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Another brilliant move by Ainge.A decent young center, a first round pick, and cap space for next summer.All for practically nothing.
Quote from: Chris22 on July 09, 2014, 04:00:21 PMAnother brilliant move by Ainge.A decent young center, a first round pick, and cap space for next summer.All for practically nothing.No additional cap space was acquired in this deal.In fact assuming we exercise Zeller's fourth year option (if it hasn't been already) we're going to lose a small amount of cap space from this deal.Also it wasn't for nothing, eating 8 million dollars in salary is definitely a cost. It just didn't cost the team any basketball assets just payroll dollars.
Quote from: Fafnir on July 09, 2014, 04:07:39 PMQuote from: Chris22 on July 09, 2014, 04:00:21 PMAnother brilliant move by Ainge.A decent young center, a first round pick, and cap space for next summer.All for practically nothing.No additional cap space was acquired in this deal.In fact assuming we exercise Zeller's fourth year option (if it hasn't been already) we're going to lose a small amount of cap space from this deal.Also it wasn't for nothing, eating 8 million dollars in salary is definitely a cost. It just didn't cost the team any basketball assets just payroll dollars.Thornton's expiring $8.5 million dollar contract could free up more cap space next summer.
Quote from: Chris22 on July 09, 2014, 04:13:19 PMQuote from: Fafnir on July 09, 2014, 04:07:39 PMQuote from: Chris22 on July 09, 2014, 04:00:21 PMAnother brilliant move by Ainge.A decent young center, a first round pick, and cap space for next summer.All for practically nothing.No additional cap space was acquired in this deal.In fact assuming we exercise Zeller's fourth year option (if it hasn't been already) we're going to lose a small amount of cap space from this deal.Also it wasn't for nothing, eating 8 million dollars in salary is definitely a cost. It just didn't cost the team any basketball assets just payroll dollars.Thornton's expiring $8.5 million dollar contract could free up more cap space next summer.No. That's "cap space" that was available with or without him.
Quote from: BudweiserCeltic on July 09, 2014, 04:14:25 PMQuote from: Chris22 on July 09, 2014, 04:13:19 PMQuote from: Fafnir on July 09, 2014, 04:07:39 PMQuote from: Chris22 on July 09, 2014, 04:00:21 PMAnother brilliant move by Ainge.A decent young center, a first round pick, and cap space for next summer.All for practically nothing.No additional cap space was acquired in this deal.In fact assuming we exercise Zeller's fourth year option (if it hasn't been already) we're going to lose a small amount of cap space from this deal.Also it wasn't for nothing, eating 8 million dollars in salary is definitely a cost. It just didn't cost the team any basketball assets just payroll dollars.Thornton's expiring $8.5 million dollar contract could free up more cap space next summer.No. That's "cap space" that was available with or without him.Not true.In addition, Boston will have over $32 million in salary coming off the books next summer (Rondo, Bass, Thornton, and Anthony), making them a prime option to sign top free agents in 2015.http://www.celticsblog.com/2014/7/9/5883941/boston-celtics-acquire-tyler-zeller-cleveland-cavaliers-analysis-thornton-first-nba