Chris Haynes: There’s a growing belief Kyrie won’t resign in Boston

[Tr1boy]

again the million dollar question is.... who leaked this out

[bknova]

again the million dollar question is.... who leaked this out

Rich Paul, because he needs New Orleans to believe that Boston will not put Tatum or Brown on the table.  The Lakers cannot win a bidding war in the summer with these assets.  If New Orleans waits till the summer, he almost certainly does not become a Laker.  Lebron needs a trade now, otherwise there's no AD.  This is pretty obvious.

[Tr1boy]

It would be kind of funny if Scary Terry leaked this

all kidding aside

this is going to an interesting journey to this years trade deadline

[celticsclay]

The way that is worded I can't even say what he is saying.

[konkmv]

Davis hired rich paul... paul wants him with the lakers..
Bad choice for a 25 year old star to choose a team of an almost 40 year old super star to win it all.. your winning years will be the 2 or 3.. and you got the warriors in front of you..
Excellent choice of manager

[Tr1boy]

again the million dollar question is.... who leaked this out

Rich Paul, because he needs New Orleans to believe that Boston will not put Tatum or Brown on the table.  The Lakers cannot win a bidding war in the summer with these assets.  If New Orleans waits till the summer, he almost certainly does not become a Laker.  Lebron needs a trade now, otherwise there's no AD.  This is pretty obvious.

Rich Paul leaks this and what Haynes nods his head and says thank you....let me share?

I can't see Haynes being that naive

Though if it came from Lebron (who recently spoke to Irving)....

[bdm860]

The 6-foot-10 All-Star desires to play in a big market that’s committed to winning, sources said.

Is this part just a reach? At first it appears to be a source, as it links to another article, but when you read the supposed source, it's really just a "woe is the small market teams because they can't keep their stars."  Has Davis come out and said he wants to play for a large market?

[RJ87]

again the million dollar question is.... who leaked this out

Rich Paul, because he needs New Orleans to believe that Boston will not put Tatum or Brown on the table.  The Lakers cannot win a bidding war in the summer with these assets.  If New Orleans waits till the summer, he almost certainly does not become a Laker.  Lebron needs a trade now, otherwise there's no AD.  This is pretty obvious.

Rich Paul leaks this and what Haynes nods his head and says thank you....let me share?

I can't see Haynes being that naive

Though if it came from Lebron (who recently spoke to Irving).... then I may worry a tad

That's exactly how this works, though. You play ball with agents so that they leak things to you later and you get to break news. That's how the game works.

Also of note, Kyrie and AD are close friends. I don't know if there's truth to this rumor, but I do believe AD would have inside info on Kyrie's thought process.

[GreenFaith1819]

That's why I'm thankful that we have Danny Ainge as our GM.

I'm certain he is on top of ALL of this...more than likely knows what rumors are true / what isn't.

He will NOT hamstring this franchise for ANY player and will do what is best for BOSTON.

"WE" are in the driver's seat here - "IF" AD goes to the Lakers then he simply wasn't MEANT for BOS.

Same with Kyrie - even though it'd bother me if he reneged on his WORD..

Either way Danny's prepared - I'm sure - for any contingency.

[celticinorlando]

What a wild turn this franchise would take if Kyrie left and AD did not come.

It would then be the young guys team for sure...esp if they added 3 more high level rookies in this year's draft. And Gordon. Can't forget Hayward.

[Tr1boy]

again the million dollar question is.... who leaked this out

Rich Paul, because he needs New Orleans to believe that Boston will not put Tatum or Brown on the table.  The Lakers cannot win a bidding war in the summer with these assets.  If New Orleans waits till the summer, he almost certainly does not become a Laker.  Lebron needs a trade now, otherwise there's no AD.  This is pretty obvious.

Rich Paul leaks this and what Haynes nods his head and says thank you....let me share?

I can't see Haynes being that naive

Though if it came from Lebron (who recently spoke to Irving).... then I may worry a tad

That's exactly how this works, though. You play ball with agents so that they leak things to you later and you get to break news. That's how the game works.

and if it doesn't happen and Irving resign...stating it was his intention all along??

Haynes rep takes a little nosedive

[PhoSita]

The way that is worded I can't even say what he is saying.

There’s a growing belief of uncertainty that Kyrie Irving will not re-sign with Boston

"There's a growing belief" = "Unspecified persons have expressed that their belief in the likelihood of something is increasing based on recent events"

"of uncertainty that Kyrie Irving will not re-sign with Boston" = "that it is no longer certain that Kyrie will be re-signing with Boston"

Thus:

"Unspecified persons have expressed their belief based on recent events that it is more and more likely that some unspecified people are no longer certain that Kyrie will be re-signing with Boston."


From the context, it makes the most sense to assume that "Unspecified persons" are NBA insiders outside of the Celtics organization and that the "uncertainty" is on the part of the Celtics organization.



In short:  Speculation by NBA people that the Celtics arent' sure that Kyrie will resign.


So you gotta ask -- what do NBA people have to gain by suggesting this to Haynes, given that AD just announced he wants a trade and Boston is the first team mentioned in every list of teams that will try to trade for him?

[PhoSita]

What a wild turn this franchise would take if Kyrie left and AD did not come.

It would then be the young guys team for sure...esp if they added 3 more high level rookies in this year's draft. And Gordon. Can't forget Hayward.

I think the plan would have to be to go super young plus Hayward and then hope Hayward can shine as the lead playmaker and secondary scorer (behind Tatum) next year.  Then maybe shop Hayward at the deadline in 2020.

[Tr1boy]

What a wild turn this franchise would take if Kyrie left and AD did not come.

It would then be the young guys team for sure...esp if they added 3 more high level rookies in this year's draft. And Gordon. Can't forget Hayward.

I think the plan would have to be to go super young plus Hayward and then hope Hayward can shine as the lead playmaker and secondary scorer (behind Tatum) next year.  Then maybe shop Hayward at the deadline in 2020.

don't forget a treasure of 1st round picks

I think also the Celts can get Beal

[RJ87]

again the million dollar question is.... who leaked this out

Rich Paul, because he needs New Orleans to believe that Boston will not put Tatum or Brown on the table.  The Lakers cannot win a bidding war in the summer with these assets.  If New Orleans waits till the summer, he almost certainly does not become a Laker.  Lebron needs a trade now, otherwise there's no AD.  This is pretty obvious.

Rich Paul leaks this and what Haynes nods his head and says thank you....let me share?

I can't see Haynes being that naive

Though if it came from Lebron (who recently spoke to Irving).... then I may worry a tad

That's exactly how this works, though. You play ball with agents so that they leak things to you later and you get to break news. That's how the game works.

and if it doesn't happen and Irving resign...stating it was his intention all along??

Haynes rep takes a little nosedive

Does it? That's the nature of the business - as a reporter, people are going to remember the stories you break more than speculation you got wrong. Case in point - you remembered he broke the Gordon Hayward news, but can you remember the last thing he said that didn't pan out?

And with the chemistry issues we've all seen, it's not far fetched to think Kyrie may second guess resigning here.