Trey Murphy fits TPE. Finacial implications?

[Celtics4ever]

Giannis in a deal involving White and Hauser.

This is not a video game, in the real world you could not get him for these assets.  It would take Brown to get him and parts.

I fear it would take Brown to move the dial.

Brown for Murray, Murphy and Missi with us getting draft capital would be the least I would take for Brown and even then I feel we are getting the raw end of the deal.  They do not have a first this year.

Murray is not the efficient on offense so that is very much a poison pill to swallow.  Missi is talented but raw but the potential is there.

The trouble is these guys do not know what it would take to win.

The real question is would  this deal help or hurt our window?  I think hurt.  But is Wemby is healthy maybe it is all in vain.

[Celtics2021]

Giannis in a deal involving White and Hauser.

This is not a video game, in the real world you could not get him for these assets.  It would take Brown to get him and parts.

I fear it would take Brown to move the dial.

Brown for Murray, Murphy and Missi with us getting draft capital would be the least I would take for Brown and even then I feel we are getting the raw end of the deal.  They do not have a first this year.

Murray is not the efficient on offense so that is very much a poison pill to swallow.  Missi is talented but raw but the potential is there.

The trouble is these guys do not know what it would take to win.

The real question is would  this deal help or hurt our window?  I think hurt.  But is Wemby is healthy maybe it is all in vain.

I literally called that idea less probable than a Murphy trade in the following sentence, and I already I do not think Murphy will be traded.  So less probable than something that I think will not happen.  I am not sure why you feel the need to cherry-pick around that qualifier and then criticize it as if I had not made such a qualifier.

[Celtics4ever]

All I did was quote one of your comments.  You also mentioned Hauser and White for Murphy, too.


I personally, think this is not going to happen.  whenever did Brad Stevens show his hand with a leak.   This is Pelican jockeying for a better offer using us.

[Vermont Green]

I am not sure I understand what people are debating.  I believe it is correct that Murphy's contract (exactly $27M) could be absorbed in the $27.7M TPE that BOS has.  But this TPE is from a trade last season so it can only be used if the team is below the first apron.  BOS is not $27M under the first apron (more like $21M) so BOS would need to send back enough to be under after the trade.  That could be done with either Hauser or Pritchard.  BOS would be hard capped at the first apron, and left with very little flexibility, but this trade could work.

But there is no way that NOP would do this version of a trade with BOS.  They could get way better deals.  Having the $27.7M TPE does give BOS a very useful tool to make a deal with NOP, but something like Pritchard and picks is not likely to be enough to get Murphy.

I think all this chatter out there is based on the belief that NOP wants Brown.  I don't know if that is true or not but it seems reasonable.  There is also chatter that NOP is looking to trade Murphy to save money.  I find this to be less believable.  That NOP would be willing to trade Murphy to get a player like Brown, sure, but not for Pritchard in a cost saving deal.   Murphy is not nearly enough to get Brown of course, not in player value and NOP would have to send out more salary, so trade ideas go from there.