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Interest in Thornton
« on: January 14, 2015, 04:36:38 PM »

Offline nacceltic

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@SpearsNBAYahoo  ·  8m 8 minutes ago
The Celtics are getting a lot of interest in guard Marcus Thornton, but teams are concerned about his $8.6 million salary, a source said.

Will Danny pay some salary for a better deal?
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2015, 04:44:34 PM »

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Makes sense. All playoffs teams would like the security blanket of some instant offense off the bench. It's finding a trade fit that's the bigger issue, considering the Cs won't take back salary.

The Blazers are the first team that comes to mind for me.
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Re: Interest in Thornton
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2015, 04:48:22 PM »

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God bless Danny Ainge.

We are going to be really good down the road.
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2015, 04:50:11 PM »

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no one is trading for thorton . He will be bought out
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2015, 04:51:47 PM »

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Quote from: rondohondo on January 14, 2015, 04:50:11 PM
no one is trading for thorton . He will be bought out

He may end up on the Cs throughout the rest of the season and the Cs may let his contract expire, but he won't be bought out.
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Re: Interest in Thornton
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2015, 04:52:07 PM »

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Cant we give a team $1 million as part of a deal to help pay his salary?  Didn't we get cash in the Jeff Green deal?

Landry Fields and Greg Stiemsma gets the deal done with Toronto. Fields is barely playing at all for them, logged 0 minutes the last 2 games.

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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2015, 04:52:46 PM »

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Probably tough to find a contending team that has $6-7 million in expiring contracts of players who aren't producing to match up with Thornton.  If you've got that much salary tied up in deadweight roster space, you're probably not contending.

Not saying there aren't 1-2 teams out there, but Thornton is tough to match if Ainge won't take back future salaries.
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2015, 04:53:25 PM »

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Quote from: nacceltic on January 14, 2015, 04:36:38 PM
@SpearsNBAYahoo  ·  8m 8 minutes ago
The Celtics are getting a lot of interest in guard Marcus Thornton, but teams are concerned about his $8.6 million salary, a source said.

Will Danny pay some salary for a better deal?

LOL about "concern" about his salary. How concerned can you really be about an expiring contract halfway through the season? Posturing.

You either can make a deal work per the CBA, or you can't.
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Re: Interest in Thornton
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2015, 04:55:07 PM »

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Quote from: jay on January 14, 2015, 04:52:07 PM
Cant we give a team $1 million as part of a deal to help pay his salary?  Didn't we get cash in the Jeff Green deal?

Landry Fields and Greg Stiemsma gets the deal done with Toronto. Fields is barely playing at all for them, logged 0 minutes the last 2 games.

To me the two teams that make sense are Portland and Toronto. Portland in particular seems to lack a scoring spark. Toronto I can't believe didn't offer Field and a 2nd for Prince.
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Re: Interest in Thornton
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2015, 04:55:42 PM »

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Quote from: Lucky17 on January 14, 2015, 04:53:25 PM
Quote from: nacceltic on January 14, 2015, 04:36:38 PM
@SpearsNBAYahoo  ·  8m 8 minutes ago
The Celtics are getting a lot of interest in guard Marcus Thornton, but teams are concerned about his $8.6 million salary, a source said.

Will Danny pay some salary for a better deal?

LOL about "concern" about his salary. How concerned can you really be about an expiring contract halfway through the season? Posturing.

You either can make a deal work per the CBA, or you can't.


I think that's the concern.
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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2015, 05:00:19 PM »

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Portland has the contracts to do something for Bass or Thornton.  Do they have the motivation though? 

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=o5lrqdz
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« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2015, 05:01:49 PM »

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Quote from: Lucky17 on January 14, 2015, 04:53:25 PM
Quote from: nacceltic on January 14, 2015, 04:36:38 PM
@SpearsNBAYahoo  ·  8m 8 minutes ago
The Celtics are getting a lot of interest in guard Marcus Thornton, but teams are concerned about his $8.6 million salary, a source said.

Will Danny pay some salary for a better deal?

LOL about "concern" about his salary. How concerned can you really be about an expiring contract halfway through the season? Posturing.

You either can make a deal work per the CBA, or you can't.
I read this quote as teams have interest but they are going to wait until he is bought out.
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Re: Interest in Thornton
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2015, 05:03:48 PM »

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This seems like a captain obvious report by Spears. The Cavs were so concerned about Thornton's money that they gave up a promising young center and a first round pick just to get rid of him. I would think the Cs would be willing to send as much cash as is allowed in a trade since they would probably just buy Thornton out anyway, but I imagine the bigger problem is matching salaries and roster spots. An injured player and a 2nd would get this done.
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« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2015, 05:05:57 PM »

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Quote from: jay on January 14, 2015, 04:52:07 PM
Cant we give a team $1 million as part of a deal to help pay his salary?  Didn't we get cash in the Jeff Green deal?

Landry Fields and Greg Stiemsma gets the deal done with Toronto. Fields is barely playing at all for them, logged 0 minutes the last 2 games.

That trade works in the trade machine and makes sense.  It's basically dead weight with guys that hardly play for a legit rotation player in Thornton. You could argue Thornton is better than Bradley at times, and a big reason the Nets won a playoff series last year.  Maybe we an get a protected first than buy out at least 1 if not both players in return.
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« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2015, 05:06:10 PM »

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Quote from: whorod71 on January 14, 2015, 05:00:19 PM
Portland has the contracts to do something for Bass or Thornton.  Do they have the motivation though? 

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=o5lrqdz

There's always the Thomas Robinson / Meyers Leonard possibility (plus salary).

It really is too bad that the Knicks aren't better this year. We could have given them Bass, Thornton, and whoever else for that humongous Stoudemire expiring.
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