Why no free agent C's chatter?

[PosImpos]

I will be surprised if Danny and Wyc decide to go deep into luxury tax territory to sign someone like Kirilenko.

This is the last year that the big 3 will be together, and they will give it everything they can.
Hell, they were willing to go after JO and put us deeper with West.
They will make one more move.
Jeff was 10-15ppg off the bench which they need to replace.

i'm honestly not sure the team will even have the option of signing Green and getting the exception.  it would essentially be the team signing a player they know can't perform the obligations in his contract (signing a guy to play this season who can't play this season) just to get the injury exception, allowing the team to spend over the cap.

you really think the league office is going to okay that?  yeah, you can say that the celtics expected to be able to spend around $5 million on a player to fill the backup SF slot and Green being out means they are short a SF through no fault of their own.  but that ignores the fact that if Green had chosen to sign elsewhere, or if he simply chose not to play in the NBA at all this season, the C's would not have had that money to spend.  all along, that money was either going to be spent on Jeff Green, a player we got via signing-and-trading Jeff Green, or on nobody at all.

[bfrombleacher]

I will be surprised if Danny and Wyc decide to go deep into luxury tax territory to sign someone like Kirilenko.

This is the last year that the big 3 will be together, and they will give it everything they can.
Hell, they were willing to go after JO and put us deeper with West.
They will make one more move.
Jeff was 10-15ppg off the bench which they need to replace.

i'm honestly not sure the team will even have the option of signing Green and getting the exception.  it would essentially be the team signing a player they know can't perform the obligations in his contract (signing a guy to play this season who can't play this season) just to get the injury exception, allowing the team to spend over the cap.

you really think the league office is going to okay that?  yeah, you can say that the celtics expected to be able to spend around $5 million on a player to fill the backup SF slot and Green being out means they are short a SF through no fault of their own.  but that ignores the fact that if Green had chosen to sign elsewhere, or if he simply chose not to play in the NBA at all this season, the C's would not have had that money to spend.  all along, that money was either going to be spent on Jeff Green, a player we got via signing-and-trading Jeff Green, or on nobody at all.

:\ As always hope for the best expect the worst I guess

[chambers]

I will be surprised if Danny and Wyc decide to go deep into luxury tax territory to sign someone like Kirilenko.

This is the last year that the big 3 will be together, and they will give it everything they can.
Hell, they were willing to go after JO and put us deeper with West.
They will make one more move.
Jeff was 10-15ppg off the bench which they need to replace.

i'm honestly not sure the team will even have the option of signing Green and getting the exception.  it would essentially be the team signing a player they know can't perform the obligations in his contract (signing a guy to play this season who can't play this season) just to get the injury exception, allowing the team to spend over the cap.

you really think the league office is going to okay that?  yeah, you can say that the celtics expected to be able to spend around $5 million on a player to fill the backup SF slot and Green being out means they are short a SF through no fault of their own.  but that ignores the fact that if Green had chosen to sign elsewhere, or if he simply chose not to play in the NBA at all this season, the C's would not have had that money to spend.  all along, that money was either going to be spent on Jeff Green, a player we got via signing-and-trading Jeff Green, or on nobody at all.

:\ As always hope for the best expect the worst I guess

Well technically, the NBA can't step in and stop this because they Celtics can say they are signing Green to retain the rights to him once he is healthy. If they don't sign him, they can't keep the rights to him. Sounds dumb but if they want to spend 9 million to do that because they 'value' Green that much, I don't see how the NBA can stop them.
It's kinda sketchy, but perfectly legal, and there are much dirtier moves pulled by NBA GM's and offices than this.
We deserve a bit of luck anyway so hopefully the leprechaun can pull something for us.