Slot Machine wrote:That Jrue contract is awful. I wouldn’t touch it unless we’re getting compensated to.
Listening to Bill Simmons podcast, he seemed most open to the idea of trading Jrue and how they gave him that deal to take care of him and they were about to start the playoffs in the year they won it.
Im convinced ownership and management did it on purpose. They paid all these guys, won a ring, cemented themselves in Celtics history and then sold the team, knowing full well there would be massive tax implications and repeater stuff and Celtics would have this year window (which slammed shut) and now Celtics are in a much more difficult position. And it's not like the new group doesnt know this but they took the chance.
Anyway back to Jrue. Bill was saying how bad it is that they'll need to cut 20M to get under 2nd apron. And then Ryen Russillo was like. That contract is awful. There's no money or teams with cap. The team's with cap, won't want jrue. Which is what I've been saying also. And then Ryen was like, does boston have to give a pick to get a team to take him. And Bill was like, idk. Maybe.
I think the answer is yes, definitely.
Teams lack of cap space and fear of 2nd apron and repeater tax is really going to limit this off-season. Teams might be getting 50 cents on the dollar in trades and free agents will be very disappointed.
I also think both suns and Celtics would want duncan so they can terminate him, so there's no chance we get both somehow in some crazy big trade unless nets or someone else is involved.
