Giannis for JB trade (poll)

[Birdman]

Tatum & Brown will retire as Celtics

[rondohondo]

Look at the bigs we will have to get by to win a championship the next 3-5 years

KAT
Embiid
Wymby
Holmgren

Giannis is a necessity for the rest of Tatums prime imo. They are a much better fit than Brown and Giannis would be together

[tenn_smoothie]

We can swap and trade and sign free agents and draft and rebuild or not rebuild and bring Vuce back or not and keep Brown or trade for a different star ...... whatever.

Until the Celts replace Mazzulla with a competent head coach, the roster adjustments will not win us another title.
If Stevens cannot see this, he needs to go as well. Get some pro grownups in here to run this franchise.

[Who]

Look at the bigs we will have to get by to win a championship the next 3-5 years

KAT
Embiid
Wymby
Holmgren

Giannis is a necessity for the rest of Tatums prime imo. They are a much better fit than Brown and Giannis would be together

I have never seen Giannis play Wemby. Does he play well against him? I could see Wemby's shot blocking as a help defender disrupting Giannis' driving game.

Not worried about KAT or Chet. They are not top level players. Embiid we can get by with a solid one-on-one defender (maybe Queta will be that in the future). Not worried about him either.

Wemby is a problem though. Not sure they can do anything about that though. There are no good matchups / solutions for him.

[jambr380]

Now we have Vuc's $21m coming off the books (he was a $30m cap hold until he re-signs with us or someone else) and without him we would be at $187m, which is $13m below the tax line and $21m below the first apron. And we have the Simons TPE which is $27m. So those are the substantial things Brad can manipulate - he can re-sign Vuc for a lower number and then use some of that Simons TPE to get a big, a ball handler, or both, knowing that if he wants to stay under the tax all 3 have to be no more than $13m. Then we should have our non taxpayer MLE as well (I think $15m). But if we use all of it we get hardcapped at the first apron which I'm sure Brad won't want to do, especially since he wants to be under the luxury tax.

Of course we could ship out some of the forum pinatas too (like Jaylen  ). It just needs to all be under $200m which I think the luxury tax line will be next season.

I wonder if they could trade Sam Hauser ($10.85mil) and try to bring A Simons back. Keep Vooch at a lower number. It would be a tight squeeze. Allow Scheierman, J Walsh, Hugo to replace Hauser as the backup wing / forward.

G: Pritchard, A Simons
G: D White, Scheierman
F: Jaylen, J Walsh
F: Tatum, Hugo
C: Queta, Vucevic

It doesn't look like there is any other moveable salary other than Hauser. The rest are the core pieces of Tatum, Jaylen, D White and the bargain contract of Pritchard. Hauser looks to only viable candidate to move to free up more cash to spend.

I am assuming both Vucevic and A Simons are looking at MLE type money in FA. Oooh, starting salary for the MLE is now $14mil. Moving Hauser would leave only $24mil to spend. Tight. Not good.

Keep in mind that the option to do what we did this year at the deadline will exist as well. We traded Minott, Boucher, and Tillman and cleared approximately $8M in salary. We then used 10 day and rookie contracts to fill out the roster for much less. That $13M is more like $20M in practical terms.

That obviously doesn't include trading Brown, White, and/or Hauser for players making less salary

[celticinorlando]

Unfortunately, I expect nothing change and the Cs run it back as it.