Shams: Minott to BKN

[President Red]

I didn't expect this one, particularly because he had gotten at least token playing time after what supposedly was a long absence due to an ankle injury.  I thought he would get some ninth-man time, at least.  I hope there's a plan for the open roster spots beyond a cost savings.

I think he just got passed by three Celtics draft picks and there was not longer a great need for a very small ball C.

That makes sense.  I was pleasantly surprised by him early in the year.  I had expected him to be a garbage-time guy at best and he impressed me.  Of course, I also expected Boucher to be a pretty big contributor, so that's how far my player evaluations can be trusted.

[Celtic Fan Forever]

Anyone know what we get back? Protected second, cash?

[Jiri Welsch]

Anyone know what we get back? Protected second, cash?

Maybe cash -- but I saw no player and no draft pick.

[flybono]

BS took out the trash
Good riddance

[ozgod]

I figured this was a move to get us under the tax. Right now we are $1.7m over the tax line, so we will be paying $5m in tax. A trifling amount but it's the rate that they would have wanted to reset, given how close they got to resetting it. Right now we have no more non-guaranteed contracts we can waive to get under it. We could probably waive and stretch someone like X, that would spread out his $2.5m into 5 years at $500k a season so that would *technically* get us below the tax, but I can't see Brad doing that given how popular X apparently is in the locker room. Popular enough to not be able to reset the tax for, given we are SO CLOSE?

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Looks like we converted Amari to a standard contract.

[ozgod]

Forget what I said...according to @Celtics2021 you can't stretch players waived during the season, and in any case you can only stretch them over 3 years, not 5.

[trickybilly]

His body language out there seemed terrible lately

Happy him and Boucher are gone

Eh, I'd be disappointed too if I came to Boston thinking rebuild year, and I can increase value before free agency, only to get stuck behind other guys whilst when I am on the court doing really well. We were all high on Minott during that early run.

This is purely business though.

[Who]

What the heck if Brooklyn's roster now?

That team is hard to keep track of.

G: Egor Demin, Nolan Traore, Ben Saraf
G: Terrance Mann, Drake Powell, Ochai Agbaji
F: Michael Porter Jr, Jalen Wilson, Hunter Tyson, Josh Minott
F: Noah Clowney, Ziaire Williams
C: Nic Claxton, Dayron Sharpe, Danny Wolf

That PG spot is a disaster zone.

I like T-Mann at SG but not much behind him. Their SF position is where their best player is and where they have the most depth. Serviceable depth rather than quality depth though.

The PF position is a disaster spot as well.

Love Nic Claxton.