Makes Celts better this year.
It does?
Sure it does. Thad Young is a better and more consistent offensive player than Sullinger. Much longer track record of putting up solid games, too.
One thing to consider also is that Young would eat more of our salary cap next off season than Sullinger would regardless of how much you end up paying Sully in the end.
This is a good point. My position on this is that I don't really care about the Celts' cap space. I don't think any major pieces are coming here in FA until we get a major piece by trade or the draft first.
Not sure if serious insofar as the proposed Young trade, but it made for a good laugh, I'll give you that.
I do, however, agree with you completely in regards to cap space. The argument before last summer, iirc, was that Boston has never had the cap space necessary to sign such high-level talents and that the results of the summer would settle the debate, and, surprise, surprise (sarcasm), no one, not even an excellent option like Wesley Matthews, came here, but people still cling to the notion that top-tier free agents will somehow be enticed to don the green, so whatever, lol.
There is another way to look at the situation, though, imo. Say that we trade Lee, Crowder, and Jerebko for Joe Johnson. Just hear me out on this one. We wouldn't be getting the Joe Johnson of even 2 years ago, but he'd easily be the best passer on our team and can also post up and come off picks, etc., just don't make him have to create his own shot all the time like Hollins still has him doing in Brooklyn. The idea here is more in terms of money, IF you want to go down that road, because, combined with Amir's deal, that's almost $37 off the books for next year, giving us around $30 million in cap space. That way, if we decide to trade for a guy making a lot of money, the salaries don't have to match, making things considerably easier for both sides, especially if the other team would be receiving expirings and/or guys still on rookie deals. Am I making any sense, money-wise?
