If they can't get to Olynk's $10.2M average salary in a trade because they can't aggregate more than 1 minimum salary guy (according to the article posted upthread or a different thread; I can't remember), I don't see how the Cs get to Thybulle ($11M) and I don't think they can get to Caruso ($9.245) since I believe PP has base year compensation issues.
Yea, I'm getting queasy on moving PP. He has lots of experience. Adds value in multiple ways offensively. Can be hidden defensively versus 2nd units.
They can get to Caruso money easy with Pritchard, Kornet, Brissett. But CHI will have better offers than a late first and those salaries/players.
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I tend to doubt they can upgrade 7th spot but agree the goal is a versatile guy who can deepen rotation. Best realistic guy I’ve heard—using Grant exception so it’s adding to depth—-is Jon Konchar.
Couple other names that fit into the 6.2 mill exception.
The guy I have my eye on, provided his team continues to stink, is Saddiq Bey.
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It means that super small sample sizes of trio's carry little predictive value I'm guessing.
I agree, would be nice to let Phi/Mil play first.
We thought it was so great last year that Miami took Milwaukee out, and also that we had home court.
Feels like Caruso will be a Sixer. They have minutes, the fit, and contracts. Plus some extra picks from the Clippers although not a ton.
Yea Caruso is the get. I'd expect their ask would be two firsts along with PP + and that filler
They owe a 2025 and a 2027 first, and are getting a 2026 and 2028 first. So not really extra picks, per se. But they can trade up to three picks.
Is there any reason Caruso at 9.8M wouldn’t be a positive asset that can be moved easily in the offseason if needed? Or is there some logistics issue for Phi if it comes to that?
Appreciate the information.
Can Olynyk at his $12.2 million salary be signed as a buyout?
Hopefully Ange does not like the idea that the Lakers have the same amount of titles as the Cs, and wants the Celtics to have more of them. There’s a good chance that Utah falls out of the race for the last play in spot, and there will be little reason to hang on to KO, since they have to pay Lauri Bird big money next season, and have Collins on the books for $26.5 million and probably will want to re-up Horton Tucker too.
If Ainge buys out KO I don’t think it will be a real favor to the Celtics. He will try and trade him first. If the deadline passes and he doesn’t get anything for him he will buy him out if KO wants to go to a contender because he’s an expiring contract.
Olynyk has value around the league on contenders. I don't know how Ainge can sell to his owner that he's acting in the best interest of the Jazz by simply buying him out with no return. This would be far different than McHale working w Ainge on a KG deal.
Just an acronym correction. It is the MLE that a player's salary needs to be under in order to be eligible to be signed as a buyout guy
Trade Olynyk to Detroit (or one of the lottery tankers) for pieces he actually might want, and let them buy them out?
Danny has to exhaust all Kelly trade options long before even considering a buyout. There are plenty of playoff contenders around the league that could use him.
Adam Taylor on Celticsblog has been beating the drum on that action ("Chin") for a couple weeks now.
After watching the Wolves last night Rudy & Conley will also struggle with that perimeter action
These guys claim Marc Stein suggested that Boston overpay for Dunn to get UTAH to also buy out KO.
I can't imagine the league would allow that, particularly with how much work has gone into making it hard for 2nd apron teams to acquire players.
Ok, that's exactly what I thought.
Word. The league twitterati is already wondering how the fuck Brad added Porzingis and Holiday to a team that went to the finals and missed the finals by one game in the last two years. Anything that looks remotely shady will be scrutinized by crowdsource, and the pressure on Silver would be pretty intense.
Jokic and Murray closed out playoff games last season so well with action out top that it got them a title.
Pretty much agree across the board.
I think the playoffs also showed them something.. especially end of games. Smart was often too careless/chaotic and White was the opposite.. it was a noticeable difference.. beyond that White also pushed the ball whereas Smart would often start the offense later into the clock. Smart didn’t defer to Tatum and Brown as much either.. White, to my eye, meshes with them a lot better. He also plays solid team defense where Smart l in Ed to freelance quite a bit.
I can't imagine a scenario where this happens.
Is there anywhere to see numbers of plays initiated by various players? And what amount of time denotes crunch time? Last six minutes of the fourth?
For me, I'm talking about where it's the last handful of possessions in a close game. NBA star time.
We witnessed, in the Lakers game, an experiment with the crunch-time approach/process.
Plus if there was some sort of wink/nod where the Cs send an extra draft pick for Dunn (although I think Dunn would be pretty coveted if he hit the market) and KO agreed to go to BOS so Danny bought him out, and the league found out about it, both franchises would be hammered. I'd imagine that both teams would lose at least 1 first round draft pick. Both Danny and Brad covet their draft picks too much to chance that.
