Roy Hibbert to Boston (Bird hits the reset button and helps his old team)

[Scoot McGroot]

Boston say NO...
Wallace is valuable next season 2016 trade deadline a huge expiry.
And Boston Give too much for Indiana.

Wallace is simply NEVER valuable. In fact, as an expiring, he's a lesser valued one as you'd have to pay something for the other team to take him on, then you'd still have to pay the premium for the player you actually want. A Jordan Hill (if the Lakers do keep him) would be the much more ideal contract filler.

As a Boston Fan I would rather keep wallace salary of 10.1M until it expires next year rather than to pay 15.5 M at player option and candidate for maximum salary next year. It is big insight on Boston side.

That's an absolutely fair building perspective. However, it's just not right to associate the word "valuable" with Gerald Wallace. Even as an expiring, he's a giant brick that no one wants. He's a guy a team has to buy out immediately as he's a waste of a roster spot.

I understand there are many ways to view a rebuild. I just don't think there's a negative when you say a guy will have to be max paid. If he does, then he's a top notch big man that would fill a role for you. It's a worse situation if he would then be much less costly in the market, as he'd be a worse player. Kind of a weird situation to complain about.

[DanTown8587]

The idea of an expiring contract having value made more sense in the days when deals went for six/seven years and then a team offered you salvation to get out of the last three/four years of a deal. Now that deals are just a few years at most, expiring contracts are

1. More plentiful around the league
2. Less important as contracts typically expire before they get too bad

Also, Wallace acts as an expiring contract the year before the biggest cap increase in the sports history, not like teams need him to clear space.