Time for a change?

[Celtics4ever]

Theoretically KP would be a great compliment to Giannis, as a big who can shoot the three and open up the lane.

His health is terrifying.  He played in 15 games last year.  17 games the year before. 42 games the year before.  For his career he has played 523 of a possible 820 games.  That is roughly 64% of games and he is getting older and has a medical concern.


https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/porzikr01.html

He has POTS.POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is not a heart disease and is not life-threatening. However, it is a serious and sometimes debilitating neurological condition affecting the autonomic nervous system, which can significantly disrupt your daily life and requires careful, ongoing management.  This is a nerves, not something they can fix with surgery.


Yes, he was great in bursts for us but I think it is an easy pass to take on him.


I think a front court of Queta, Giannis and Tatum would be formidable.   We use bigs, wings and ball handlers not traditional positions. Positions matter more on D anyways than on offense.   Tatum, Giannis would be great small ball options and they are not really small.

[Roy H.]

Theoretically KP would be a great compliment to Giannis, as a big who can shoot the three and open up the lane.

His health is terrifying.  He played in 15 games last year.  17 games the year before. 42 games the year before.  For his career he has played 523 of a possible 820 games.  That is roughly 64% of games and he is getting older and has a medical concern.


https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/porzikr01.html

He has POTS.POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is not a heart disease and is not life-threatening. However, it is a serious and sometimes debilitating neurological condition affecting the autonomic nervous system, which can significantly disrupt your daily life and requires careful, ongoing management.  This is a nerves, not something they can fix with surgery.


Yes, he was great in bursts for us but I think it is an easy pass to take on him.


I think a front court of Queta, Giannis and Tatum would be formidable.   We use bigs, wings and ball handlers not traditional positions. Positions matter more on D anyways than on offense.   Tatum, Giannis would be great small ball options and they are not really small.

It's not *quite* that bad.  He played in 32 games last year -- 15 with GSW, and 17 with ATL -- and 43 with the Celts the year before.

I mean, if Brad is of the mind that we're not winning a title without a gamble / big time luck, this is a championship roster *if healthy*.

KP / Queta / Garza
Giannis / FA
Tatum / Hauser / Walsh
White / Scheierman
Pritchard / FA

[celticinorlando]

You sign KP it better be on the cheap. Cannot count on him to play more that 40 games.

[Phantom255x]

I'm very curious what Porzingis' market will end up being. There's no way a team out there is gonna be willing to give him a long term deal given his POTS diagnosis. Maybe a 1+1 but even the teams with cap space might hesitate locking him up to a semi-significant monetary deal. It's possible he could just be forced to take an exception deal or something similar. 

[Celtics2021]

I'm very curious what Porzingis' market will end up being. There's no way a team out there is gonna be willing to give him a long term deal given his POTS diagnosis. Maybe a 1+1 but even the teams with cap space might hesitate locking him up to a semi-significant monetary deal. It's possible he could just be forced to take an exception deal or something similar.

I think the Warriors will try to keep him.  They have his Bird rights and not much flexibility if they do not make a trade.

[Celtics4ever]

It's not *quite* that bad.  He played in 32 games last year -- 15 with GSW, and 17 with ATL -- and 43 with the Celts the year before.

I stand both corrected and vindicated.  Thanks.

[Phantom255x]

Jaylen removed the Celtics from his social media bio and all connections in his social media to them.

Also interesting that in the past when Jaylen was in trade rumors (ex. Durant), usually local reporters and the teams would come out very soon after and say ?nope Jaylen is still here and we love having him, nothing to see? yet we have not seen that so far.

Starting to feel scared this is happening

[Goldstar88]

Jaylen removed the Celtics from his social media bio and all connections in his social media to them.

Also interesting that in the past when Jaylen was in trade rumors (ex. Durant), usually local reporters and the teams would come out very soon after and say ?nope Jaylen is still here and we love having him, nothing to see? yet we have not seen that so far.

Starting to feel scared this is happening

Great point

[Jiri Welsch]

Jaylen removed the Celtics from his social media bio and all connections in his social media to them.

Also interesting that in the past when Jaylen was in trade rumors (ex. Durant), usually local reporters and the teams would come out very soon after and say ?nope Jaylen is still here and we love having him, nothing to see? yet we have not seen that so far.

Starting to feel scared this is happening

Why scared?