Chris Forsberg reports on TE gained in Nets trade

[Lucky17]

God, I hope his math is right. I won't spoil it for you; read it yourself.

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/celtics/post/_/id/4706114/the-secret-gem-in-cs-nets-trade

If true, wow.

[celticpride07]

quite an asset if thats true, a  10.3mil trade exception!

[esel1000]

Wow he better be right... That would be unbelievably helpful next off season

[clover]

Well, well, well.

Nice move, Danny.

[BudweiserCeltic]

That would be incredibly awesome if true.

[aingeforthree]

Holy Smokes!!

Nice Job Danny !

[BleedGreen1989]

Wow. Well done Danny...

[Birdman]

cool!!! As long they dont go over the luxuary tax and it expires on July 12, 2014

[Kane3387]

What's the terms on the picks? Are all of these protected?

[hpantazo]

awesome news if true, we are in great shape

[lightspeed5]

if you read the article, danny ainge is basically a genius.

[aingeforthree]

What's the terms on the picks? Are all of these protected?

The draft picks are unprotected...We also can swap picks with Brooklyn in 2017 if we want to.

Helluva trade by Danny...

[Roy H.]

While I wouldn't describe the trade exception as "insanely valuable" like Forsberg does, it does have a lot of value.  We've seen teams like Cleveland and Utah gain assets for absorbing other teams' unwanted salary, and there's a chance that this can be used.

The value is mitigated to some degree because at least for this season, the team is unlikely to want to add salary.  Come draft time and early next summer, though, Danny could use this to add more to the deal.

I didn't like the trade for two reasons: 1) I thought the Celtics should reload, and 2) I didn't think the Celtics got good value.  The trade exception could potentially help a lot with #2.

[LooseCannon]

The Celtics could theoretically trade the expiring contract of Brandon Bass and the unguaranteed contract of Keith Bogans as trade ballast to be sent with draft picks for a max contract guy (possibly in a S&T), then use the trade exception to acquire a guy making up to $10m in a salary dump from another team (take a long look at players being signed to contracts this summer whose teams may regret the deal next summer and be looking to shed salary), and possibly be far enough under the apron to use the full MLE to add a veteran to Rondo/Bradley/Green/Sullinger/Olynyk/Faverani/Wallace/2014 draft picks (a young player or pick may be needed to sign the potential max contract guy).

A one-year rebuild is possible.

[Kane3387]

What's the terms on the picks? Are all of these protected?

The draft picks are unprotected...We also can swap picks with Brooklyn in 2017 if we want to.

Helluva trade by Danny...

For some reason I thought next years pick was contingent on Atlanta.

Also the 2014 free agent class is pretty bad unless guys opt out.