Official:-Spears Confirms Marquis coming to Boston (merged)

[celticinorlando]

well i have to give danny kudos..he got us a legit wing that can score. goodbye either giddens or walker...now resign baby and get watson

got here late tonight...who is mentioned in the sign and trade? please tell me it is tony and not scal

[Cajun Celtic]

well i have to give danny kudos..he got us a legit wing that can score. goodbye either giddens or walker...now resign baby and get watson

got here late tonight...who is mentioned in the sign and trade? please tell me it is tony and not scal

Scal was the name that was in the news links posted here.

[dark_lord]

this is awesome! 

[celticinorlando]

any chance scal get bought out and we can bring him back for cheap? i think scal is a great utility guy that can shoot the 3....

so i take it we are looking at a roster of this:

PG rondo, point TBA (i hope for watson)
SG ray, eddie tony and giddens
SF  PP, daniels, walker
PF KG, baby, scal (if bought out?)
C perk, sheed, one more big

[Fafnir]

any chance scal get bought out and we can bring him back for cheap? i think scal is a great utility guy that can shoot the 3....

so i take it we are looking at a roster of this:

PG rondo, point TBA (i hope for watson)
SG ray, eddie and giddens
SF  PP, daniels, walker
PF KG, baby, scal (if bought out?)
C perk, sheed, one more big

I doubt it, but you never know.

[celticinorlando]

so now what with baby? does he stay home...and i think they need one more big to round out the bench..think they can get by at the point with eddie, daniels and tony is need be

[Cman]

So it still seems unclear whether Daniels comes here via trade involving Scal or via LLE.

In either case, it seems like a decent signing.  Hill would have been better, but you take what you can get.  I know little about Daniels, but he seems a little similar to Tony Allen, although a better ball handler, but a worse defender.

If Scal is involved, I am hoping he is bought out and comes back to the Cs.

[HYPE.]

PERFECT! Now to sign Baby and acquire a PG. I just wish Marbury was back, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, right?

[celticinorlando]

i hope the pacers let him walk and we can keep both those expiring contracts...esp scal..i think scal can help this season...

[Goldstar88]

Herald reports this too.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view.bg?articleid=1185604&srvc=sports&position=1

[hpantazo]

so, is he better than Grant Hill, Anthony Parker, Matt Barnes, and Quinton Ross? From what people have said about him, he sounds like the ideal backup wing for this team.

He's better than Barnes and Ross. I think Parker and Hill are better players though, but not by a huge margin.

sounds good to me, he's also much younger than Parker and Hill, great signing

[snively]

I would have preferred Hill (better shooter, rebounder, help defender, more efficient playmaker) or Moon (lesser playmaker but better SF) but Daniels is a decent enough consolation prize and more reliable than any of our other wing options.  I believe this spells the end of TA in Boston.  Can't have 2 sub-Rondo jump shooters in the backcourt!

[celticinorlando]

so who does boston keep as insurance to daniels? walker, tony or giddens? i feel like they are going to keep pruitt, giddens and tony and end up sending scal and walker to the pacers...

which would leave boston two holes to address...1. resigning baby to be the primary #2 PF and getting a 4th big off the bench..which could be filled...

now if baby does walk...who does boston get as the #2 PF? joe smith? wilcox?

[screwedupmaniac]

So it still seems unclear whether Daniels comes here via trade involving Scal or via LLE.

In either case, it seems like a decent signing.  Hill would have been better, but you take what you can get.  I know little about Daniels, but he seems a little similar to Tony Allen, although a better ball handler, but a worse defender.

If Scal is involved, I am hoping he is bought out and comes back to the Cs.

actually, it'll either be the sign and trade or our biannual exception, which would leave us the LLE to use somewhere along the way (FA PG perhaps? or maybe a 5th big for the front court...)

edit: i learned something new today about the confusing finances of the NBA haha

[Lucky17]

so who does boston keep as insurance to daniels? walker, tony or giddens? i feel like they are going to keep pruitt, giddens and tony and end up sending scal and walker to the pacers...

which would leave boston two holes to address...1. resigning baby to be the primary #2 PF and getting a 4th big off the bench..which could be filled...

now is baby does walk...who does boston get as the #2 PF? joe smith? wilcox?

If Indiana is signing Watson, and already has payroll of north of $60 million thanks to the curious signing of Dahntay Jones, then I don't see why they'd also sign and trade Daniels to take back additional payroll. I'm betting they let Daniels walk, which means Boston uses up their LLE.

Daniels' arrival does beg the question: who's going to be replaced? I'd most like to hang onto Walker; Allen and Giddens are bigger expiring contracts (read: better trading chips).