Jackie Mac on Marcus Smart's RFA--"He's going for the money"

[Fidel Sarcasmo]

So happy is the agent who told Nerlens Noel to turn down that 70 million dollar deal from Dallas. Now Noel’s getting a minimum deal somewhere in Siberia. He’ll never sniff that again. And Marcus put his trust in Happy? Marcus deserves everything that’s coming to him at this point, which is the QO and Unrestricted Free Agency in 19’ where he’ll be laughed at asking for 12-15 million per year by every team in the market for a backup point guard. Whodaphux gonna pay a backup pg 12 per year? He’s drunk. 8 per n I’m being super freaking generous.

[Celtics_History_Lesson]

This Smart thing is still going?


Hard to see how the Nets make a deal.

Memphis, you can find a salary or salaries to send to Boston, a Brooklyn sign-and-trade is awkward to configure.


If Boston got Lin, it would mean the championship. Smart would get his money.


The Nets are still paying Deron Williams? A bad franchise, you do that, you might give a team four first round picks to take Gerald Wallace.


If the rules mean a waiting time to do it, Joe Harris and his money would not be bad to get back for Smart. Him and Lin, only real ideas.

Smart plus Morris plus Nader for D Carroll. A crazy idea that does have some good points.

[LobCityRondo2KG]

Bruh has no clue what RFA is... His idiot agent also has no clue.. all this media hooplah is getting ridiculous.. he was at jaylens event so I'm sure things aren't too bad but i feel like this needs to get resolved sooner than later

[Fidel Sarcasmo]

This Smart thing is still going?


Hard to see how the Nets make a deal.

Memphis, you can find a salary or salaries to send to Boston, a Brooklyn sign-and-trade is awkward to configure.


If Boston got Lin, it would mean the championship. Smart would get his money.


The Nets are still paying Deron Williams? A bad franchise, you do that, you might give a team four first round picks to take Gerald Wallace.


If the rules mean a waiting time to do it, Joe Harris and his money would not be bad to get back for Smart. Him and Lin, only real ideas.

Smart plus Morris plus Nader for D Carroll. A crazy idea that does have some good points.

Love Lin. Demario Carroll sucks so bad and his hair cut is absolutely one of the top 2-3 worst in the nba. Lin’s hair used to be a disaster too but it’s ok now

[mbsnmisc]

AD.

The whole leverage point was his contract expiring in two years. They may have felt compelled to trade him if next summer if they thought he was leaving in 2020. Unless he is willing to walk from a supermax that they would love to give him and which he is now eligible for, Pels have control of him for the next seven years.

He may spring loose, but it is highly unlikely.

I’ve been saying it for awhile now.. If the Pels suck this year, they will look to move him before he can opt out. Not saying he’ll be a Celtic at all.. Just saying he’ll be available. He’s been talking about his frustration trying to win for awhile now.

I don’t see him being so frustrated next summer that he turns down a supermax.

That is the keyword. With the raising cap the supermax approaches a quarter of a billion dollars. That is serious **** money. I don't know if any player walks away from that.

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[PierceFan4ever]

Danny is just doing his job. I want Smart back on the Celtics badly but Ainge is also looking down the line and the million scenarios he has to deal with whether it’s Kyrie being a free agent, Brown and Tatum’s payday, Rozier next summer, etc. Danny’s got his hands full when processing what kind of contracts to give out and we all know this Celtics team is stacked so I’m sure he’s in no rush right now to give Smart a nice contract deal if there isn’t much interest generating from other teams on Smart. Obviously for Smart this may be annoying for him to deal with. I just hope it doesn’t get ugly but I can where both sides are coming from.

[SMTBSI]

I just heard a rumor from a credible source that I'm going to bed.

[VeryMuchWoke]

So happy is the agent who told Nerlens Noel to turn down that 70 million dollar deal from Dallas. Now Noel’s getting a minimum deal somewhere in Siberia. He’ll never sniff that again. And Marcus put his trust in Happy? Marcus deserves everything that’s coming to him at this point, which is the QO and Unrestricted Free Agency in 19’ where he’ll be laughed at asking for 12-15 million per year by every team in the market for a backup point guard. Whodaphux gonna pay a backup pg 12 per year? He’s drunk. 8 per n I’m being super freaking generous.

No, he isn't. Happy got Noel the extension and advised him to take it. Noel wasn't happy with the offer and left happy for Rich Paul. I believe Happy is overcompensating for his miscalculation in handling Noel (and giving him an honest assessment of what his services are worth) by going along with Smarts high opinion of himself.

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/8/26/16209330/nerlens-noel-agent-happy-walters-mark-cuban-mavericks-free-agency

[VeryMuchWoke]

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"Going nowhere fast" means Ainge isn't capitulating anytime soon. One line in the article says that the C's don't want to pay Smart so much that it might prevent them from reigning Jaylen, Tatum or Rozier. It almost sounds like the C's prefer Rozier, but I'd guess they just want to retain the option of keeping either Rozier or Smart and signing Smart to an untradable contract would cost them that flexibility.

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"Going nowhere fast" means Ainge isn't capitulating anytime soon. One line in the article says that the C's don't want to pay Smart so much that it might perfect them from reigning Jaylen, Tatum or Rozier. It almost sounds like the C's prefer Rozier, but I'd guess they just want to retain the option of keeping either Rozier or Smart and signing Smart to an untradable contract would cost them that flexibility.

They've always preferred Rozier.

[Big Joke Line]

What are his main reasons, to your knowledge?

It doesn’t seem that Mr. Butler is a very likable fellow. Had problems with his teammates in Chicago although Rondo is rather prickly himself and now again with these latest allegations in Minnesota. Makes sense that Brad would want nothing to do with him

Even more specifically he seems to be a jerk to his younger teammates that was the issue Rondo got into him about. They would lose games and Butler and Wade would blame the younger guys on the team. Rondo was like KG and Pierce never blamed me or Perk when we lost a game (maybe Big Baby).

The thing is that Butler might be right, that KAT isn't playing hard enough on the defensive end or Wiggins isn't being aggressive enough or whatever but sometimes it can't come from you, lets be honest does anyone think Thibs has a hard time getting into guys? Butler would probably be good on a veteran team to keep guys motivated but with young guys you can start to wear them down.

Still somewhat of a newbie so might be widely known by the board but who are you if you can share? Obviously played with RR at some point by this statement. I'd love to know more. I actually loved RR despite all the grief. I'm almost sure not Sullinger by your join date, etc.

[Big Joke Line]

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Too lazy to check if anyone posted this but this is a pretty glaring example of how valuable he is to the team and his teammates when he is on the floor. Speaks volumes about his importance.

It really doesn't. So both Smart and Irving missed the last 15 games of the year and we went 9-6 because we kind of gave up on the #1 seed. Did we miss Smart or Irving or was it the fact that we were playing our 15,16,17th guys. Smart is a good player of course we are better with him than without but we are better with all of our good players than we are without.

We were better with Kelly Olynyk too and we survived.

With you until the end.

(Edit to clarify - I was with you until the end of the post)

[Big Joke Line]

KG and Pierce never blamed me or Perk when we lost a game

sully is Sully confirmed.

Just quoted for a clarification.

[Big Joke Line]

This Smart thing is still going?


Hard to see how the Nets make a deal.

Memphis, you can find a salary or salaries to send to Boston, a Brooklyn sign-and-trade is awkward to configure.


If Boston got Lin, it would mean the championship. Smart would get his money.


The Nets are still paying Deron Williams? A bad franchise, you do that, you might give a team four first round picks to take Gerald Wallace.


If the rules mean a waiting time to do it, Joe Harris and his money would not be bad to get back for Smart. Him and Lin, only real ideas.

Smart plus Morris plus Nader for D Carroll. A crazy idea that does have some good points.

Enjoy reading your stuff. Toronto posts are epic. But add a super fragile PG to a fraigle PC lineup? I don't know.

[djFan71]

I’ve been saying it for awhile now.. If the Pels suck this year, they will look to move him before he can opt out. Not saying he’ll be a Celtic at all.. Just saying he’ll be available. He’s been talking about his frustration trying to win for awhile now.

I don’t see him being so frustrated next summer that he turns down a supermax.

That is the keyword. With the raising cap the supermax approaches a quarter of a billion dollars. That is serious **** money. I don't know if any player walks away from that.

Yep. You can always demand a trade in a few more years when you're on the supermax.

[robdog_5]

I want Smart back. I don't want to give him more than 12 mil a year and I think ther may be even a slight overpay. My thing is if we sign Smart we should deal Morris. Only reason being we can't have 2 low efficient chuckers. Both guys bring a lot of positives but both shoot too much at a low percentage. Adding Hayward and a step up from Tatum next year means we need to absorb some mins and touches. IMO Morris isn't going to pass the ball and will get his shots so it would be best to deal him out. I would maybe look at moving him to a western conf playoff contender.

[Big Joke Line]

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"Going nowhere fast" means Ainge isn't capitulating anytime soon. One line in the article says that the C's don't want to pay Smart so much that it might perfect them from reigning Jaylen, Tatum or Rozier. It almost sounds like the C's prefer Rozier, but I'd guess they just want to retain the option of keeping either Rozier or Smart and signing Smart to an untradable contract would cost them that flexibility.

Of course they prefer Rozier at a similar contract (or more). I keep saying I'll stop beating this dead horse but the bat keeps coming out. Probably because I feel strongly about this.

[Big Joke Line]

I want Smart back. I don't want to give him more than 12 mil a year and I think ther may be even a slight overpay. My thing is if we sign Smart we should deal Morris. Only reason being we can't have 2 low efficient chuckers. Both guys bring a lot of positives but both shoot too much at a low percentage. Adding Hayward and a step up from Tatum next year means we need to absorb some mins and touches. IMO Morris isn't going to pass the ball and will get his shots so it would be best to deal him out. I would maybe look at moving him to a western conf playoff contender.

I want to upgrade both Morris and Smart but people are throwing around 4/$48 for Smart Morris is back on like 1/$7 I believe so it's not a relevant comparison.

[Slax]

This Smart thing is still going?


Hard to see how the Nets make a deal.

Memphis, you can find a salary or salaries to send to Boston, a Brooklyn sign-and-trade is awkward to configure.


If Boston got Lin, it would mean the championship. Smart would get his money.


The Nets are still paying Deron Williams? A bad franchise, you do that, you might give a team four first round picks to take Gerald Wallace.


If the rules mean a waiting time to do it, Joe Harris and his money would not be bad to get back for Smart. Him and Lin, only real ideas.

Smart plus Morris plus Nader for D Carroll. A crazy idea that does have some good points.

Love Lin. Demario Carroll sucks so bad and his hair cut is absolutely one of the top 2-3 worst in the nba. Lin’s hair used to be a disaster too but it’s ok now

I crossed paths with Lin a couple times in college. Really nice and humble dude. In the unlikely chance he ever ends up a Celtic, I would love to cheer him on.