This offseason is more about next offseason. With S&T still available to all teams for two years Magic won't be desperate to deal DH12 now.. I expect we will sign a couple Centers but no long term solution (Forget Chandler). Keep our solid bench guys like West & Green then sprinkle in a gamble like (Tmac, Redd, Josh Howard, etc). And result in another deep playoff run by C's, better than last yr.
I say BBD is gone, perhaps with something in return via S&T but probably not anything great. Green can take his minutes and has better upside. We need a couple backup Centers, I like Fesenko for his youth and D. Perhaps Pryzbilla @ min considering his knees. We could still use reduced midlevel to gamble on a scorer like Mike Redd or TMAC or split it between Center & swingman roles.
Rondo/West
Allen/Redd
Pierce/Green
KG/Green
O'Neal/Fesenko/Pryzbilla
Toss in Bradley, Moore, Brown & Johnson as rookies and you've got a roster folks. We won't win the East but I'd take that team to battle in playoffs - they could bang with best and have a punchers chance at a title.
It's summer of 2012 where is gets fun and we can take chances to get stars, not middling players like Tyson Chandler, Jason Richardson or Deandre Jordan of this year.
My next prediction is that we trade Rondo for a cheap young asset next year to open up room for two max players and sign Dwight Howard & one of the PG's (CP3 or D. Williams). The draft picks and rookies we have now combined with the rondo haul would give us ammo to offer in S&T and cap room to absorb max salaries. Any team losing those guys will want young assets and picks and the flexibility that goes with them in this new financial world, not expensive old vets like Gasol or injury prone players like Bynum... I like this team now, I like them in the future too, b/c even without signing DH we have the roster flexibility to do something big. Danny played it smart.
Topic: Celtics moves for 2011-12 offseason (Read 20385 times)