I'm fine with Luka there. Oden was probably first on 29 teams' draft boards, but the same can't be said of Ayton vs. Doncic. We know Phoenix took Ayton first, but I don't think that reflects any consensus. Most draft boards I remember had Doncic first (although there's a bit of a selection bias with which boards I'm reading).
Who’s this from?
Saw the Knicks rumor on the SportsCenter ticker and Celtics interest in Garland is from Jonathan Givony.
Well one thing's for sure. Not a single one of them can score WITHOUT the ball!
Depends on price but I don’t think he is expected to slip past 6-7. If 14/20 gets the job done, sure.
Well there is a decent contigent that thinks "just signing Rozier" is a bad move for he is not that good
Thanks. Taking the 4th player in a 3 player draft with the 3rd pick would be extremely on brand for the Knicks. Pelicans would be pretty happy about that.
That’s fair but he’s proven himself to be a starting calibre PG but he may not want to be back and our rumored interest in Garland could be an indication that the team is looking at all PG options. Ainge could go in a million different directions so will be interesting to see what we ultimately end up with.
I don't know about this. He has a sample of 30 games started over 2 years. I have seen enough of him in no starter minutes to question how much we should weigh those 1000 minutes played as a starter
Yeah - Rozier would be in strong contention to be the worst starting PG in the league. Really can't support bringing him back, basically at any price.
Jimmy Dolan was asked about it and he responded, “We might be trading for Chris Paul and Barrett is way too much to give up for him.”
I would say he’s a bottom tier starter and would take him at that salary range. We’ll see what the market bears out.
I would trade Jaylen Brown, Rozier, 14, 20 and possibly 22 to move up to 2. PG of the future to go with Tatum and Hayward and build from there.
Jaylen Brown, three first-round picks, and your likely starting point guard for a lottery ticket is how I view it. Jaylen was #3 overall, and has developed nicely. Why cash him in, with a bunch of other assets, for a #2 with no such track record?
I like Morant, but I’m not seeing a top ten player there. And to get him they’d need to jumpstart Memphis’ rebuild thus depreciating the value of a future draft pick. I just don’t think it’s worth converting the future Memphis pick into a mid first rounder just to say that they have a future goodish PG.
For starters, I'm way lower on Brown than most people here seem to be. He's on the low side of what you should get from a #3 pick, IMHO.
Kawhi, Giannis, Jokic, Jimmy Butler... many "middling picks" become unexpected franchise pillars. I'll take my chances with three bites at the apple. Obviously, there's no consensus, that's what makes it fun. I do trust Ainge to make some interesting choices.
Really tough to fault the C’s on that 3rd pick in a one player draft. I mean what realistic option at #3 in that draft has been considerably better than Brown?
I’ve been one of the Brown skeptics here, but he’s still a useful player that’s getting better. If Morant were a franchise player I’d think differently. But I’m just not seeing it.
I’m all for finding guards with complete games.
There's huge red flags there, and I agree he isn't really an Ainge-type pick but I also hope he's on their board especially if he is avaiable at 20 (though I'd be ok at 14 personally).
PJ Washington will not be selected by Boston. It was reported by Adam Himmelsbach that he cancelled a workout at the last minute because of a "foot injury" that ended up being a blister. I'm not sure if it was just something he felt in his foot he hurt during the season or if it was just an excuse to get out of the workout. It didn't make him cancel any of his other workouts. Signals to me that he doesn't want to play for the Celtics.
Ainge had given signals of wanting to offload one or more of the Celtics' first-round picks for future assets, mostly because a championship contender built around Davis-Irving-Horford can't absorb too much youth or allocate developmental minutes to rookies.
That would be a pretty terrible draft unless they had a deal lined up for Clarke. His size and lack of a distance game would really limit his usefulness to Boston in a post-Horford world. Aside from that if you’re in rebuilding mode drafting guys to fill out the end of a rotation is a waste.
Regardless of his high school all star game history (or lack thereof) he flashed a pretty good skill package. It’s a gamble, of course, but at this point Boston needs to take a big gamble.
Yeah I just need something new and shiny to get excited about. Off season has just been too depressing otherwise. Clark, Goga/Bol, & Porter would do it for me.
I like Little but in about 90% of the mocks I've seen he's gone before we pick. However, if we could get to #10...
Isn't the point that a star athlete being suspended by any D1 school - not specifically USC - is huge concern because it's really, really hard to do anywhere? These guys are afforded all sorts of protection, forgiveness, and cover ups by athletic departments, campus police, etc.
It's a concern, and needs to be carefully explored during the draft evaluation process.
I’ve seen him from 10-18, so I put him on my list. No way I’d trade up for a 6’6” guy that raw. If he’s there, fine, if not that means that someone else has slipped.
