BOS - MIN from Trade Board

[Worm Guts]

If Brewer plays well, he'll get playing time. If we end up letting him walk at the end of the year for nothing, I'm Ok with that. That being said, I'm not a huge Brewer guy and I've heard good things about Bradley, but I think if we really liked Bradley we would have drafted him at 16.

[shrink]

He needs minutes for a big year, and I think that he won't get nearly as many this season as we play our other investments.

I don't think his trade value is going to go up, especially as we show more commitment to Webster/Wes Johnson/Beasley. When other teams realize we aren't going to match offers to re-sign him, they will likely just wait until next summer and offer nothing. I think right now we can still get something, and $5 mil in cap space and a 1st round prospect on a rookie deal for four years seems like a decent return to me.

Except that 1st round prospect will run into the same problem as Brewer (playing time), and it will only get worse next year.

Except the 1st round pick has 4 years on a rookie deal to earn the minutes. Brewer may need to find the same number of minutes this year to maintain his trade value, and I don't think he'll get them. Better to have the cheap prospect learning the game from the bench, then forcing Brewer there.

[skorff26]

He needs minutes for a big year, and I think that he won't get nearly as many this season as we play our other investments.

I don't think his trade value is going to go up, especially as we show more commitment to Webster/Wes Johnson/Beasley. When other teams realize we aren't going to match offers to re-sign him, they will likely just wait until next summer and offer nothing. I think right now we can still get something, and $5 mil in cap space and a 1st round prospect on a rookie deal for four years seems like a decent return to me.

Except that 1st round prospect will run into the same problem as Brewer (playing time), and it will only get worse next year.

1)Like shrink pointed out, he has 4 years to earn his minutes.
2)He is a lot cheaper then Brewer and has 4 years on a rookie deal, meaning he has more value then Brewer does right now (same reason Love has so much more value then Jefferson)
3)For this year, PG is likely where we have the least amount of depth, he can play some there (especially if Flynn is hurt for part of the year) and at SG... if Flynn is hurt for the first month or so, Bradley possibly could even play well enough where we could trade him to Indiana or someone for something valuable.
4)I think he may be good enough to make Flynn expendable, next year we could trade Flynn and have a PG rotation of Rubio/Bradley/Ridnour with Bradley and Ridnour both being able to play some at SG (I think Bradley would be a lot more capable to guard opposing SG's then Flynn)...

[MINNY4LYFE]

#1. Brewer isn't very good (along being injury proned, he hasn't really shown anything). Avery Bradley is going to be a sick combo guard for years to come. His offensive prowess is pretty good, but he excels at defending on the perimeter. I'm sure he'll win 2-3 NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards, along with a few championships (Something Brewer will never do).

[Saltine]

If he was that good he would have been picked much earlier...

[shangrila]

Bradley won't ever win a DPOY award. Just won't happen.

[Fire Mchale]

#1. Brewer isn't very good (along being injury proned, he hasn't really shown anything). Avery Bradley is going to be a sick combo guard for years to come. His offensive prowess is pretty good, but he excels at defending on the perimeter. I'm sure he'll win 2-3 NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards, along with a few championships (Something Brewer will never do).

I hate when people sell others short. You failed to mention his scoring titles, MVPs, early HOF entry, ROY award and others I can't even imagine.

Come on, the guy is a tweener guard with some skill. I'm not 100% sold on his game and are we really trying to recreate what we had in Randy Foye? If we're going to go with undersized 2s, I say we target Eric Gordon. I don't see Bradley as a true 1, but if he was willing to focus on that, I might consider it more. In the meantime I would rather keep Corey Brewer and work other angles to move him if the teams feels it needs to do so.