The difference between the Lakers and the Celtics is the Celtics can still upgrade the team, the Lakers can't!
Lakers simply have no more draft picks to offer because of the AD trade with the Pels.
Celts might look like a different team after the trade deadline.
C's are better stocked for the long haul but there won't be much action for the C's at the deadline. only contracts of value to land a major player all belong to their 5 core players who are the ones that have gotten the C's into a finals appearance discussion
Celts can go after a player worth 18m.
But Langford has to be included in the package.
Theis, Kanter, Langford, and Poirier will total around 15.7m.
Those players aint gonna get anything back without including the Memphis pick since Langford at this point is a bust and Theis and Kanter are both bench players.
It doesn't have to be the Memphis pick.
As long as there's a pick involved, a team will bite.
When has danny traded a pick for a player excluding the IT trade and slam dunk trades like the KG trade? Danny loves those late first rounders for some reason
What's missing here is common sense.
think about what the rebuttal is to my comments "C's are better stocked for the long haul but there won't be much action for the C's at the deadline. only contracts of value to land a major player all belong to their 5 core players who are the ones that have gotten the C's into a finals appearance discussion" so far --> the argument that we can combine a bunch of role players plus possibly Romeo (who someone is already calling a bust which I disagree with) and the Memphis pick (which I wouldn't ship out unless we have a legit high-quality starter coming back under contract for at least 2 years following the current one).
-->the likelihood that Danny and another team in this league is going to move 4 players off our active 15 man roster, including 3 of our centers leaving only Timelord as the one remaining center who still hasn't figured out how to play team D nor provide much offense outside of an occasional dunk off a lob, is just non-existent. Who's this trading partner that's going to uproot their team? Who are the other players that would be coming back with this supposed superstar? you realize that although those salaries would match to someone making over $18 mill a season in the offseason when you have time to adjust your roster with filler. The deal automatically makes the C's short on the minimum number of players. I don't know if that's even allowed or if there's a grace period for filling with vet min players (who won't be nearly as useful as the players you're shipping out) or converting 2-way contracts which is horrible because Tacko's clearly not ready to play and we lose time on how much contractual control we'd have over Tacko and Waters.
not thought out at all.
I didn't say the Celts will move 3 Centers and 4 of the players on the 15-man roster.
What I said was it's possible the Celts can go after a player worth 18m.
The point is the Celts have enough assets to make a move.
Right now players worth more than 20m are out of reach because the Celts don't want to include any of their top 5 players.
So the max is 18m.
But it doesn't have to be an 18m player.
Celts can go after a player worth 13m.
If it's 13m, the Celts only need to give up Theis, Poirier, and Langford.
Again, the point is the Celts can make a move if they really want to.
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