The Celtics were just sold to a new owner, and given their cap situation, they will likely want to drop some salary. Should we look to trade for Brown this offseason?
Not ready for the trade threads yet, we can reasses after we win the'ship this year during the offseason.
They're not trading Brown obviously haha. It's been known for a year it will be Holiday or Porzingis. Also, if they trade Brown to us and we send back salary, how will they save money? This is not a situation where they need to save 10%. They need to dump a good $30m to a team with cap space. Most likely Holiday since they have decent backups at guard, because if they trade Porzingis and Horford retires they're dead upfront. Only Brooklyn has a lot of cap space. Detroit can wiggle their way into $30-40m. I think most likely scenario is Holiday to Pistons for 2nd rounders. Pistons won't pay a first with the market so depleted and Holiday's 3 remaining years at over 34 years old.
The Celts could show that the transition of ownership could go over smoothly without any ripple effects.
He's shooting 31% from three this season and getting paid an average annual value of $59M over the next four years. Overrated, overhyped, overpaid. Bad combo.
This! He has one of the worst 2-3 contracts in the league. The Rockets don't need Brown either. Would you trade Tari & Bari for Brown? Or Amen? Now if the Celtics start shopping Tatum, I might be interested.
The guy who bought it is a massssiiive Celtics fan. Super passionate and kind of a history nerd on the team. Apparently hes posted on the local team forums as well. Im not sure hes gonna come in rocking the boat at all. Its most likely Jrue gotta go, they are just gonna have to pay a premium to trade him. Brooklyn is the only true team able to absorb a huge contract like that without sending out salary and they are on the hunt for assets for their rebuild and Boston aint got much to deal. They are gonna have to make a tough decision this off-season win or lose.
It would depend on the trade. Is Boston willing to add 2-3 unprotected 1sts? Can they even do that with the whole frozen picks stuff?
I kinda want to see Boston lose in the playoffs. Then trade Jaylen Brown to Phoenix for Durant. Makes both teams worse but they both would feel better lol
I think the new harder cap probably makes it very difficult for Boston to keep two SuperMax contracts(taking up 70% of their cap space) and still field a solid roster. That said, by all accounts the new owner is a super fan so I think it's more likely they attempt to find ways to work around it given how good both Tatum and Brown are. I doubt it will be easy but it's far more logical that they dump a guy like Holiday than Brown. I think the other thing we are discovering is - SuperMax contracts are increasingly difficult to trade because very few teams have THAT much cap space to absorb contracts of that size. At the same time the new CBA was putting in place stiffer penalties to over the cap teams, they were ALSO putting in place penalties to under cap teams and as a result, you aren't going to find a lot of teams with either 35% of their cap space available to just absorb a big contract nor will Boston have enough open roster spots to trade Brown for multiple players. It's all possible, but the likelihood is just very small to find two teams with both the right conditions AND who are motivated by some advantage a deal would give.
It's difficult because brown isn't close to a supermax worthy player. If this was shai or luka or jokic or some other legit supermax level guy, there would be conversation.
I think Brown is a good player but the fact that he’s on a super max means he’s not worth trading assets for. With the 2nd apron player salaries matter more than ever and if you are not an MVP level player paying the super max is a bad contract that kills your cap future and straight jackets you in.
