Sam Amico: Michael Beasley to Celtics "close"?

[TylerTheDebater]

Beasley + Randolph + Darko for Allen + JO

This makes sense for Boston as they get two bigs, but they should find a third team for Beasley.
Allen makes even more sense for Minnesota (and JO is just a big body who expires so...)

Losing Allen is a big deal for Boston though and Beasley's not the proper replacement since he's a negative on any team he's on until proven otherwise.

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[john2jer]

Threads like this cause me to get a kick out of RealGM posters. Some idiot reporter throws crap at the wall, and then posters here use it as a way to judge GMs and their franchises without using an ounce of common sense.

Why in the world would the Wolves trade Beasley for a useless player who is expiring? I could see them moving Beasley for Ray Allen, who is expiring, but would actually bring something to the Wolves. O'Neal would bring nothing, and likely would never play. If Beasley does get traded to the Celtics, it will be for either Ray Allen or a first round pick. Nothing else makes any sense.

[wesisprez]

Threads like this cause me to get a kick out of RealGM posters. Some idiot reporter throws crap at the wall, and then posters here use it as a way to judge GMs and their franchises without using an ounce of common sense.

Why in the world would the Wolves trade Beasley for a useless player who is expiring? I could see them moving Beasley for Ray Allen, who is expiring, but would actually bring something to the Wolves. O'Neal would bring nothing, and likely would never play. If Beasley does get traded to the Celtics, it will be for either Ray Allen or a first round pick. Nothing else makes any sense.

Sam Amick isn't an idiot reporter...he writes with Chris Mannix for Sports Illustrated. Those two along with WOJ were only a handful of people that first broke the CP3 to LAL trade...I trust his sources at least.

[Tai]

I love guys who invade topics with stuff like "so and so has no credibility". It's one thing to sleep on reporters from the "hoops" family (Insidehoops, Hoopsworld, Hoopshype, Hoops Authority), but I do believe Sam Amico is from Fox Sports. Surely you have something better than "he's not from ESPN or Yahoo! he doesn't count"

[john2jer]

Threads like this cause me to get a kick out of RealGM posters. Some idiot reporter throws crap at the wall, and then posters here use it as a way to judge GMs and their franchises without using an ounce of common sense.

Why in the world would the Wolves trade Beasley for a useless player who is expiring? I could see them moving Beasley for Ray Allen, who is expiring, but would actually bring something to the Wolves. O'Neal would bring nothing, and likely would never play. If Beasley does get traded to the Celtics, it will be for either Ray Allen or a first round pick. Nothing else makes any sense.

Sam Amick isn't an idiot reporter...he writes with Chris Mannix for Sports Illustrated. Those two along with WOJ were only a handful of people that first broke the CP3 to LAL trade...I trust his sources at least.

It's funny that you mention Woj, considering Woj was one of the guys who said that Rubio would NEVER play in Minnesota and no big name, respected head coach would take the Wolves job... Whoops...

Ultimately, they're all idiot reporters.

And how do a "handful of people" "first" break a trade? Can't only one person break a trade, and then the rest are all piggy backing off of it?

I love guys who invade topics with stuff like "so and so has no credibility". It's one thing to sleep on reporters from the "hoops" family (Insidehoops, Hoopsworld, Hoopshype, Hoops Authority), but I do believe Sam Amico is from Fox Sports. Surely you have something better than "he's not from ESPN or Yahoo! he doesn't count"

"Invade"? If you're referring to me, please quote me where I said anything like, "he's not from ESPN or Yahoo! he doesn't count". ESPN is the worst of them.

If anyone honestly believes that the trade is Michael Beasley for Jermaine O'Neal, then yeah, you're an idiot. If that's what Amico is claiming, he's an idiot. And it's sad that the posters here are jumping all over it and not using an ounce of intelligence to think, "Why would the Wolves do that?" But then the general response is, "It's Kahn, he makes stupid trades all the time..." KAAAAHHHHNNNN!!!

Sota has been talking to Boston, amongst other teams, and I can guarantee you that they'e not pushing for a Beasley for {Insert worthless expiring} trade unless there's some kind of incentive tied to it.

Flip the situations around, it would be like saying the Celtics are looking to trade Ray Allen for Brad Miller and Anthony Tolliver. Why would they do something like that?

[JoeHova]

Beasley isn't a very valuable player but he's got to have more value around the league than Jermaine O'Neal's corpse. No reason for the Wolves to make that move. If they want to dump Beasley that badly, just cut him and save themselves the trouble of having O'Neal around.

[TylerTheDebater]

Lakers turned down a first rounder for Beasley.

Where's BeasleyTheBeast?

Lakers turned down Beasley because it could cost them double on his ROOKIE contract.

Why is the fact I said he's a negative boldable and worth a gif nodding why?

Stop stanning, son.

Beasley is a headcase chucker who's on the verge on mandatory inpatient therapy.

[john2jer]

Lakers turned down a first rounder for Beasley.

Where's BeasleyTheBeast?

Lakers turned down Beasley because it could cost them double on his ROOKIE contract.

Why is the fact I said he's a negative boldable and worth a gif nodding why?

Stop stanning, son.

Beasley is a headcase chucker who's on the verge on mandatory inpatient therapy.

To be clear, Beasley wouldn't cost double as contracts were pro-rated this year, and over half has already been paid since we're more than halfway through the season. Ultimately it would have cost the Lakers around $9mil, which seems silly, but it does make sense since they're not winning a championship this year. Why pay extra unless it got them to the Finals?