Marbury "not closing the door on the celtics"

[vitaminC]

For some reason Marbury thought he could get more money than he's currently worth...so initially, he turned down the Celtics offer and looked elsewhere. No one seems to be interested in giving him more than we offered, so I understand his change of heart.

Didn't we take our offer to him off the table? I wouldn't be surprised if we offered him the LLE. It doesn't appear he's burned any bridges with the Celtics.

I'd be happy to have him as our backup pg in order to let house concentrate on shooting the ball...

[bucknersrevenge]

Again, I'm okay with Starbury coming back, if it's for the minimum.

Agreed. If and only if Pruitt goes in the Daniels deal I'd be okay with Steph coming back for the vet minimum ONLY. anything else and I'm good with this ship sailing on.

[SSFan V]

I'll take Marbury at the LLE.

It's looking like this

Perkins
Kevin
Paul
Ray
Rondo

Bench (1st wave)
House
Wallace
Daniels
Marbury
Davis

Bench depth
Scal
Gibbens

I'd take this ten out of ten times

[Scalablob990]

They should really try to bring him back at the end when we've fixed the baby problem and the SF issue is resolved. Marbury I think still has enough left in the tank to contribute. It would be my dream for them to nab Marbury and then re-sign Powe in February, but again that's 90% unrealistic.

[Cman]

I'll take Marbury at the LLE.

It's looking like this

Perkins
Kevin
Paul
Ray
Rondo

Bench (1st wave)
House
Wallace
Daniels
Marbury
Davis

Bench depth
Scal
Gibbens

I'd take this ten out of ten times

For sure, that is a very good 12 man rotation.

Only thing I wonder is whether Sacto would still bite at a Tony+Scal+Walker trade for Nocioni.

Then your bench would be:

House
Daniels
Nocioni
Baby
Sheed

(assuming, as you did, that Baby is back in Green; also assuming Daniels would be content taking the LLE, as reported).

That bench looks better than the bench you have above (IMHO), but Cs lose out on Scal.

[vitaminC]

Again, I'm okay with Starbury coming back, if it's for the minimum.

Agreed. If and only if Pruitt goes in the Daniels deal I'd be okay with Steph coming back for the vet minimum ONLY. anything else and I'm good with this ship sailing on.

I wish he would take the minimum, I just doubt he would after suggesting that our offer this summer wasn't enough. I think we would have to give him a fraction more to convince him to come back....it would be hard to come back just because he couldn't find anything else (considering he has an ego). But I think he could justify it if the contract got just slightly sweeter.

It would be nice to use the LLE on something else though, I know thats true.

[WeMadeIt17]

Perhaps thats why Danny is doing a Sign And Trade? He believes Steph can help out this team and see's no one giving him any money and he says you know what here is 1.9 mill take it or leave it and you can play with us and be apart of a championship team.

[SSFan V]

I'll take Marbury at the LLE.

It's looking like this

Perkins
Kevin
Paul
Ray
Rondo

Bench (1st wave)
House
Wallace
Daniels
Marbury
Davis

Bench depth
Scal
Gibbens

I'd take this ten out of ten times

For sure, that is a very good 12 man rotation.

Only thing I wonder is whether Sacto would still bite at a Tony+Scal+Walker trade for Nocioni.

Then your bench would be:

House
Daniels
Nocioni
Baby
Sheed

(assuming, as you did, that Baby is back in Green; also assuming Daniels would be content taking the LLE, as reported).

That bench looks better than the bench you have above (IMHO), but Cs lose out on Scal.

I've never heard Sacramento mentioned in legit trade rumors -- where's it been posted? I'd love to read it (rumor junkie)

I am just putting the pieces together of what's rumored.

[vagrantwade]

He has mentioned in the past few days that him turning down the offer was more personal than people think.

Not going to try to read too much into to that, but I don't think the amount of money was the big deal. I honestly don't think he was ever under the impression that he would be getting more than the minimum.

I have a feeling there was stipulation when the Celtics made the offer that he was made aware that if they were to find (Y) player, they would rescind the offer.

As a raging Marbury fan I could care less either way. I have always been a Marbury and Celtics fan simultaneously, because I have always played PG in highschool and college, and in the mid 90's him and Iverson were the PG to watch. But I never liked a team he played for. I do think he would be a much better option at backup than anyone else realistically though.

[Evantime34]

Please come back to us Marbury.

[timepiece33]

Perhaps thats why Danny is doing a Sign And Trade? He believes Steph can help out this team and see's no one giving him any money and he says you know what here is 1.9 mill take it or leave it and you can play with us and be apart of a championship team.

Could be Steph.  Maybe he has another G in mind (Carlos Delfino).  Either way, it does appear that he has somebody in mind for the LLE.

[Brickowski]

Please go to Siberia, Marbury and never come back.

The reason he's leaving the door open is that no one else wants him. Even the Siberians watch videotape.

[mgent]

No LLE.
I would be offering to give him more than 1 year though, I'm sure he's good for it.  Maybe that's all he wants, I've never heard him say a price.

[Cman]

I'll take Marbury at the LLE.

It's looking like this

Perkins
Kevin
Paul
Ray
Rondo

Bench (1st wave)
House
Wallace
Daniels
Marbury
Davis

Bench depth
Scal
Gibbens

I'd take this ten out of ten times

For sure, that is a very good 12 man rotation.

Only thing I wonder is whether Sacto would still bite at a Tony+Scal+Walker trade for Nocioni.

Then your bench would be:

House
Daniels
Nocioni
Baby
Sheed

(assuming, as you did, that Baby is back in Green; also assuming Daniels would be content taking the LLE, as reported).

That bench looks better than the bench you have above (IMHO), but Cs lose out on Scal.

I've never heard Sacramento mentioned in legit trade rumors -- where's it been posted? I'd love to read it (rumor junkie)

I am just putting the pieces together of what's rumored.

This is from a Feb. trade deadline rumor.  The idea was that Nocioni had a bad contract, Sacto, a rebuilding team, could use the cap space.  It was unclear whether Boston or Sacto backed out.  I believe BBD was included in the original deal with TA and Scals and that Boston backed out.

[Brickowski]

He ought to be paying the Celtics the MLE(at least) for the privilege of taking a roster spot from someone who can actually play.