Wojnarowski Article. Is Pierce getting traded?

[getbanners]

1986-2007? Danny's already seen the results of not moving the previous big 3 as they aged and slowed down.  I'd rather not live through that again so everyone is open to trade and when they return I'll cheer like I did for the Chief when he came back and did for Perk last night and hope they play well every game they're not playing the C's.  Unless anyone wants a new version of Bagley, Day, McDaniels, Gamble and Knight again? Maybe a little Perv the Swerve? Some Waltah coming off the bench?  Been and done, don't need to do that again

[fairweatherfan]

No one finds it coincidental that in an article about Kendrick Perkins, that Wojo throws in a one liner about people questioning if the Celts were going to blow it up, mentions Pierce, then says a couple of lines regarding the C's future prospects and gives it a headline "Paul Pierce being traded?"?

No one else sees that this was just a chance to widen the reading audience by throwing out an unbelievable rumor while writing an article about Kendrick Perkins return which, if the article was labeled "Perk reunites with Celtics after game", no one would have read?

I believe he's telling the truth that teams have asked about Pierce, but yeah, he's hyping it up to increase pageviews. 

Bringing up an inflammatory or improbable point but shielding it with an "I'm just asking questions!" approach is a common journalistic technique.  In the news realm this is known as "Cavuto-ing"

[Rondo2287]

No one finds it coincidental that in an article about Kendrick Perkins, that Wojo throws in a one liner about people questioning if the Celts were going to blow it up, mentions Pierce, then says a couple of lines regarding the C's future prospects and gives it a headline "Paul Pierce being traded?"?

No one else sees that this was just a chance to widen the reading audience by throwing out an unbelievable rumor while writing an article about Kendrick Perkins return which, if the article was labeled "Perk reunites with Celtics after game", no one would have read?

I believe he's telling the truth that teams have asked about Pierce, but yeah, he's hyping it up to increase pageviews. 

Bringing up an inflammatory or improbable point but shielding it with an "I'm just asking questions!" approach is a common journalistic technique.  In the news realm this is known as "Cavuto-ing"

Or like this

[esel1000]

1986-2007? Danny's already seen the results of not moving the previous big 3 as they aged and slowed down.  I'd rather not live through that again so everyone is open to trade and when they return I'll cheer like I did for the Chief when he came back and did for Perk last night and hope they play well every game they're not playing the C's.  Unless anyone wants a new version of Bagley, Day, McDaniels, Gamble and Knight again? Maybe a little Perv the Swerve? Some Waltah coming off the bench?  Been and done, don't need to do that again

please no...

[Tone]

None of these trades are good or have a long term effect I would rather see Paul play his career out in Boston.

[Evantime34]

We aren't going to trade Paul for cap space or at a bargain price in the process of blowing it up. We will trade him for good young talent if we can get it. Nothing else.

[fairweatherfan]

No one finds it coincidental that in an article about Kendrick Perkins, that Wojo throws in a one liner about people questioning if the Celts were going to blow it up, mentions Pierce, then says a couple of lines regarding the C's future prospects and gives it a headline "Paul Pierce being traded?"?

No one else sees that this was just a chance to widen the reading audience by throwing out an unbelievable rumor while writing an article about Kendrick Perkins return which, if the article was labeled "Perk reunites with Celtics after game", no one would have read?

I believe he's telling the truth that teams have asked about Pierce, but yeah, he's hyping it up to increase pageviews. 

Bringing up an inflammatory or improbable point but shielding it with an "I'm just asking questions!" approach is a common journalistic technique.  In the news realm this is known as "Cavuto-ing"

Or like this

Yeah that's a huge attention-seeking troll of a headline, but the Cavuto technique would be more like "Are Obama's critics dumb?"  The Newsweek version is a question that states they are dumb and just asks why; the Cavuto form lets you say "I'm not saying they're dumb, I'm just asking questions!"

Anyway, to steer this away from Current Events territory, I know Portland has had interest in Pierce in the past; if we were to move him we'd have to get Batum, Matthews or both in return I think.  But I want the Captain to stay in green and I don't think things have gotten nearly so bad as to move him yet. 

Whether it made the team better or not, Danny would basically be firing himself by trading Pierce without him publicly demanding it.  The uproar would be unreal.

[green7]

yeah it's time to make some moves now this team  needs more youth and athleticism

[Fafnir]

Plus Matthews got paid already, and Batum will be looking to get paid this coming year.

If we're going to move Pierce and deal with the PR hit the deal needs to be a home run, not a single.

[The DarkPassenger]

If Danny wanted to move anybody first it'd be Ray Allen or Kevin Garnett or even Rajon Rondo. I think that trading Pierce would be a last resort, unless the package you get for him is unbelievable... which I doubt.

[fairweatherfan]

Plus Matthews got paid already, and Batum will be looking to get paid this coming year.

If we're going to move Pierce and deal with the PR hit the deal needs to be a home run, not a single.

Yeah...it makes me glad Oden's hurt and a UFA next year to boot, or Danny might just start to get tempted by a Batum/Oden/pick/filler kind of package.

[greenpride32]

Not sure how much stock I put in the trade part of that article.  Several contending teams inquired; are there even "several" contenting teams in the league this year?  I guess it never hurts to just ask and maybe some teams are hoping they can steal Pierce away for not much in return.  I just don't see him gettig moved, unless it's a blockbuster deal (meaning we get someone pretty significant in return).

[FrDrake]

None of these trades are good or have a long term effect I would rather see Paul play his career out in Boston.

A voice of reason!

[jambr380]

If Danny wanted to move anybody first it'd be Ray Allen or Kevin Garnett or even Rajon Rondo. I think that trading Pierce would be a last resort, unless the package you get for him is unbelievable... which I doubt.

I don't know, I mean if the Celtics can really get a knock out deal for Ray or KG then they would do it. The player or players they would get would have to be worth their contract (like a Josh Smith). Trading Pierce, as controversial as it may seem to be, actually does make sense since he will be eating up 16 mill of the salary cap next year, while Garnett, Ray, and JO are just going off the books anyway.

Personally, if we had to trade Pierce, I would be happy with a deal centered around Granger. Another thread a few days back had us netting D. Wright and D. Lee from Golden State for Pierce. That deal is the kind we would have to get on if it were available, but sounds a little too good to be true in terms of a swap of talent.

[csfansince60s]

I like the idea of the Nuggets as a trading partner, using S&Ts with the China connection players.

Something like Pierce and Dooling for Andre Miller, a S&Td Wilson Chandler, a S&Td JR Smith a S&Td Kenyon Martin and throw in the Birdman.

In effect, the Nuggets get Dooling and Pierce for Andre Miller and Chris Anderson.

We need Miller and Anderson until the reinforcements come back from China in March.