Trade Thread #7: The Tide is Turning, but still Myles to go

[illmatic24]

Miles Bridges would be a great get in a sign and trade but I can’t see that happening.

[Celtic Esquire]

Wow Danny. Should have pulled trigger. He wanted Indy.

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IND wasn’t going to $120M.

[Patsfan1081]

Thank goodness we didn't get Turner. He's ovrpaid and would not have moved the needle at all.

I find that hard to believe. At the very least he’s a big upgrade to anything we have on the bench, and the biggest thing, he’s salary that you now do not have.

[themoneyteam2]

Wow! $120M to go play in Charlotte for a bum team. Didn’t see that coming and don’t understand why they’d do it. Good for him though to get paid.

Most likely because Pacers were dead due to Ainge pulling Ainge ****

Or Pacers were dead because they didn’t want to match a crazy 4/120 offer.

I feel like I am in a bizzaro world! I wanted Turner pretty badly, but neither the Pacers nor the Celtics wanted anything to do with matching that offer. I’m sure the Pacers and Celtics were actually the top 2 places he wanted to be, and he called their bluff on money, and neither moved an inch.

I'm losing brain cells by the minute reading this thread lol. People are mad at Ainge that Hayward decided to go with the biggest offer instead of going to his hometown team. The sign and trade to Indy only worked if both Indy and Gordon were sold on it happening.

It's actually pretty simple. Not hard at all to understand quite frankly.

[ConstableGeneva]

Ooof. Contract probably starts ~$27M. So, even if you do Zeller, the TPE is ~$12M. Not super inspiring.

They could do flat 30M per year.

Yeah, or descending even and he doesn't take much of a hit at all. Start at $32M and we get about $17M tpe.
I don't see anyone else that can make up $10M difference they'd be willing to send us.

That's enough to sign Bogdanovic. But I don't think we'd want to get into tax for that roster.

[SparringPartner]

We literally have no **** way of improving this team with the cap gone for YEARS.

Brown trade is only a matter of time if they intend filling out this roster some time before 2025

This, with Jaylen/Jayson making big money now, it’s going to be tough making significant moves going forward. In hindsight, Ainge really missed the mark the last three years with today’s news.

[Higgs Boston]

hornets get hayward using a ST? and in that case what we get?

[gizardoe]

I think if the celts want to repair their rep might need to walk away from Ainge.

[flintsky21]

I guess the mystery that will probably never be answered is when exactly Charlotte made that offer. If it was a last minute, out of nowhere offer then it's still on Ainge for screwing up the Indy deal that could've been done yesterday.

[watsonthedragon]

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Pretty simple to understand but half the board is in shambles just like they were last year with Horford going to Philly.

Rinse and Repeat. When will you clowns learn?

When our clown gm stops making the same mistakes.

You give hayward his 120 mil, come July it's already down to 90 and 3 years which in this nba is nothing

Horrible. Disgusting. Undefendable.

Dude you're **** INSANE if you think we should have given Hayward that contract. I guess I need to put you on my list of posters to never take seriously.

[DarkAzcura]

Why is everyone assuming it was Ainge that was holding up the deal with the Pacers.

How do we know that Charlotte didn’t present that ridiculous offer to Hayward and his agent last night?

Maybe it was Hayward that was holding up this deal because his first choice was Indy. And the Charlotte offer was too good to pass up and he needed time to decide with his family. Indy can wait for Gordon and Robyn for a few more years. He can retire with more money.

Come on dude.

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I mean, he’s right though. That’s actually probably exactly what happened. Gordon probably gave both the Pacers and Celtics a day to see if they would match that ridiculous offer, and neither budged.

[Dogen]

honestly was not stoked about turned anyways. i'd rather have the cap flexibility.

Me too. Can we get Ibaka and Baynes?

[djFan71]

I guess Semi gets to stay now.

[UnFadeable21]

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Should of took the Turner and McDermitt deal

Turner is a shot blocker and can make shots. Doug is solid role player

It wasn't up to Boston it was up to Hayward he took the 30 mil like he should.

The reporters said Ainge wouldn’t budge that’s why Hayward went and found his own deal.

100 million Playoff team vs 120 million rebuild

[sprash9802]

The Cs should NEVER give Gordon that money, but... there is NO way to improve this team, without trading one of the remaining core pieces. Whiffing in the draft year after year, AND losing players for nothing is not something a franchise can recover from easily. For all those defending Ainge, how do we get better, if(when) we lose Gordon for nothing AND all of the better FAs are already gone? You don't have any assets that you can give up, and no one who wants to sign with you.

[Jaqua92]

We don’t know what went on behind the scenes. That’s why I’m not saying fire Ainge.

Please respect the right of people to express their frustration. This is their time to shine. When the the team finishes rounding up the roster, they'll stop posting.

How belittling. We are not worthy.

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[Darth Celtic]

What about unloading hayward at the all star break? Danny knew he wasn't going to pay him and he knew hayward was gonna opt out because he just learned his lesson last year with horford right?

Not paying that IS NOT THE SAME as holding him accountable for a horrible mismanaged situation.

Danny's legacy is secured.

And he got no kemba to grab this off-season for y'all to latch onto as him saving a situation either.

For what another 1st round draft pick? They were trying to win a championship who wanted Gordon heading into a 34 mil player option?

Unless you're willing to debate this from the perspective that danny **** this up horribly by losing a max contract cap hold for nothing then there's no point in doing this.

We can't have a fourth max. Never could. Only way Hayward or anyone else stayed was huge discount to 20m max next year. We trade Hayward for a 4year near max deal we ****. What teams have four max pay slots?

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[greenroom31]

Perfect place for Gordon to go play other than the fact that his family is there. No one cares about pro basketball there and he will be left alone. He can pick up his paycheck and no one will care if he performs or if the team wins. Seems like the type of guy he is based on what I’ve witnessed the last few years.

[ConstableGeneva]

Everybody now....

[SparringPartner]

Anyone ripping on Ainge is a fool. If anything this week he tried everything he could to not let it get to this point.

You don't honestly believe that do you?

I do. You guys realize if GMs were fired for not doing imaginary trades sceemed up on message boards we'd be fireing Ainge every year right? I mean, some of you have literally called for him to be fired every year. "OMG he traded Antoine Walker?!?!?!? I'll drive him to the airport!!!!" It's every single offseason. You'll get that right?

Imaginary trades, sure, but losing assets for nothing is real brah