Players that should be on the celts radar

[kozlodoev]

Players that should be on the Celtics radar: Rajon Rondo, Avery Bradley, Jared Sullinger, Fab Melo. Oh, and of course, Kevin Garnett.

[saltlover]

I don't think the Cs need anyone else right now. I just want to see the current group play together.

Barring any major trades, the team as currently constructed is basically the team for the next two years (given how little $$$ the team will have to play with next offseason).  I'm fine with this, and I want to see the results...  I'm particularly excited about seeing what Sullinger can do.

The team may have a decent amount of money to play with next off-season.  The salary cap was held artificially lower this season due to the lockout/CBA.  It was written into the CBA that this year would be the same cap as last year's if the owners and players couldn't agree on the projected BRI for this season.  Shockingly, they couldn't agree.  (Who would've seen that coming?!)  But next year, if they can't agree, it will be an automatic 4.5% bump from this year's BRI, which will be from a full season.  While we don't know what this year's BRI will be, they wrote projections into the CBA, and if they use those projections, the hard cap would jump to $83.9 million.  This would give us more than enough room to use both the full MLE and the BAE.  If it misses by a little, we might not be able to use the BAE, but it would have to miss by a lot to cost us both the BAE and the big MLE.

That said, I'm also excited about what the team presently looks like.

[testy]

Has anyone heard about PP to chicago, SI ?

[gar]

Would rather see Terrence Williams than Rob Kurz; but maybe he is headed to Maine along with Fab.

[BDubs]

Will NO take a pick and Jason Collins for Jason Smith?

You would really give away a 1st round pick for a 3rd string center?

[bfrombleacher]

Will NO take a pick and Jason Collins for Jason Smith?

You would really give away a 1st round pick for a 3rd string center?

A second round pick.

[BDubs]

Will NO take a pick and Jason Collins for Jason Smith?

You would really give away a 1st round pick for a 3rd string center?

A second round pick.

That doesn't sound bad, but I think people got Smith a little overrated lately.  He only put up decent numbers last year because New Orleans was horrible and didn't have any other healthy big men most the year because Okafor and Kaman missed so many game.

[testy]

PP & Sully for L deng, T Gibson & J Butller. Not crazy about this one.

[mgent]

1. Andersen
2. Darko
3. Kmart
4a. Wallace
4b. Blatche

[pearljammer10]

Has anyone heard about PP to chicago, SI ?

Huh?




Kmart should be the last player we show interest in. I think we make a run at him in February after seeing what we need for the playoffs. I think the lineup you see is pretty much set for camp.