Free Agent/Trade Thread Offseason 2026, Part 8 (Those beaches will be open!)

[Larry_Russell]

Unless I am mistaken, Celtics solcial Media still has not announced the trade or posted a welcome to Boston PG?

I only checked the Facebook page....but if that is true accross all platforms....


thats gotta mean something right? RIGHT?

[NYCelticsfan136]

Woke up and this is still real. Lesser so about JB being gone but the dogsh*t return. Maybe we valued him too high? But why Philly?

Glad the extension was avoided for the league leader in turnovers but tough to visualize Boston getting the best of head to head matchups with Philly next season. But I know this move was looking out further than this next season, still tough to process though.

PG's on/off has been positive for 16 years straight. JB's, for just 3 of his 10 years. PG likely helps his team more.

Get out of here with that BS! Only thing with philly is health but they should win over 50 games next year.

[winsomme2]

Don’t feel any better having slept on it. Brad is now reliant on Hugo or Baylor turning into Superstar levels or flipping/drafting those picks into studs. He might not even last to see either of those, He could well receive the Nico treatment because on paper this trade truly rivals the Luka one.

This is worse than the Luka trade, no matter how many times you sleep on it.

One of the biggest problems I see is that people are IMO not recognizing how difficult it is to acquire talent in the NBA.

"Freeing up money" can get you a Mitchell Robinson or a Norman Powell but not a legit star player. You have to draft or trade to get star players and we don't have the assets to trade for anybody on that level.

[jordb2k7]

Unless I am mistaken, Celtics solcial Media still has not announced the trade or posted a welcome to Boston PG?

I only checked the Facebook page....but if that is true accross all platforms....


thats gotta mean something right? RIGHT?

It just means it's not official yet. Will probably happen today/tomorrow unless reports come out that it's being expanded.

[NYCelticsfan136]

If JBs value is so low apparently, just keep him FFS and trade him when he is expiring.

They did keep him for 10 years though. I’m upset too, I can see both sides. If he gets hurt or has a bad year they will have to give picks + Brown to unload him. Can you imagine that?

The extension would have been the compelling event after dangling JB for Giannis. There was no winning that, either we gave it to him at our own peril or decided not to and have a streaming malcontent.

This team is still going to be damn good

You really think the Celtics got better with a guy that misses games and us 36 years old?

[GreenBlooded]

Yes Brad clearly panicked and has no idea what he is doing and took the worst offer on the table. And now he is done making moves to the roster on the first day of free agency too!

Did I do it right, chat?

All while making our division rival, who just knocked is out of the playoffs, better.

There is no world where this move made any basketball sense.

Maybe jaylen pulled an Ime.

[Wes-J]

I think you're not well informed about the FRPs the Cs got.

The 2028 1st round pick is a potential lottery pick because the Clips do not have Kawhi anymore.
Clips will be a lottery team for a while.

By 2031, Embiid will most likely be out of the league.
That pick is also unprotected, so there's a chance that's also a lottery pick.
JB will be 34 going 35 by then.

So those 2 FRPs are no way close to 2nd round picks.

I think you're overly optimistic. This could of waited.

If we'd waited, the return would've diminished even more.
We can't get anything for Brown now after his contract is smaller and he's just come off his best season ever. What do you think we'd get when his contract is $70m+ per year?
And that Clippers pick is a potential banger of a pick. Without Kawai, they are going to stink.

We now have Paul George as an expiring after this year. Hell, if PG opts out of his final year player option (unlikely because he's on something like $54 million) then we'd have $54m in cap room a year earlier to build around JT.

To clarify, to wait later into this off-season. We would have nothing to lose it can't be worse than our current return. If nothing happens then he stays and mend fences, business is business he'll have to get over it.

[b3n]

The more I process the JB trade I can't help but feel some spite with this trade. Jaylen, if moved reportedly wanted his own team. Now he's going from a 1A/1B situation in Boston, to a what, the 3rd option, maybe a 3A/B situation with Edgecomb? You want to humble a guy? Trade him days after Kawhi (older, long standing injury history, & under investigation for a suspension) gets a relative haul, to a rival team we (he) just gave up a 3-1 series lead to in the playoffs & lost to embarrassingly, for a relic that just outplayed him in the series one-on-one, for a far lesser trade package than Kawhi, one that the fans and media will shred & will likely keep his performance/legacy in the limelight (akin to the Luka trade situation), to a city with a reputation for tough fans, ass weather like Boston, all right after he publicly criticized the alpha player on that team for flopping. Like, good luck buddy. I get the metrics stuff, and if I squint, I can see the PG fit on paper, but it feels spiteful.

[GreenBlooded]

They did keep him for 10 years though. I’m upset too, I can see both sides. If he gets hurt or has a bad year they will have to give picks + Brown to unload him. Can you imagine that?

The extension would have been the compelling event after dangling JB for Giannis. There was no winning that, either we gave it to him at our own peril or decided not to and have a streaming malcontent.

This team is still going to be damn good

You really think the Celtics got better with a guy that misses games and us 36 years old?

Maybe the Celtics have a good steroid guy they are counting on

[tfribs45]

Yes Brad clearly panicked and has no idea what he is doing and took the worst offer on the table. And now he is done making moves to the roster on the first day of free agency too!

Did I do it right, chat?

All while making our division rival, who just knocked is out of the playoffs, better.

There is no world where this move made any basketball sense.

Maybe jaylen pulled an Ime.

meanwhile no response yet from JT or any of the players, what a JOKE of a trade! Very similar to Luka deal, unbelievably bad!

[itrsteve]

They did keep him for 10 years though. I’m upset too, I can see both sides. If he gets hurt or has a bad year they will have to give picks + Brown to unload him. Can you imagine that?

The extension would have been the compelling event after dangling JB for Giannis. There was no winning that, either we gave it to him at our own peril or decided not to and have a streaming malcontent.

This team is still going to be damn good

You really think the Celtics got better with a guy that misses games and us 36 years old?

Do I think PG is better than JB? Absolutely not.

I’m happy to be out of that contract and pending extension. We have 10 years of off-court numbers, not a small sample.

This team is going to be damn good with or without him. The return sucked, that’s all.

[tfribs45]

That’s the only legitimate play they can make. They’ll probably trade all of those picks and get a star. Maybe they saw what Miami gave up to Milwaukee and said to themselves this is the way to get stars now? Im just speculating what possibly happened. But like what was the rush if this was the best you could get?

I would keep that clippers pick at all costs.

Joker or Antman on the table and that pick is your hook.

that's a pipedream, wouldn't the offer have been stronger with JB involved instead of PG.

[gammajamma]

I would keep that clippers pick at all costs.

Joker or Antman on the table and that pick is your hook.

that's a pipedream, wouldn't the offer have been stronger with JB involved instead of PG.

Depends if they wanted to pay jb the extension he’s looking for or if they value a $54 million expiring next off-season

[GreenBlooded]

Also, this idea that George's 50m+ contact will be easy to move next summer is cope.

[165bows]

Joker or Antman on the table and that pick is your hook.

that's a pipedream, wouldn't the offer have been stronger with JB involved instead of PG.

Depends if they wanted to pay jb the extension he’s looking for or if they value a $54 million expiring next off-season

Any word on if Philly extends him yet or no?

[chrisab123]

I would keep that clippers pick at all costs.

Joker or Antman on the table and that pick is your hook.

that's a pipedream, wouldn't the offer have been stronger with JB involved instead of PG.

As we’ve seen with Giannis probably not. Expiring contract and picks are probably was worth more

[chrisab123]

Also, this idea that George's 50m+ contact will be easy to move next summer is cope.

If we didn’t just see this exact scenario play out with Miami and Milwaukee you’d be correct. Picks and expirings over Brown’s contract is what people preferred.

[165bows]

Read on Twitter

Idk if this is true or bs but it feels like something in this direction

[big-shot-ROB]

They could of waited there was no rush to do it now for a nothing return. We essentially received 4 second round picks. Those FRP will be in the range of where there's very little separation late first and early to mid second round.

I think you're not well informed about the FRPs the Cs got.

The 2028 1st round pick is a potential lottery pick because the Clips do not have Kawhi anymore.
Clips will be a lottery team for a while.

By 2031, Embiid will most likely be out of the league.
That pick is also unprotected, so there's a chance that's also a lottery pick.
JB will be 34 going 35 by then.

So those 2 FRPs are no way close to 2nd round picks.

Who cares where the 31 pick falls? Tatum will be 33, and you'll have gone over 5 years of his prime. Also, front offices do not value draft picks that much at all. A lottery pick IS NOT VALUABLE. That's why teams trade them left and right.

You need a top-20 player from a **** team be available for it to be worth it. The last one was probably A. Davis? How many other superstar trades have actually brought a ring? Because the whole superteam thing has been a disaster.

You know what was not a disaster? Having two top-25 wings. That's been a proven formula for 10 **** years at playoff runs.

[GreenBlooded]

Also, this idea that George's 50m+ contact will be easy to move next summer is cope.

If we didn’t just see this exact scenario play out with Miami and Milwaukee you’d be correct. Picks and expirings over Brown’s contract is what people preferred.

Oh, I get it but In a very limited scenario. You need another max player leaving a team who wants to blow it up and rebuild with picks. Of course that's possible but the stars will have to align

Two smaller bad contacts would be more flexible. With George we are more pigeon holed into one type of deal. And those deals don't always materialize.

I still predict George outlasts Brad and Joe in Boston.