Buyout/Free Agent Thread, 2023-24

[zoyathedestroya]

Knicks are stacked but Im not worried!

Love that Knicks team. Might see them in the ECF.

Philly's done and Milwaukee seems broken.

I’m not counting out bucks as long as Giannis is healthy. He’s as good as advertised and he has dog in him for sure.

I’m not afraid of any team but I’ll keep my eyes on a few! Knicks, Bucks, Pacers and a few in the west.

Any team that comes out of the West will be a load. Nuggets, Clippers, Suns, and Wolves are all tough matchups for us.

[fallguy]

Knicks are stacked but Im not worried!

Love that Knicks team. Might see them in the ECF.

Philly's done and Milwaukee seems broken.

I’m not counting out bucks as long as Giannis is healthy. He’s as good as advertised and he has dog in him for sure.

I’m not afraid of any team but I’ll keep my eyes on a few! Knicks, Bucks, Pacers and a few in the west.

Agree on Giannis, he is a killer. But Middleton is hurt again.

I'm most worried about Knicks/Pacers I think?

[fallguy]

Love that Knicks team. Might see them in the ECF.

Philly's done and Milwaukee seems broken.

I’m not counting out bucks as long as Giannis is healthy. He’s as good as advertised and he has dog in him for sure.

I’m not afraid of any team but I’ll keep my eyes on a few! Knicks, Bucks, Pacers and a few in the west.

Any team that comes out of the West will be a load. Nuggets, Clippers, Suns, and Wolves are all tough matchups for us.

I hope we only have to play one of them.

[Fierce1]

PP might not even get 18 minutes per game in the playoffs.

This is not like the Kemba situation.

Jimmy Butler targeted Kemba and it worked.

But PP will be out there with the opposing team's 2nd unit.

This PP getting targeted is much ado about nothing.

[zoyathedestroya]

I’m not counting out bucks as long as Giannis is healthy. He’s as good as advertised and he has dog in him for sure.

I’m not afraid of any team but I’ll keep my eyes on a few! Knicks, Bucks, Pacers and a few in the west.

Any team that comes out of the West will be a load. Nuggets, Clippers, Suns, and Wolves are all tough matchups for us.

I hope we only have to play one of them.

I'm hoping we end up playing one.

[Hal14]

Glad to lose Banton. He looks like an NBA player but I think he's bound for Europe.

Yeah, he would probably do really well in Europe or the Australia league.

But he'll get at least 1 more chance to prove he's an NBA player. Portland is a lottery team and doesn't have much depth and could use another ball handler - especially for the games Brogdon is inevitably out with injury..

[Dogen]

Knicks are stacked but Im not worried!

Love that Knicks team. Might see them in the ECF.

Philly's done and Milwaukee seems broken.

I’m not counting out bucks as long as Giannis is healthy. He’s as good as advertised and he has dog in him for sure.

I’m not afraid of any team but I’ll keep my eyes on a few! Knicks, Bucks, Pacers and a few in the west.

Haliburton and Maxey have not experienced the Wrath of Springer in Celtic green yet!

[Darth Celtic]

Parl lol, you literally beg to the Celtics to play all of their g league bums.

OMG. He's a Bum, Bum. Not even a G league Bum.
I do Not understand this Trade????

This is embarrassing behavior quite frankly

Dudes dogging in him are looking at ESPN stats page. Haven't seen him play. He is that dude walking around on the court having a hard time standing straight from his huge balls. Kind of young Marcus. Great, not good, great on defense for his size. His offense is inconsistent and you don't want him shooting threes unless he has too. As far as roster. He is way better than banton as a player. Just like Tillman is way better than Stevens.

Both these guys are top 10% in defense. Basketball has two sides. Offense and defensive.

That said, Jayden will get more garbage mins like banton did, while tillman will eat into briseett and horfords mins.

[165bows]

Not worried about the Suns at all. Okc is another matter though I think they are too young/thin up front to hang that deep into the playoffs.

Although I have been wrong before lol.

[Fierce1]

The Knicks may be deep, but only 5 players get to play.

So will the Knicks play in the last 5 minutes of the 4th?

[Dogen]

I’m not counting out bucks as long as Giannis is healthy. He’s as good as advertised and he has dog in him for sure.

I’m not afraid of any team but I’ll keep my eyes on a few! Knicks, Bucks, Pacers and a few in the west.

Any team that comes out of the West will be a load. Nuggets, Clippers, Suns, and Wolves are all tough matchups for us.

I hope we only have to play one of them.

We just need to beat one of them.

[djFan71]

PP might not even get 18 minutes per game in the playoffs.

This is not like the Kemba situation.

Jimmy Butler targeted Kemba and it worked.

But PP will be out there with the opposing team's 2nd unit.

This PP getting targeted is much ado about nothing.

Butler successfully targeted PP enough in his glimmer of ECF minutes last year that Joe had to yank him and not try that again.

EDIT: I do think it's a tad overblown, but it is also real.

[fallguy]

The Knicks may be deep, but only 5 players get to play.

So will the Knicks play in the last 5 minutes of the 4th?

Yes, they will play.

[165bows]

PP might not even get 18 minutes per game in the playoffs.

This is not like the Kemba situation.

Jimmy Butler targeted Kemba and it worked.

But PP will be out there with the opposing team's 2nd unit.

This PP getting targeted is much ado about nothing.

Butler successfully targeted PP enough in his glimmer of ECF minutes last year that Joe had to yank him and not try that again.

EDIT: I do think it's a tad overblown, but it is also real.

Yeah his offense is as much of an issue. Team getting bounced the last two years was more of an offense issue than a defensive one.

[Fierce1]

The Knicks may be deep, but only 5 players get to play.

So will the Knicks play in the last 5 minutes of the 4th?

Yes, they will play.

Brunson
Randle
OG
Hartenstein
DiVincenzo
Bogdanovic
Burks
Hart

Only 5 will play in crunch time.

[Hal14]

Yeah, give me Osman via buyout. We've got an open roster spot. Osman can fill it.

Queta stays on his 2-way. No need to convert him now, with Tillman onboard..he won't come close to that 50 game maximum for a 2-way.

[GoGreen]

Hmm, ok. Not a bad couple pick ups between Springer and X. Look forward to seeing how they can contribute

[Fierce1]

PP might not even get 18 minutes per game in the playoffs.

This is not like the Kemba situation.

Jimmy Butler targeted Kemba and it worked.

But PP will be out there with the opposing team's 2nd unit.

This PP getting targeted is much ado about nothing.

Butler successfully targeted PP enough in his glimmer of ECF minutes last year that Joe had to yank him and not try that again.

EDIT: I do think it's a tad overblown, but it is also real.

Only averaged 6.8 minutes per game against Miami in the playoffs last season.

For sure PP is not playing in the last 5 minutes of the 4th.
So if Miami gets 4 or 6 points off of PP, that's very insignificant.

[Curmudgeon]

Queta stays on his 2-way. No need to convert him now, with Tillman onboard..he won't come close to that 50 game maximum for a 2-way.

But he's ineligible for the playoffs.

[Fierce1]

Hmm, ok. Not a bad couple pick ups between Springer and X. Look forward to seeing how they can contribute

Springer will not contribute.

X will allow the Celts to load manage Al and KP at will.