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Taget wrote:leper-con wrote:itrsteve wrote:?s=20
looks like we traded the injury bug with him.
in all honesty, I wish the guy the best, and miss his game facilitation skills already.
He should be fine. I heard he hired Pervis Ellison as a conditioning coach.
playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
Yup. His contract was very reasonable too. I thought the guy was going to get $16-18 million/year. Seeing him sign for $41 million over 3 years was a gut-punch.
ConstableGeneva wrote:CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
Yup. His contract was very reasonable too. I thought the guy was going to get $16-18 million/year. Seeing him sign for $41 million over 3 years was a gut-punch.
We only had the full MLE which is limited to 2 years (what Thompson got). TPE came in way too late. HOU snatched him up by then.
CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
Yup. His contract was very reasonable too. I thought the guy was going to get $16-18 million/year. Seeing him sign for $41 million over 3 years was a gut-punch.
CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:I hate to say it, but the bubble was so much more entertaining with virtual fans. Watching games with empty seats makes it feel I’m watching a rec league
playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
Manocad wrote:I have an engineering degree, an exceptionally high IQ, and can point to the exact location/area of any country on an unlabeled globe.
ConstableGeneva wrote:CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:playa-hater wrote:Just preseason, but Christian Wood has 27 and 10 in 24 min.. Why was it we didn't go after him??
Yup. His contract was very reasonable too. I thought the guy was going to get $16-18 million/year. Seeing him sign for $41 million over 3 years was a gut-punch.
We only had the full MLE which is limited to 2 years (what Thompson got). TPE came in way too late. HOU snatched him up by then.
playa-hater wrote:ConstableGeneva wrote:CeltsfanSinceBirth wrote:
Yup. His contract was very reasonable too. I thought the guy was going to get $16-18 million/year. Seeing him sign for $41 million over 3 years was a gut-punch.
We only had the full MLE which is limited to 2 years (what Thompson got). TPE came in way too late. HOU snatched him up by then.
So in other words I won't be able to blame Danny ainge on this one..
Captain_Caveman wrote:https://www.tmz.com/2020/12/14/jerry-west-kawhi-leonard-los-angeles-clippers-lawsuit-2-5-million-free-agency/
A few thoughts on this:
We know for a fact that basically every elite NBA prospect in the last 40 years has gotten paid under the table to choose which college to play at. Even for prep academies. Whether this case has merit or not, or is provable or not, the idea that this practice ends at the pro level is almost certainly ludicrous, especially in light of the restrictions of the salary cap. We know for a fact that literally everything this guy is alleging about West is the norm for the college recruiting of top prospects, and has been for some time.
While I'd bet that it is fairly common practice throughout pro sports in general, this is orders of magnitude worse than anything the Astros did in terms of cheating, which in itself was orders of magnitude worse than anything the Patriots did, which was itself orders of magnitude worse than tampering with soon-to-be free agents or other things that are deemed to adversely impact the notion of fair competition. All of which is also likely fairly common practice within pro sports.
Also kinda makes you wonder about Durant taking an 8-figure number lower than his max to play for the Warriors for a few years, because of the unique "investment opportunities" in Silicon Valley. A decision he came to after talking with Jerry West, who seems to have a pretty unique ability to get superstar players to sign with the teams he is representing.
Oh well, there goes that pipedream. Jammer wrote:Rudy Gobert just signed a 205 Million extension with Utah.