Marcus Morris Bird Rights and power forward position

[rollie mass]

Do i understand this properly, we can sign Morris and go above salary cap with his Bird Rights.? How can the Celtics benefit from this situation?.Does a sign and trade apply?
What are different scenarios that would benefit the team?There are rumors of Mavs and LA interest and the Mavs lost Green from their radar and Morris was also a focus after Green.
We are weak at power forward
-Theis is back and playing Jason as power forward is not ideal for him with his lack of lower body mass
Gordon is slimming down.
 Robert Williams played power forward in college,
Grant Williams although a rookie is also  undersized as a  power forward.
Just saw some pics of Ojeleye in great physical shape looking leaner -he promises to be more aggressive along with Yabusele.

Apologies the Celts to sign Walker had to renounce his Bird rights!!!!!!!

[rondofan1255]

Markieff got the 3.6M bi-annual exception from Detroit.

Wonder which team will sign Marcus.

[footey]

I think we had to renounce him to sign Kemba, which means we no longer hold his bird rights.

[bdm860]

I'm far from a cap guru, but looking at the cap situation on spotrac which seems up-to-date as they already have the moves that just happened (Kawhi, George, Cook, Green), it looks like nobody has any real room left.

Trader Danny could always help facilitate something (if the C's haven't already renounced him yet for Kemba), but the C's already have a full roster so they wouldn't be looking to take back players (but again, it's Danny, so you never know).

Teams out of cap room seems to limit anybody being able to bid up his services

I guess the non tax payer mid level of $9.26m is still available, but which teams even have that available at this point?

I thought Morris would probably get the type of deal Danny Green ($30m/2yrs) or Trevor Ariza ($25m/2yrs) got, but looks like he might have to take scraps in the year he'd be mostly like to land his only big contract.  If he takes a cheap 1 year deal, I don't think he'd be much more likely to land a big pay day in a weaker free agent market when he's a year older next year playing for a team that might not utilize him as well as Stevens did.

Have to see where he eventually signs and for how much, but is this a case of our favorite agent Rich Paul busy prioritizing building a super team around LeBron and AD in LA, and neglecting Morris?  Wouldn't be surprised to see "Morris signs with new agent" in the headlines if something good doesn't materialize soon.

[rondofan1255]

looks like he might have to take scraps in the year he'd be mostly like to land his only big contract.

Definitely not looking good, unfortunately. Maybe he waited too long, or was there just not much interest in FA?

[Wretch]

I think Morris is the victim of the new FA economy. With stars changing teams so quickly regardless of their contract status the only teams that will commit to "middle class"  contracts like what Morris is looking  for are the elite contenders looking for elite role players to compliment their stars. There are a few outliers but I think we`ll see a lot more good veterans playing on exceptions or league minimums than in the past. The non elite contenders will fill their rosters with draft picks and upside laden players that could develop  into stars or tradable assets.

[rondofan1255]

Marcus Morris just tweeted implying that he’s not going to LAL

[Birdman]

Clippers?

[CelticsElite]

I'm far from a cap guru, but looking at the cap situation on spotrac which seems up-to-date as they already have the moves that just happened (Kawhi, George, Cook, Green), it looks like nobody has any real room left.

Trader Danny could always help facilitate something (if the C's haven't already renounced him yet for Kemba), but the C's already have a full roster so they wouldn't be looking to take back players (but again, it's Danny, so you never know).

Teams out of cap room seems to limit anybody being able to bid up his services

I guess the non tax payer mid level of $9.26m is still available, but which teams even have that available at this point?

I thought Morris would probably get the type of deal Danny Green ($30m/2yrs) or Trevor Ariza ($25m/2yrs) got, but looks like he might have to take scraps in the year he'd be mostly like to land his only big contract.  If he takes a cheap 1 year deal, I don't think he'd be much more likely to land a big pay day in a weaker free agent market when he's a year older next year playing for a team that might not utilize him as well as Stevens did.

Have to see where he eventually signs and for how much, but is this a case of our favorite agent Rich Paul busy prioritizing building a super team around LeBron and AD in LA, and neglecting Morris?  Wouldn't be surprised to see "Morris signs with new agent" in the headlines if something good doesn't materialize soon.

idk why NBA players would sign with rich. If your not lebron he doesn't care