The Pacers don't have #10 to trade, that belongs to Atlanta.
Aside from your first question, everything you say is correct. There is no team and we have no idea what Ainge has planned.
I love this trade for Indiana. They just added a legitimate wing/scorer who may evolve into a decent outside shooter. Good for Warren getting out of basketball purgatory too.
Twitter speculation is that they are going hard after D'Angelo Russell. I can't even imagine how bad the backcourt defense will be with him and Booker.
He's good, but not a lot of teams looking to burn that much cap space before knowing what is happening with better FAs. Indy could because he perfectly fit into the difference between a max deal and what they had. I think most teams with both cap space to take Warren, and good enough that Warren made sense for them, were waiting for bigger fish.
Depending on the price, almost certainly. He was very good last year and he's insanely young, and not far removed from being a really desirable prospect who went #2 for good reason. His defense is bad, but same can be said of a lot of the top PGs
100% agree. The off the court product is as compelling as the on court product. It is fascinating and the number of potential outcomes is seemingly infinite. Something big could happen tonight.
David Griffin is an excellent GM who caught unnecessary flak and ridicule because of a couple of overpays to role players to keep Lebron happy in Cleveland. You don't assemble a team that wins a title and makes the Finals four consecutive years by accident. My guess is that New Orleans has a really good team by the end of Zion's rookie contract.
Horford would be signed with cap space.
Brogdon makes a ton of sense to go after as his game is much more conductive to a Ainge/Brad player than Russell.
But he’s an RFA and the Bucks have a lot of incentive to keep him, so how much would the Celtics have to pay to make it happen?
I think it all depends on if Middleton stays or not. If KM re-signs for the max, how far into the luxury tax are they willing to go in order to keep the band together?
If by a PG you mean a free agent looking to make more than say $5-7M a season...... no.
To the extent that this is true, how much might the Celtics be leaning on Hayward to run the point? Assuming he continues to improve health-wise, I would think the need for a game manager-style PG is reduced in that scenario.
Brogdon just had a 50-40-90 season. That is the exact type of player the Celtics need as they don't have enough good shooters.
He'll get really heavy usage if healthy. His last year in Utah, George Hill was playing a very Brogdon-esque role at PG.
Because we'd face Giannis and/or Embiid in the playoffs. I'd love it if the C's could land Brogdon and Vucevic though.I kinda like the super small ball, super switchable idea of Brogdon (6'5"), Smart (6'4"), Brown (6'7"), Tatum (6'8"), Hayward (6'8"). Hey, if GS can play Green at center why the fuck can't we play Hayward there
Agreed. Brogdon would be a terrific fit on this Celtics team. If Danny could somehow replace Al/Kyrie with Vucevic/Brogdon, this would be a solid offseason. Not sure they could fit under the cap though.
They couldn't do both Vuc and Brogdon, but they could sign Brogdon and trade for Capela.
We've seen Semi do a credible job on Giannis, and Baynes bang with Embiid. The team's feeling is probably that if they're in a position where they're (unexpectedly quickly) at the level where they're up against Milwaukee and Philly in the East, they can pick up someone to fill that role on the cheap.
I don't think Capela is the second coming or anything, but I like him better than Vuc for defense, age, and contract. At this point I have no clue what will happen though.
As would everyone else. As a RFA you'd need to make an overpay offer of maybe 4/$80m for the Bucks not to match. You'd probably not want to do more than 4/$70m but then the Bucks would likely match. If we are going to be in retooling mode then playoff matchups aren't really going to matter a ton. I'd be shocked if Vucevic was a guy Ainge would even pay for much less overpay in FA.
Brogdon is probably worth around $15 million/year. Probably have to go to $17-$19 per year to get him away from the Bucks. But, if they sign Middleton to the max and want to bring back either/or of Mirotic and Lopez are they going to want to spend that much to match?
Yeah as a general concept, PG is probably the easiest position to find reasonable guys on the cheap IF you have shot creators on the wing. This is the part of the roster I'm least worried about.
If DA is even contemplating crazy money for Rozier, then slightly crazier money for Brogdon sounds good to me.
My sense is that the Bucks have a window here right now, and will be willing to spend to bring everyone back (apart from possibly Mirotic). They were the best team in the regular season last year, and Toronto is likely about to lose Kawhi, the Warriors are a shell, etc... If they bring everyone back, they're the title favorites IMO.
