CELTICS 2010

Former #OkState guard Marcus Smart wins NBA Hustle Award

— Brian Brinkley (@BrianBrinkleyOK) June 25, 2019

oh god lagoon is causing this

The Celtics, I'm told, are emerging as a stealth suitor for Charlotte Hornets free agent Kemba Walker

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 25, 2019

hee

lol

kemba buzz baby

https://i.imgur.com/PsTb8fB.jpg

kemba is not that good tbh

i wld rather have stephen curry but i dont think hes available

hayward + memphis pick for steph who says no

kemba has profited statistically by being the number one option on a mediocre team, but the flip side of that is that he always draws most of the defensive attention from the opposing team every single night.

Tatum and Brown are very young but they're playoff tested, ready to make a run right now. league is wide open next year, if Kawhi leaves and the Bucks miss out on re-signing some of their guys I think a Boston team with Kemba and an Adams type might actually be the favorite, as much as it pains me to say.

man, I'm looking at their hoopshype page right now though and they definitely need a big more than a scorer. they have like zero even decent bigs under contract for next season.

ya, idk why they just let baynes walk like that

sounds like he asked for it, not that they needed to grant his wish.

It was sort of a favor. He opted in because it looked like they were bringing back/improving the team to contend. When Ainge and co had to switch to retooling he asked for a trade. It sounds like he would have opted out if he knew about Kyrie and Al going elsewhere.

I’m in on Kemba to the Celtics: https://t.co/neY0JIP1Me

— Andrew Sharp (@andrewsharp) June 26, 2019

havent read that not sure if any sportswriter have yet figured out my plan to get adams and kemba

which one are you trading Hayward for?

kemba

havent read
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/6/26/18758828/boston-celtics-free-agency-nikola-vucevic-kemba-walker

what if we just keep posting links and no one reads, sad

i agree with the underlying axiom of that which is that the celtics should not increase the number of ball dominant players they have. i'm down with taking kemba in if someone else is being sent out

tjarks claims that brown and tatum "don't need a point guard and can create their own shots" so he kinda lost me there

not convinced that brown and tatum can be part of the same good offense at this point, they're both cloggers

they just need to stop cloggin

one of them really needs to make a leap next year on offense if its gonna work

not convinced that brown and tatum can be part of the same good offense at this point, they're both cloggers

― ciderpress, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 7:03 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they can both shoot it, all the more reason to get a pg who will get them shots!

also and i'm sorry, "not a playoff player" doesn't even begin to describe vucavic. marc gasol absolutely destroyed him in the first round.

vooch was so bad i would avoid dude at all costs

do not like vooch

he's an empty stats guy imo

The Boston Celtics have emerged as the frontrunner to sign Charlotte All-Star guard Kemba Walker once free agency opens Sunday at 6 PM ET, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 27, 2019

danny “lagoon” ainge

is the implication that they're going to just sign him outright rather than do a sign-and-trade? i feel like that would eat up most if not all of their space and then they'd be left with, what, Gordon Hayward guarding their back line of defense?

yeah idk have to assume the celtics are aware they dont have any centers but not sure what their plan is

the base year compensation rules make it next to impossible to do a sign and trade with kemba.

sign and trades have become really hard to do. i'd bet against seeing a single one this offseason tbh.

getting kemba would be a pretty impressive pivot for the celtics given that he's the best free agent they reasonably have a shot at. i think you can go back and forth on how good he *actually* is but he's the type of guy that has thrived on brad stevens teams, he won't need to do as much as he did in charlotte, he's going to be a huge hit with the city, etc. etc.

they still have $5m bucks or so to get a center which should be plenty.

https://i.imgur.com/CNCvOIL.png

yeah that is tempting. i really like turner. sabonis though, f no

ya, indy might like it too

and they both make $NaN

taken from elsewhere but lol

Upside: Very good player

Downside: Lots more UConn fans coming to games

Tough call but I’m in favor of it

why would the pacers trade turner

with the other FA renouncements they would be making if kemba were to formally commit, i think (though i'm not 100 percent on the math) they might well have space for someone above the bargain basement level, like a dewayne dedmon type

xp i really dont think they would, also cutting bait on jaylen seems wicked unwise

i don't think they would (or should) but if they feel they can't keep both turner and sabonis then they could make sabonis the starting 5, not pay bogdanovic who is older and replace him with brown, pay thad young for defense, and set up the team that way. it's a path that makes some sense but i think they will try to play sabonis and turner together until they realize it doesn't work.

yeah it solves positional issues for them and they get a really good young player

cutting bait on jaylen seems wicked unwise

― horford chants out between two worlds, "kyrie walk with me" (slothroprhymes), Thursday, June 27, 2019 11:09 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not cutting bait, its a trade for value

pacers also drafted a center

still feel like with kemba they risk having too much material and not enough glue again unless they make another big move

xp oh yeah the big dude who is certainly going to intentionally injure somebody in a few years