REPORT! Celtics signs Gilbert Brown

[Chris]

The signing may be inevitable, but I'm 99% sure that teams still can't sign free agents, or even agree to terms with them, yet.

TP for the update.

That reporter is about to cost himself some good will with the team when they are fined for talking to players too early. Hope it's not a guaranteed contract.

Correct me if I'm wrong, teams were allowed to speak to players starting yesterday.

Yes, but you can't sign anybody. The new CBA isn't even in effect yet so I don't know how we could have signed him. The NBPA will vote and agree to the new CBA sometime tomorrow, according to the reports.

Yeah, which is why I am sure nothing official has been agreed upon.  And lets not kid ourselves here, no team is going to be fined based on a report like this from some reporter.  The NBA knows as well as anyone that subtleties are lost on the majority of NBA beat writers these days.

[j804]

Yea ummm who, any vids or something on the kid?

[Chris]

Yea ummm who?

I think we should just lock the thread, and let this sum it up.

[jarufu]

Biceps the size of my head . . Danny considered drafting ahead of moore in the second round . . . That guy?

Couldn't hurt.

[fairweatherfan]

I remember Gilbert a little from his time at Pittsburgh.  Hard-nosed guy, tenacious defender and rebounder, but no great shakes scoring-wise, though he could hit the college 3 pretty well. 

Don't know how much he could contribute to the actual games, but at the very least he'll get the energy up at practice. 

[Celts Fan 92]

Yea ummm who, any vids or something on the kid?

Only vid i could find besides single dunks dude has a good first step nd a decent midrange game from wat I could see in the vid sample oh yea the music in the vid has cussing nd Brown's part is from 3:20 til the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMVpJxoi6y0

[celticinorlando]

must be our big signing this offseason! at least it isn't daniels

[erisred]

He has been playing in Germany. Here is a summary of his stats.

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SUMMARY
G..MIN..PTS..2FGP..3FGP..FT..RO..RD..RT..AS..PF..BS..ST..TO
8  90   34   9-17  2-9 10-16  9   5  14   5  11   2   2   7
8  11.3 4.3 52.9% 22.2% 62.5% 1.1 0.6 1.8 0.6 1.4 0.3 0.3 0.9


[Neurotic Guy]

What up Yall!

Lets get straight to the news!;

"According to CSNNE's Carolyn Manno and A. Sherrod Blakely, the Celtics have signed free-agent SF Gilbert Brown of Pitt. Manno tweeted the news about 30 minutes ago, and followed with another message stating that Brown would arrive in Boston tonight or tomorrow and would be in camp on Friday."

This is a great signing ! I really liked this guy and he could very well end up being a "Poor mans" Tony Allen!
This btw also gives us younger legs!

A poor man's TA? Wow! I couldn't be less impressed!  

I guess I'd be OK with a middle class man's TA.  A less affluent TA borders on bankruptcy. 

[nickagneta]

Let the undrafted rookie and veteran minimum signings begin because that's probably all we will see this off season, well, aside from this little trade thing for Chris Paul.

[Gomesfan]

They didn't sign anyone, they invited him to camp.

[dmny5000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDgCxEXYdlk

This is the best video I've seen on him. He put the link up on twitter. Over 8 minutes of him and just to warn anyone with children around there's profanity.