CELTICS 2010

vooch was so bad i would avoid dude at all costs

do not like vooch

he's an empty stats guy imo

The Boston Celtics have emerged as the frontrunner to sign Charlotte All-Star guard Kemba Walker once free agency opens Sunday at 6 PM ET, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 27, 2019

danny “lagoon” ainge

is the implication that they're going to just sign him outright rather than do a sign-and-trade? i feel like that would eat up most if not all of their space and then they'd be left with, what, Gordon Hayward guarding their back line of defense?

yeah idk have to assume the celtics are aware they dont have any centers but not sure what their plan is

the base year compensation rules make it next to impossible to do a sign and trade with kemba.

sign and trades have become really hard to do. i'd bet against seeing a single one this offseason tbh.

getting kemba would be a pretty impressive pivot for the celtics given that he's the best free agent they reasonably have a shot at. i think you can go back and forth on how good he *actually* is but he's the type of guy that has thrived on brad stevens teams, he won't need to do as much as he did in charlotte, he's going to be a huge hit with the city, etc. etc.

they still have $5m bucks or so to get a center which should be plenty.

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yeah that is tempting. i really like turner. sabonis though, f no

ya, indy might like it too

and they both make $NaN

taken from elsewhere but lol

Upside: Very good player

Downside: Lots more UConn fans coming to games

Tough call but I’m in favor of it

why would the pacers trade turner

with the other FA renouncements they would be making if kemba were to formally commit, i think (though i'm not 100 percent on the math) they might well have space for someone above the bargain basement level, like a dewayne dedmon type

xp i really dont think they would, also cutting bait on jaylen seems wicked unwise

i don't think they would (or should) but if they feel they can't keep both turner and sabonis then they could make sabonis the starting 5, not pay bogdanovic who is older and replace him with brown, pay thad young for defense, and set up the team that way. it's a path that makes some sense but i think they will try to play sabonis and turner together until they realize it doesn't work.

yeah it solves positional issues for them and they get a really good young player

cutting bait on jaylen seems wicked unwise

― horford chants out between two worlds, "kyrie walk with me" (slothroprhymes), Thursday, June 27, 2019 11:09 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not cutting bait, its a trade for value

pacers also drafted a center

still feel like with kemba they risk having too much material and not enough glue again unless they make another big move

xp oh yeah the big dude who is certainly going to intentionally injure somebody in a few years

lol why do u hate this large euro already

lol idk i just decided on draft night that was his fate

haa

still feel like with kemba they risk having too much material and not enough glue again unless they make another big move

― ciderpress, Thursday, June 27, 2019 11:58 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah something like brown for turner wld address this

boston has kemba fever

Hi everyone.

I was walking in Boston Common today and ran into this 4 month old lab.

His name is Kemba.

You guessed it.

He was named after Kemba Walker because his owners went to UConn.

If this ain't a sign, I don't know what is.

Please RT for good luck. pic.twitter.com/euyI8u5v8k

— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) June 27, 2019

aw hi kemba!

Kemba feels kind of like an effort to recapture those feel-good Isaiah days, though with a presumably better and more durable player. Splitting the difference between Isaiah and Kyrie, kinda

yes this is why i support the move, maybe the celtics are better as a feisty second round team lol

tho they get a bunch of young guys who can play and who knows what develops

yep. Very intrigued by the Brown for Turner idea. Seems like Turner almost is what he is at this point, while Brown still growing into something, but what Turner is is pretty good and we need it. Just listened to Windy on Lowe's podcast yesterday though and both see Pacers as committed to making Sabonis/Turner work, for reasons unknown.

i think turner can get to another level if they let him hoist from 3

hes a great defender who can knock down open 3s, past that if he just works on stuff like making plays out of the pnr getting his shot off a lil faster etc seems like he shd be real good for years

ESPN story on the Boston Celtics hiring Kara Lawson as an assistant coach: https://t.co/E9b3NxcwVP

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 27, 2019

nice

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27071495/blame-kyrie-not-simple-boston

hard to come away from that article w/ any feeling beyond, damn danny ainge really screwed it up

if i'm assigning blame i feel that way more about stevens than ainge. i'm not really sure what ainge was supposed to do?

i think stevens is doing the honorable thing by trying to absorb the blame but if a coach is publicly saying "the pieces didn't fit" that means to me it falls squarely on the GM

the one thing i will give both stevens & ainge a pass on is the gordon hayward stuff.... the players should've understood that minutes needed to be invested in hayward simply so that he could get used to playing in the NBA again and that this year in all likelihood was going to be a struggle for him

yeah to me the biggest controllable thing that just didn't work was the handling of hayward. i don't know who to blame for that tbh. if they did a consolidation trade to get guys more shots or whatever hayward would still have been there playing like shit.

they thought they had a switchable monster with 4 two-way wings and if everyone played reasonably well that would have been correct.

☘️🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/ZDzIiheEXu

— Kerem Kanter (@KeremKanter) July 1, 2019

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The Boston Celtics and French center Vincent Poirier have agreed to a two-year deal, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Poirier is a 6-foot-11 center who will provide additional front court depth in Boston.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 2, 2019

everythings cool now

well i do like the name vincent

ha this dude is a total theis clone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cv40uGCAY

down to the tattoo sleeve

celtics taking the kyrie breakup hard

Much has been made of the continued availability of DeMarcus Cousins. According to source, Celtics are not interested. Don't want the potential drama.

— Mark Murphy (@Murf56) July 2, 2019