PG Part II: The Summer of George

[165bows]

Even Curious George is much better than George of the Jungle. What's the jungle got to do with this?

Let's break it down Sports Science style.

George, George, George (3 times = part three) of the Jungle (remember when Pierce/Toine used to call the FleetCenter the Jungle?) Watch out for that Three (part three again, plus PG shoots threes).

Try dunking that in a suit of armor.

Lol I actually had thought of Curious George too but felt maybe that was a potential offensive connection. How many threads do we get to on this? I'm guessing 7...better load up on names.

Slart is indeed the thread title master. We can switch gears...

George Thread 3: Pritchard asks for A-Paul-ing trade haul for George. Too much for George leaves Ainge's trade asset cupboard Paul-try, only slim pick-ings left.

[sprash9802]

Pritch the prick can shove with a pick

[Slartibartfast]

So what's the new thread did we decide on George of the jungle or madness of George?

Summertime, presented by Paul George Gershwin from Paul Georgey & Bess.

[CollegeToPros]

Pritch can leverage against Ainge since he can just tell him that he'll send PG-13 to LAL early and make the LAL pick worse

This too. Anybody who says Pacers have no leverage are fooling themselves. There are other teams which have made offers for George. Pick like MEM19 or LAC19 isn't really an asset which will sway a trade in your favor. You better put some quality on the table instead of quantity.

LAL18 is the most i would give from our prem assets. Otherwise, move along. I doubt Ainge will up his offer so i don't think George will be a Celtic.

That's cool. Let him enjoy building his franchise around Julius Randle. It's really working for the lakers.

I agree, LAL 18 is the best asset i offer if I have too. Otherwise this deal is BS.

[FlatearthZorro]

I call bs. All of a sudden we go from “Indy feels Boston has made the best offer” and “there are multiple contingencies set up to make the Hayward George thing work and now we’re balking at the price and Pritchard’s asking too much? I don’t buy it. The deal is done imo and rests on signing Hayward

I don't think anyone really knows at this point. Who knows maybe Ainge gets pissed and says I'm done with this. Teams keep trying to screw the celtics. Most GMs are jealous of Ainge.

Pretty much this. Teams are jealous and are trying to rob us. CP3 is a better player than George when healthy and go traded for a lot less... This is a travesty.

[Tai]

I didn't really understand why people talk about the LA/SAC pick as a throw in since that pick may very well be better than the Brooklyn pick. I wouldn't give it up for George. Sign Hayward and go all in for up to two high picks in the 2018 draft.

The Brooklyn pick's unprotected; if you think the Lakers will be worse than the Nets that's one thing, debatable but one thing, but unprotected > protected, "warts" and all.....

The way the Lakers pick is protected almost guarantees it will be high lottery. It won't be #1, which is where the Brooklyn pick is better, but all of the conditions put on it gives it a very high probability of being a 2-5 pick in 2018 or 2019. Ainge could have simply gotten the Lakers unprotected pick, but put these conditions on it because he thought it was advantageous for the Celtics.

The future first-round pick that Boston will receive will be the Los Angeles Lakers’ first-round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, provided that such pick is No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, or No. 5 in the 2018 NBA Draft. If the Lakers’ 2018 first-round pick is No. 1 or is No. 6 or later, the Sixers will instead convey to the Celtics the rights to the more favorable of the Sixers’ own 2019 first-round pick or the Sacramento Kings’ 2019 first-round pick, provided that the more favorable pick is not the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. If the more favorable of the Sixers’ and Kings’ 2019 first-round picks is the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, the Sixers will instead convey the rights to the less favorable of those two picks.

Well, I know how the Lakers/Kings pick works. I'm assuming that you think the Nets pick won't be #1, cause of course you realize we COULD have the top 2 picks of next year's draft; wipe your drool up guys.

And either way, considering the LAL/SAC pick was rumored by Adam Kaufman, that should be plenty then on top of Bradley/Crowder/etc. So I'm not sure how that suddenly turned into "no we want the Nets pick too" from the Pacers. Again, if they're that dumb, they're just that dumb.

[CeltsfanSinceBirth]

Wall of shame, baby!!

[Afam]

Celtics take it or leave it offer to the Pacers should be.

Avery Bradley
Jae Crowder
Lakers Pick
Memphis Pick

Teams should stop thinking because the Celtics has lots of assets doesn't mean they can screw over the Celtics. That's not going to happen.

[meatball sub]

Read on Twitter

This Mark Murphy guy is a **** noob.

[LarryBirdsFingr]

So what's the new thread did we decide on George of the jungle or madness of George?

Summertime, presented by Paul George Gershwin from Paul Georgey & Bess.

Hopefully people migrate quicker this time

[leper-con]

George madness
Georgie porgie
A farewell to George
welcome George
better late than George
better green than Purple and gold.

[Smog]

The Pacers absolutely should hold the Celtics up for as many assets as possible. If the Celtics get Hayward and a re-signed George, that's a contending team. What is that worth? Pritchard knows it's worth a lot. So he absolutely ought to see if Ainge will blink. He may not, in which case we'll keep going down this road, probably until we only have enough assets left to make a fair deal.

[OFWGKTA]

I call bs. All of a sudden we go from “Indy feels Boston has made the best offer” and “there are multiple contingencies set up to make the Hayward George thing work and now we’re balking at the price and Pritchard’s asking too much? I don’t buy it. The deal is done imo and rests on signing Hayward

I don't think anyone really knows at this point. Who knows maybe Ainge gets pissed and says I'm done with this. Teams keep trying to screw the celtics. Most GMs are jealous of Ainge.

Pretty much this. Teams are jealous and are trying to rob us. CP3 is a better player than George when healthy and go traded for a lot less... This is a travesty.

CP3 doesn't count, that was basically a S&T

[SparringPartner]

They don't want to be in the long line of Ainge casualties. A team would rather take a worse offer than make a deal with Ainge.

It is INSANE, but I think the above is DEAD on! Ainge offers a better deal than anyone else can offer, but Pritchard goes with a lesser deal because of the "AINGE" factor? Craziness...

These type of GM's should be fired on the spot for their selfishness and not doing what is best for their TEAM.

[OFWGKTA]

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[sam_I_am]

Wonder if the Lakers are actually prepared to give up Ingram or Lonzo. Keep Tatum, Brown, IT, SAC-LA, Brooklyn and find a way to make it happen. Trade for Davis next year.

IT/Hayward/Brown/George/Davis

Many titles. Fin.

I think IT/Horford and both 2018 picks at trade deadline for Davis would give NO a decent team for now and the future. As it stands they are going nowhere, but of course they would shoot that down. It would suck to lose IT, but Davis would be worth it.

[OFWGKTA]

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[Tai]

I didn't really understand why people talk about the LA/SAC pick as a throw in since that pick may very well be better than the Brooklyn pick. I wouldn't give it up for George. Sign Hayward and go all in for up to two high picks in the 2018 draft.

The Brooklyn pick's unprotected; if you think the Lakers will be worse than the Nets that's one thing, debatable but one thing, but unprotected > protected, "warts" and all.....

Couldn't we give them the worse of the two picks?

So build in a contingency depending on where the picks actually end up? Knowing Danny he's probably asked, but definitely a great idea.

[leper-con]

"my precious, my precious...George"

"Ainge and his assets "

[leper-con]

"Insane in the George membrane"