2026-27 Celtics Off Season Discussion

[Goldstar88]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I don?t think Detroit would make that trade for Hauser. Stewart is a much better player and they already have Duncan Robinson. Orlando does need more shooting, so maybe they?d be interested in Sam, however, I wouldn?t be interested in Blitzdale since Boston already has Queta.

I?d love to bring back Timelord and/or KP. I?m also a fan of Grimes. He is a good 2-way player. Pass on Sexton and Simons.

[Phantom255x]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I don?t think Detroit would make that trade for Hauser. Stewart is a much better player and they already have Duncan Robinson. Orlando does need more shooting, so maybe they?d be interested in Sam, however, I wouldn?t be interested in Blitzdale since Boston already has Queta.

I?d love to bring back Timelord and/or KP. I?m also a fan of Grimes.

What about WCJ from the Magic?

[Goldstar88]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I don?t think Detroit would make that trade for Hauser. Stewart is a much better player and they already have Duncan Robinson. Orlando does need more shooting, so maybe they?d be interested in Sam, however, I wouldn?t be interested in Blitzdale since Boston already has Queta.

I?d love to bring back Timelord and/or KP. I?m also a fan of Grimes.

What about WCJ from the Magic?

Sure, but why would the Magic want to move Carter Jr. He is their starting center on a team friendly contract.

[Phantom255x]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I don?t think Detroit would make that trade for Hauser. Stewart is a much better player and they already have Duncan Robinson. Orlando does need more shooting, so maybe they?d be interested in Sam, however, I wouldn?t be interested in Blitzdale since Boston already has Queta.

I?d love to bring back Timelord and/or KP. I?m also a fan of Grimes.

What about WCJ from the Magic?

Sure, but why would the Magic want to move Carter Jr. He is their starting center on a team friendly contract.

Oh I thought I read somewhere they would look into trading him depending on what other moves they make this offseason

[Surferdad]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I don?t think Detroit would make that trade for Hauser. Stewart is a much better player and they already have Duncan Robinson. Orlando does need more shooting, so maybe they?d be interested in Sam, however, I wouldn?t be interested in Blitzdale since Boston already has Queta.

I?d love to bring back Timelord and/or KP. I?m also a fan of Grimes. He is a good 2-way player. Pass on Sexton and Simons.

This pretty much aligns with my thoughts. Joe will know exactly what he can do with these frontcourt alumni.

Get a center from the WC: Timelord, KP or possibly John Collins.

[Roy H.]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I think your plan has us using the MLE twice, since there's no way any of those guards take the minimum.  And, that's about $35 million or so in new salary, which means we'd have to dump more than Hauser to stay under the first apron (which would be our hard cap).

[SparzWizard]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I think your plan has us using the MLE twice, since there's no way any of those guards take the minimum.  And, that's about $35 million or so in new salary, which means we'd have to dump more than Hauser to stay under the first apron (which would be our hard cap).

Dump White, or even Jordan Walsh

[Roy H.]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I think your plan has us using the MLE twice, since there's no way any of those guards take the minimum.  And, that's about $35 million or so in new salary, which means we'd have to dump more than Hauser to stay under the first apron (which would be our hard cap).

Dump White, or even Jordan Walsh

Dumping White to add one of those guys makes us worse, and letting Walsh go barely saves us anything.

[celticinorlando]

I do not think anything big happens. They run it back as is with a few minor additions that really do not move the needle.

Don't think Brown gets moved.

But a starting line up of Brown, White, Tatum, Queta and Sam just is not very good. They really need two legit starters so those guys come off the bench.

Make the bench better also.

[Phantom255x]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I think your plan has us using the MLE twice, since there's no way any of those guards take the minimum.  And, that's about $35 million or so in new salary, which means we'd have to dump more than Hauser to stay under the first apron (which would be our hard cap).

I thought the Celtics had more going into the offseason, like about 30M to play with and that's even before the Hauser trade? If not, then I guess just cancel the 3rd thing, or find even cheaper options there. Stewart makes about 15M but Bitzdale makes just 7M if that's a factor too. 

I personally still think they need two big men additions. I'm probably in the minority who feels that way but it's hard not to look at the Sixers series with Embiid, and the playoffs in general and not feel they need to revamp the frontcourt. I think Hugo, Baylor, PP and probably even Harper can grow into their roles this season and help, but they need way better than Vucevic/Garza.

[Celtics2021]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I think your plan has us using the MLE twice, since there's no way any of those guards take the minimum.  And, that's about $35 million or so in new salary, which means we'd have to dump more than Hauser to stay under the first apron (which would be our hard cap).

I thought the Celtics had more going into the offseason, like about 30M to play with and that's even before the Hauser trade? If not, then I guess just cancel the 3rd thing, or find even cheaper options there. Stewart makes about 15M but Bitzdale makes just 7M if that's a factor too. 

I personally still think they need two big men additions. I'm probably in the minority who feels that way but it's hard not to look at the Sixers series with Embiid, and the playoffs in general and not feel they need to revamp the frontcourt. I think Hugo, Baylor, PP and probably even Harper can grow into their roles this season and help, but they need way better than Vucevic/Garza.

Yeah, you got it wrong.  They have roughly $15 million to play with.  They can use it a few different ways, such as by using the entire MLE, or by trading Hauser for someone who makes $15 million more and using the Simons TPE to absorb that contract (either in one deal or separate deals where Hauser goes to a third team).  But they can add only one significant salary.

Those numbers are assuming the Celtics stay below the luxury tax.  If they choose to exceed it, they have an additional $7 million to spend, but are subject to the hard cap, so they are never getting to $30 million in spending power.

[Vermont Green]

Celtics2021 is all over this as usual, and I am seeing about the same with my spreadsheet, $15M'ish to stay under the tax and $23M'ish to stay under the 1st apron.  There is some variability due to Team Option contracts and contracts for draft picks, but these are the approximate ranges.

But BOS is still over the salary cap so they can't just sign players.  The can sign their own (such Vucevic) without many restrictions, but if they sign someone not previously on BOS, they have to use the MLE (about $15M, coincidentally), or the BAE (about $5M).  So the options exist, but there are limitations.

They could dump Hauser's contract and free up an additional $10M, but it would be hard to use all of that just through FA signings.  In a trade, Hauser can go out and the TPE can be used on a player coming in, allowing BOS to take in a larger salary up to $27M.

[Phantom255x]

1. Trade for either Goga Bitzdale or Isaiah Stewart (Hauser + picks), fit into TPE as needed

2. Sign Timelord, Nurkic, Porzingis or Mamu using MLE

3. Add another guard or wing via small trade or signing. Possible names: Grimes, Simons, Melton or Sexton.

What are people's thoughts?

I personally would love Coby White or Ayo Dosunmu but it's probably not realistic given they will command 18-20M+ AAV. The 4 others I listed seem more realistic, but if you could work a way to acquire Ayo or Coby White and stay under the repeater tax with the other moves I'm all for it.

I think your plan has us using the MLE twice, since there's no way any of those guards take the minimum.  And, that's about $35 million or so in new salary, which means we'd have to dump more than Hauser to stay under the first apron (which would be our hard cap).

I thought the Celtics had more going into the offseason, like about 30M to play with and that's even before the Hauser trade? If not, then I guess just cancel the 3rd thing, or find even cheaper options there. Stewart makes about 15M but Bitzdale makes just 7M if that's a factor too. 

I personally still think they need two big men additions. I'm probably in the minority who feels that way but it's hard not to look at the Sixers series with Embiid, and the playoffs in general and not feel they need to revamp the frontcourt. I think Hugo, Baylor, PP and probably even Harper can grow into their roles this season and help, but they need way better than Vucevic/Garza.

Yeah, you got it wrong.  They have roughly $15 million to play with.  They can use it a few different ways, such as by using the entire MLE, or by trading Hauser for someone who makes $15 million more and using the Simons TPE to absorb that contract (either in one deal or separate deals where Hauser goes to a third team).  But they can add only one significant salary.

Those numbers are assuming the Celtics stay below the luxury tax.  If they choose to exceed it, they have an additional $7 million to spend, but are subject to the hard cap, so they are never getting to $30 million in spending power.

TP, thanks. I must have gotten confused by a report somewhere else. Welp