« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2019, 09:42:35 PM »
I think he's pretty washed up, but he can probably give the team better minutes than Williams or Yabu.
Probably.
I see Danny's inaction thus far as meaning one of two things: Either he has a clinically insane amount of confidence that the current squad will turn it around, or that he really doesn't care how this season ends (in the sense that whatever happens this season won't affect his plans for summer/next season).
Yeah, really get the feeling that Danny is really just waiting until the offseason. We were even more active last season, despite the lesser likelihood of truly competing for a ring.
Gotta remember though that the Celtics are hovering just a couple million over the luxury tax line. Danny, doing what's best for business, is probably doing a couple things: trying to figure out a way to get under this year's luxury tax and doing whatever he can to not increase salary any, as it's just more luxury tax he would have to pay with little of that increase significantly increasing this team's chances of going any farther in the playoffs than they would have anyway.
he can't get under the tax so they might as well improve the team.
Or, as a wise businessman once said..
it's just more luxury tax he would have to pay with little of that increase significantly increasing this team's chances of going any farther in the playoffs than they would have anyway.
So why waste millions?
I don't think that is true, but even if it is, how useful would a non-guaranteed 5 million dollar contract be this summer? That is a pretty nice salary filler for a trade you can get by signing someone like Pau for the full MLE the rest of this season and making a non-guaranteed 2nd year with a date of say August 1st. Pau can then get traded before August 1st and then waived by the next team. And even if Pau doesn't provide you anything of real note on the floor (and I'm not sure that is the case), it can't hurt to have a veteran with championship pedigree in the lockeroom right now.
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