While not in the same division, and also under the old CBA.... The Cavs did arrange a sign-and-trade with the Heat when LeBron left. One of those draft picks became Jae Crowder, while another one, along with the trade exception, was part of the package used to acquire Kevin Love. IIRC, the Heat had the space to sign LeBron outright.
Extremely unlikely. NY has the cap space to sign Kyrie outright to the same contract he'd get in a sign and trade.
So to take this one step further. If Kyrie opts to sign with the Knicks (BTW I think Kyrie will re-sign with the C's, just kicking around contingency scenario)
Probably not since Plan A of keeping Kyrie gets you much closer to a championship than his walking away for nothing.
I don't think the question is being Okay with kyrie walking away. Obviously keeping him adds the most value to the franchise through assets and wins. But what if he signs somewhere else - what then? Retool and compete - if so how? Move on from folks (e.g,. Al, Heyward) and reset around the brown/tatum timeline? Is there a better point guard than Terry that allows the team to stay competitive...
If there is a better point guard out there than Rozier to stay competitive if Kyrie leaves, you probably can't get him because you won't have the cap space. Only way Horford is opting out in my opinion is if Boston has agreed on a longterm deal with him, and Hayward currently has negative value because he hasn't bounced all the way back yet.
Here's the flip side of this question.
It's not what fans want to hear, but I believe that choice will be made by Kyrie.
Yeah I saw another post that claimed that the "two" Kyrie seems to indicate is for max slots. The reality is that we don't know if Kyrie is trying to convince Durant to go with him to NY, to CP3 his way to Boston, to buy into a great timeshare deal or simply to get two tables in the club after the game.
In all sincerity, how often will he have to reaffirm between now and July to satisfy you? Is it every few months? After each "plausible" rumor? Whenever a reporter sticks a microphone in his face? Nothing changes from now until then, so I'd prefer he and the team focus on this season and not appeasing the media.
Best way to keep the focus would be to leave no doubt. This was discussed thoroughly with the AD speculation before the deadline. He had a golden opportunity to make it clear, he chose not to. Here we are.
I never said he doesn’t have the right.
He affirmed it to celtics season-ticket holders. That was good enough for me.
All that matters to me is that Danny has his finger on the pulse. The recent report that the Celtics FO is upset with Klutch for leaking false news about Kyrie should tell us that there’s probably more alignment there than we at first feared.
They were totally planning to go to the Knicks. Lip readers on Twitter said so.
Doesn’t mean much but definitely seems like a growing consensus. In Danny we trust.
Which is kind of dumb. Kyrie Irving is a top 20 guy and former champion. This is his team and everyone knows it. So, is the issue really with Hayward? We’re talking another former all-star who the team invested a max contract on. It would be dumb of the young guys to resent him getting minutes.
Rozier is an RFA and wants to get paid so he wants to put up numbers to get a big offer sheet. I'm not surprised there's an issue with him. If Brown has an issue with Hayward playing, well that's on him. Hayward when healthy is a better player than Brown.
There's only so much you can address. This situation is much more on Danny than on Brad, imo. That said, there's still a lot of time to solve the situation.
Young guys think that they are capable of doing more than they have been doing <> young guys don't want to take a back seat.
What is fabricated? There have clearly been locker room issues. We’ve seen Kyrie ripping teammates, Morris and Brown in the huddle, Rozier talking about his contract, like 5,000 team meetings, etc. It’s quite possible that the internal strife is getting overblown but I have a hard time believing that nothing is there.
Not only is there only so much that can be addressed, there is only so much that can be "solved." The players feel the way they feel, and its not going to change. But how they feel isn;t important.
It also sounds like he included himself among those "young guys," seeing as how he specificaly mentioned being 26. Anyone taking from *that* interview that there are some sort of serious problems that are holding the team back is reaching.
Yes of course. The team thought they were a 60+ win team, but for a variety of reasons that's not true. And Morris/Rozier playing for their next deal creates some tension. Enough quality players that practically nobody will be 100% happy with their minutes. These are things that teams encounter all of the time. You could switch Kyrie with 20 other guys in the league, and that guy is saying almost the same shit.
All I took from his interview is that winning this year has been harder than they expected, and everyone thinks that they should play more.
I wouldn't call it complaining, he says he isn't getting the minutes he wants, but seems to understand that it's for the benefit of the team.
The quote was something like "I'm 26, why do I have to wait?" He's 26 now.
