly knew ya!” time for Gallinari.
With the Celtics being a little light in terms of second-round picks to juice any offers with, they could offer Begarin or, more likely, Madar in place of a pick. Both players are good enough as prospects that a rival team might have interest.
If the Celtics want or need to make a deal, they’ve got everything they need to make one. They’ve got more than enough matching salary to trade for anyone. They can offer up to as many as three unprotected first-round picks. They can use TPEs or the DPE to structure trades in a helpful way.
Trade season might be a boring one for Boston for a change. But that doesn’t mean trade season’s less-attractive cousin, buyout season, might not have lots to offer.
100% agree with this. We may be more active in the buyout market than the trade market
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Post by cole on Dec 16, 2022 9:30:06 GMT -5
Jeez the Bucks schedule next week is as bad as ours last week. Up till they play us.
They will either be exhausted or have tanked in Brooklyn when they come to Boston. I doubt they want to tank to Brooklyn. I hope both are televised.
By new year I expect to be 3 or 4 games up. Of course they got drilled last night in Memphis so we're up what 2 with 1 less loss already?
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Post by cole on Dec 16, 2022 9:35:17 GMT -5
I was also thinking, if we still have a LeBron monkey from that ecf several years ago, we ripped him off now for good.
We got steph monkey now on the other shoulder though. But the Warriors may be in trouble with his shoulder
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Post by kyceltic on Dec 16, 2022 10:02:17 GMT -5
I was also thinking, if we still have a LeBron monkey from that ecf several years ago, we ripped him off now for good. We got steph monkey now on the other shoulder though. But the Warriors may be in trouble with his shoulder I think they're in big trouble!
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Post by hedleylamarr on Dec 16, 2022 10:57:13 GMT -5
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, who is averaging a career-high 30.2 points per game, claimed 47 first-place votes and was on 98 of 100 ballots cast in the 2022-23 debut of ESPN’s NBA MVP straw poll, which was conducted from Sunday to Tuesday. Tatum would become the first Celtics player since Larry Bird to win the league’s highest individual honor — now named after Jordan following the NBA’s announcement of its newly christened slate of awards earlier this week. Bird is the most recent player to win it three times in a row (1984-86). – via Tim Bontemps @ ESPN Top Rumors, Awards, Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Tatum led the way with 759 total points, followed by Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (36 first-place votes, 687 total points) in second and Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic (10 first-place votes, 392 total points) in third. – via Tim Bontemps @ ESPN Awards, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Dallas Mavericks, Milwaukee Bucks
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Post by cole on Dec 16, 2022 12:25:54 GMT -5
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, who is averaging a career-high 30.2 points per game, claimed 47 first-place votes and was on 98 of 100 ballots cast in the 2022-23 debut of ESPN’s NBA MVP straw poll, which was conducted from Sunday to Tuesday. Tatum would become the first Celtics player since Larry Bird to win the league’s highest individual honor — now named after Jordan following the NBA’s announcement of its newly christened slate of awards earlier this week. Bird is the most recent player to win it three times in a row (1984-86). – via Tim Bontemps @ ESPN Top Rumors, Awards, Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics Tatum led the way with 759 total points, followed by Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (36 first-place votes, 687 total points) in second and Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic (10 first-place votes, 392 total points) in third. – via Tim Bontemps @ ESPN Awards, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Dallas Mavericks, Milwaukee Bucks Re Gianis vs Tatum, give me skill over athleticism, but that's just my preference
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