Celtics Sign Jason Terry (Multiple Reports)

[ausbacker]

I hope this is true!  

I bet this makes it easier for Ray to start as avery and jet can be a great combo duo,

also, Dallas is probably trying to free his cap hold as he earned 11 mil last year.  They may have encouraged him to sign elsewhere so they can go for Howard?

finally some bench firepower!

I was thinking the same thing if we really want Ray and there's a chance he stays with us we have to offer him the starting job. Then you have Terry backup Rondo and Bradley back up Ray that would be pretty [dang] solid.

No, avery bradley is our starter and if ray can't accept that he needs to walk. He won't be starting in miami either.

If Ray wants minutes, he'll get more with Boston than Miami. If Ray wants a championship, the Heat are better placed than the Celtics. If Ray wants money, neither is a good fit.

[tyrone biggums]

I hope this is true!  

I bet this makes it easier for Ray to start as avery and jet can be a great combo duo,

also, Dallas is probably trying to free his cap hold as he earned 11 mil last year.  They may have encouraged him to sign elsewhere so they can go for Howard?

finally some bench firepower!

I was thinking the same thing if we really want Ray and there's a chance he stays with us we have to offer him the starting job. Then you have Terry backup Rondo and Bradley back up Ray that would be pretty [dang] solid.

No, avery bradley is our starter and if ray can't accept that he needs to walk. He won't be starting in miami either.

Something tells me that if Ray resigns he will be starting opening night...

[Mike-Dub]

So is their any truth to Spear's report that the Mavs have  decided to not match Terry's deal with the C's or not?

[cltc5]

So is their any truth to Spear's report that the Mavs have  decided to not match Terry's deal with the C's or not?

yea, whats the hold up here?

[Eddie20]

So is their any truth to Spear's report that the Mavs have  decided to not match Terry's deal with the C's or not?

yea, whats the hold up here?

They have to wait until the 11th to officially sign.

Looks like it's a done deal though:

Jason Terry has not formally agreed to the three-year, more than $15-million deal the Boston Celtics have offered, but it's probably only a matter of time before he does.

Terry planned to give the Dallas Mavericks, the team he's played for the past eight seasons and won a championship with in 2011, a chance to match. But those hopes have seemed to evaporate.

Mavs president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson, moments after Deron Williams broke the news that he will re-sign with the Brooklyn Nets, all but bid Terry farewell.

"What Jet did for this city and franchise will never be forgotten," Nelson said. "He's one of the greatest clutch performers in the history of our game and even a better person. We wish him nothing but the very best."

[celticinorlando]

Sounds like Dallas and jet won't be dealing.

[sofutomygaha]

If Ray wants minutes, he'll get more with Boston than Miami. If Ray wants a championship, the Heat are better placed than the Celtics. If Ray wants money, neither is a good fit.

I don't understand. Why do you think he gets more minutes with the [deeper] celtics? Also, do you think that another team will offer him more than $6M per year? That's rl good money for a guy his age...

[esel1000]

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/mavericks/post/_/id/4690536/deron-williams-rejects-mavs-heads-to-brooklyn

We offered a 3 year deal. Mavs dont want to offer 3 years. In a way, this deal is sort of like the Ray Allen one backwards for us. I think the Mavs offered him 2 years at 6 million or something like that, we offered the MLE 3 years at 5. He's taking ours Williams or not, the Mavs wont give him 3

[mloyko]

Good find looks like we won't be left at the alter this time.

[mloyko]

Chris Tomasson
Also in Miami Heat
Free agent guard Jason Terry today said he’s still “solidifying a deal'' with Boston, but obviously that's where he'll end up.

Chris Tomasson
Also in Miami Heat
While Jason Terry said Tuesday he would welcome playing with Ray Allen on the Celtics, he said today he doesn’t know what Allen will do. “I have no idea,’’ Terry said of Allen, a free agent who will visit Miami on Thursday and the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.

Chris Tomasson
Jason Terry said today it "definitely won’t be Dallas’’ where he plays next season. “They didn’t offer,’’ said Terry, who said he never got a contract offer from the Mavericks, the team he played for from 2004-12 and helped lead a title to in 2011.

[Celts Fan 92]

wow they aint even offer him a contract, cold blooded

[mctyson]

This would be awesome news.

Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in...I saw this flash across the TV at 11 pm last night and I did a abbreviated happy dance.  I think it is a perfect fit for us.  The comps to Eddie House are exactly what I was thinking, except that Terry is much better.

[Lord of Mikawa]

wow they aint even offer him a contract, cold blooded

It's a shame. Without Jet, they don't win that title in 2011.