Al Horford agrees to 4-year, $113M deal with the Boston Celtics!!

[BudweiserCeltic]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBA
Sources: Kevin Durant had been recruiting Horford to OKC, but Horford eliminated OKC with no assurance Durant/Westbrook staying long-term.

[CelticD]

lol the rage on the washington blog is killin me right now 

[SCeltic34]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBA
Sources: Kevin Durant had been recruiting Horford to OKC, but Horford eliminated OKC with no assurance Durant/Westbrook staying long-term.

No problem.  Durant can just come to Boston now and it's all good.

The grass IS GREENER here KD. 

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Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBA
Sources: Kevin Durant had been recruiting Horford to OKC, but Horford eliminated OKC with no assurance Durant/Westbrook staying long-term.

ok some of this is getting more interesting now...that and the news that KD was on the plane with Brady...

[walker834]

That is awesome.  I was just saying what we need are guys who are willing to work at something bigger and improve vs going for guaranteed money without having to work for it or a shot at a title.  That's celtic pride.

Then boom Aldridge owned Woj.

[colincb]

Sam Amick ‏@sam_amick 9m9 minutes ago

And talk about timing: I'm told the Celtics meeting with Kevin Durant in the Hamptons is still going as we speak (tweet).

Could this be true?!!!

[BringToughnessBack]

I was eating dinner and so depressed reading other topic.how we has going back to.atlanta and suddenly, when food was getting ready to come up, boom! Horford signs with us!! I am beyond excited we were.able to convince Horford to leave only team he knew to help us raise 18 in the near future. He will be perfect personality fit with Stevens and our team

CALL Durant and join you in Celtics Green. No more we can't sign free agents anymore...

A big congrats to Ainge and recruiting support...thank you for not caving on draft day and getting Noel..now we have a better shot at Durant as well.....

[Atzar]

That's a lot of money for a #3, but I guess this is just the going rate for a good player this year.

On the court, he shores up our biggest weakness.  Need him to stay healthy, but the Celtics are a better team now than they were an hour ago.

[hpantazo]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBA
Sources: Kevin Durant had been recruiting Horford to OKC, but Horford eliminated OKC with no assurance Durant/Westbrook staying long-term.

ok some of this is getting more interesting now...that and the news that KD was on the plane with Brady...

Ainge during the negotiations with Durant: "fine, you can borrow Tom Brady if you like"

[colincb]

Mark Murphy ‏@Murf56 3m3 minutes ago Boston, MA

Brady active in the Durant meeting. Said someone privy to meeting: "Tom told him what it's like to play in Boston, how special it is."

[mef730]

Let's not get too optimistic. After all, we've only ever had one big FA signing.

 

Mike

[jpotter33]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojVerticalNBA
Sources: Kevin Durant had been recruiting Horford to OKC, but Horford eliminated OKC with no assurance Durant/Westbrook staying long-term.

And how many of us have been saying that Westbrook's future plans are going to dictate whether or not KD stays in OKC??

[CFAN38]

I love the fact that DA held assets rather then trading for Horford mid season

[colincb]

Royce Young ‏@royceyoung 11m11 minutes ago

Something seems to have dramatically swung Horford choosing Boston. I'm sure the windows at the OKC practice facility rattled a bit just now

[GreenGoggles]

Welcome Horford! His game will age well!