C's pursuing Cousins per Sam Smith

[Eddie20]

http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/nba-trade-deadline-approaching

Evan Turner: He remains an intriguing possibility with a relatively modest—under $4 million, which we know to be NBA throwaway money— contract as the Celtics continue to stack up draft picks and probably wouldn’t need a big one. They would probably like to deal Marcus Thornton, a pretty good reserve shooter who can win you a playoff game and is to be a free agent. The problem is salary matching in these deals and the length of contracts in return as bad teams want the cap room. Maybe Brandon Bass, another free agent but making almost $7 million. Gerald Wallace remains in Celtics jail with a contract for $10 million next season.

Enes Kanter: The Jazz’ young big man has been losing playing time to Rudy Gobert, who’ll come much cheaper. Kanter is a free agent and the Jazz has locked up Gordon Hayward, Alec Burks and Derrick Favors. He said he’d like to be traded. The Celtics have been most rumored chasing big men and the Bucks are said to be interested as well. Another Celtics’ big man rumor floating around during All-Star weekend has been their pursuit of All-Star DeMarcus Cousins. There is no indication he’s available from the team, but the speculation has been he and George Karl won’t work together and Karl wants to play faster without a low post center. So Boston is rumored to give it a try. Hey, who thought they would get Kevin Garnett? The Kings have been offering Jason Thompson around for most of the last two seasons and rarely used rookie Nik Stauskas. But that could change with Karl.

[hpantazo]

I'm glad to hear that at the very least we are actively chasing big men.

[GetLucky]

This rumor MUST have legs now. Sam Smith is the real deal. He has what, 4 Grammys?

[LarBrd33]

I'm glad to hear that at the very least we are actively chasing big men.

We've been trying to land big men since 2011.  We'll see what happens. 

FYI, I've seen several people dump on Sam Smith in the past.  Take what he says with a grain of salt.

[jpotter33]

This rumor MUST have legs now. Sam Smith is the real deal. He has what, 4 Grammys?

Haha TP

[Eddie20]

I'm glad to hear that at the very least we are actively chasing big men.

We've been trying to land big men since 2011.  We'll see what happens. 

FYI, I've seen several people dump on Sam Smith in the past.  Take what he says with a grain of salt.

I'v heard that of Sam Amico, but not of Smith. I would think the Smith news is pretty reliable. He's a longtime Bulls beat writer and apparently received the info during all-star weekend.

[pearljammer10]

As they should.

I give up anything not named Smart to get him.

[PhoSita]

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[Tr1boy]

sam who?

Kings will want Smart along with 2 or 3 1sts. 

No thanks

[fairweatherfan]

I'm sure Danny's trying whatever he can, and Cousins is the most attractive trade candidate out there right now.

I'm equally sure that Sacramento is at least going to give Karl-Cousins a shot before bailing on it, and unless the front office is much more dysfunctional and dumber than it seems, if they knew Karl didn't want to coach Cousins, they wouldn't have hired him.

[Roy H.]

Sam Smith just makes things up.  He, Peter May, and Peter Vecsey all did it / do it, and have all the credibility of Celtics Thug.

[Rosco917]

At least Danny is active.

There is no way this gets done without Smart being a main ingredient in the deal. When you have an asset like Cousins you try to pick the pockets of the interested teams. It doesn't make sense to include all our future building blocks in this deal, Cousins will just be unhappy playing on a terrible team.

Watch out Danny, Cousins will want a good team around him if he does come here.

[crownontherocks]

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[fairweatherfan]

Sam Smith just makes things up.  He, Peter May, and Peter Vecsey all did it / do it, and have all the credibility of Celtics Thug.

Given that he's basically just rumoring a rumor, I don't think making things up even factors in.  It doesn't even rise to the level of an "anonymous source says" report; if he heard one person mention something vaguely along those lines in any context, then poof - accurate reporting.

[Roy H.]

Sam Smith just makes things up.  He, Peter May, and Peter Vecsey all did it / do it, and have all the credibility of Celtics Thug.

Given that he's basically just rumoring a rumor, I don't think making things up even factors in.  It doesn't even rise to the level of an "anonymous source says" report; if he heard one person mention something vaguely along those lines in any context, then poof - accurate reporting.

Maybe technically accurate -- kind of like Sherrod Blakely, with all of his "the Celtics could be..." junk -- but worth reporting?