CELTICS 2010

lol otm

missed the game but jaylen 16fta on 11fga, wow

he was mad at himself after the game too! did not think he played well.

lol ok

they looked pretty good on offense, lots of bench scoring and tatum was looking more like his top form. defense less good but toronto scrubs were hot from 3 which makes the game closer than it should have been.

grant good game not sure why he fell out of the rotation, still shooting 40%+ from 3 on the season

gotta think the covid has been affecting jayson a lot some games with how much hes been talking about it, and how low energy he looks on some days

xp he was getting to the rim a little bit in this game which was nice. i don't really understand how brad decides between grant and semi and nesmith and the ghost of dino radja and whoever else they have on the bench.

yeah i believe jayson re: covid. he had some very uncharacteristic games and you could tell something was wrong.

he's had ups and downs but he's never been a low energy or low effort player

see if were brad i would just give some of thompsons minutes to grant why not how much worse could it be, and then i would give the rest of them to rob

i didn't see the game - how come theis only played 7 minutes?

.@semi showing love to @dtheis10 in his Twitch stream #EndTheWarOnTheis pic.twitter.com/k2DIkIrMDK

— Alejandro Proskauer 🇵🇷 (@AProskauer) March 7, 2021

lol that's a very niche t shirt

Breaking news: Marcus Smart got a new puppy while recovering from his calf injury.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) March 10, 2021

wow, one baby cow gets injured and he already moves onto another baby animal, wheres the fuckin loyalty

bison always watching out for bovine brethren

marcus back tonight :)

that warms my cold, twisted heart

he is the cold twisted heart and soul of the celtics

rob blocked another jumpshot

the nets are a tough matchup for him but he's still doing some stuff

got another one

i dont really understand this play thompson 18 minutes in the first half then zero minutes in the second rotation brads got going on

why not just play him zero minutes in the first as well

you shouldnt be a ball stopper when youre the worst offensive player on the floor

Marcus Smart getting ready for Celtics-Jazz 🤣

(via @NBCSCeltics)pic.twitter.com/fMiqO8OGMv

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) March 16, 2021

brad about to walk off the court during the first quarter and board a plane for bloomington

maybe the celtics are trying to make him

celtics should tank if they cant play better than this

trading for collins and bogdanovic together makes a lot of sense, i have no idea if the celtics have the assets or are willing to part with them, but i like the idea https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2021/03/celtics-trade-rumors-bogdan-bogdanovic-has-drawn-interest-from-boston-report.html

decent idea though if they're going to push a bunch of chips in i'd like to get at least one playoff-level defender out of it and that does not describe either of those guys.

celtics shd trade 4 rudy gay

if they're going to push a bunch of chips in i'd like to get at least one playoff-level defender out of it and that does not describe either of those guys.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, March 21, 2021 9:56 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah aaron gordon wld be pretty perfect, however the idea of getting two guys is also good

they could certainly use 2 guys

*waggling eyebrows*

Aaron Gordon has formally requested a trade from the Orlando Magic, sources tell @sam_amick & me. A deep dive his trade market, the Celtics’ pursuit of John Collins & how Marcus Smart and Bogdan Bogdanovic could be involved.

NEW @TheAthleticNBA https://t.co/5PEqOav4DA

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) March 22, 2021

Sources: The Boston Celtics are the current frontrunners for Aaron Gordon, having matched the Rockets’ offer of two first-round picks as part of a larger offer. Pick protections unknown. https://t.co/qSCjx4D6uv

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) March 23, 2021

hmmmmmmmm

well if im the magic id take it

Fake trade of the day 😓

If you want to accept the rumors...

C's get wing+depth, clear 2021-22 money, preserve Hayward TPE, pick protections are ONE season converting to 2 2nds.

Magic get Smart and the 2 picks. Have to clear a roster spot. Ideally TT to a 3rd team. pic.twitter.com/AVclOxpKhb

— Ryan Bernardoni AC⚡️AB (@dangercart) March 23, 2021

C's also end $1M below the tax this season

In effect...
Gordon for Smart
Fournier for a pick
Price to preserve TPE, add Birch, and move Thompson and Edwards off the books next season is Semi and the second pick

Single season protections keep you in the offseason trade game

— Ryan Bernardoni AC⚡️AB (@dangercart) March 23, 2021

y u braek heart boston

yeah trading smart would be....... audacious

kemba jalen jayson gordon williams would be basically impossible to score on tho

Hollinger in the Athletic:

How Aaron Gordon to Boston could work
So … Sam Amick put out the bat signal for some cap analysis Monday night on this possible Orlando-Boston trade (scroll below), and I am here to oblige.

A deal that sends Marcus Smart to Orlando for Evan Fournier and Aaron Gordon is, indeed, possible cap-wise because Smart’s salary is enough to offset Gordon’s, and Fournier fits into Boston’s massive $28 million trade exception from the Gordon Hayward trade. In fact, the Celtics would still have $11 million left over on their exception after taking in Fournier.

However, a better way for Boston to execute this deal would be include the minimum salaries of Javonte Green and Carsen Edwards along with Smart. Including Green would send out a $1.5 million salary the Celtics would otherwise end up having to waive, while having no impact on the $18.1 million trade exception that the Magic would generate for Gordon. And in the absence of any other moves, including Edwards’s $1.5 million becomes necessary to keep Boston below the hard cap.

One other piece I expect to come up, if it hasn’t been already, is a Khem Birch-Tristan Thompson swap as part of any Gordon trade with Boston. Birch has an expiring deal worth $3 million, while Thompson makes $9.7 million next season. Birch and Fournier for Smart and Thompson is clean cap-wise and actually generates an additional $6.7 million trade exception on Boston’s side.

The biggest issue with the Celtics trading for Gordon and Fournier is that Boston is likely to be about $25 million over the luxury tax line if they add Gordon and re-sign free-agent-to-be Fournier and would go further over if they re-sign Daniel Theis. Including Thompson in the trade would cut the number nearly in half and make this whole thing far more palatable from Boston’s end.

Alas, Orlando probably isn’t jonesing to pay Thompson $9.7 million next year either. Such a move would leave the Magic themselves just $10 million from next year’s tax line, and their first-round pick would soak up much of that room. Basically, it would make the Gordon traded player exception irrelevant because they wouldn’t be able to use it, and likely rob the Magic of using their full midlevel exception too. The Magic would need that money to sign a 3-and-D wing after losing Gordon and Fournier. Additionally, Thompson would be another potential roadblock to playing time for 2018 lottery pick Mo Bamba.

All told, I’d bet against Birch and Thompson being in this deal, but I’d be shocked if Boston didn’t broach it.

Finally, one more Orlando-Boston wrinkle: The Celtics should look really hard at setting up this deal as an extend-and-trade with Fournier. (For that matter, they could extend Gordon right now too, but he can get more years if he waits till the summer.) Locking in Fournier at something around his current number of $17.1 million would reduce a lot of the risk in this deal for Boston and have no impact on the Magic.

kemba jalen jayson gordon williams would be basically impossible to score on tho

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 23, 2021 11:51 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hypothetically they should be good defensively now tho lol, but gordon is a better fit at the 4 defensively than the jays and could play some mini ball 5

It would definitely be tough to see Marcus go. I don't really want to think about it if I don't have to, he's the exemplar extraordinaire of the Celtics Mindtype. But it's not a crazy trade if, like in the example above, the picks are fully lottery protected. Danny can't draft for shit anymore in the back half of the 1st round anyway.

Fournier is only 28, thought he was older. He needs to embrace the 6th man role for it to work, but if he does that, I'm warming to the idea

also I might be crazy but I feel like there was a point back in the day when people thought Khem Birch might be a player? Can't be that much of a step down from Thompson as a 3rd big

i mean according to b-ref he compares favorably to greg stiemsma so

hypothetically they should be good defensively now tho lol

and yet the grizz scored 1 billion points in the paint last night give or take. it's maddening.

not having to watch thompson attempt to play basketball would be a huge relief

maybe they can trade brad