Celtics Willing to Trade 1st Round Pick to Dump Gerald Wallace

[sgjazzfan]

for 10 Million it has to be #16. Jazz traded 3 Million in cash for the #27 and got Gobert. #12 and #16 with a future first might be enough to get up to draft Winslow or Hezonja at #6.

 

[Coach Ellis]

Would have been better to take on the last year of Jeremy Lin's bloated contract for essentially the same pick from the Rockets. At least Lin is a young, serviceable reserve.

 

[Avery]

I hope Boston plans to send over some cash for that buyout as well. Getting #28 for $10 mil is highway robbery.

 

[Jeffrey32]

Might be other picks as well a Celts have a lot


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[silesian]

If you cut him you have to pay him. This just in, people, even ridiculously rich owners, don't like blowing 10 million dollars just to make a guy leave.

Question: why so condescending?

Your framing of the problem is misleading on two fronts.

First, they would not be "blowing $10m just to make a guy leave," they would be spending $10m to get a first round draft pick. A valid argument would be that neither of the Celtics picks are worth ~$10m. If instead the Celtics have the first pick in the draft, teams would be lining up to make that deal. It is not the strategy that is flawed, it is the price. It is basically the same strategy as the Jazz trading for and paying Biendris, who they never had an intention of playing.

Second, it is less about $10m and more about what else they could do with the cap space, which they are going to spend somewhere else. There is a cap minimum so it is not an incremental $10m out of an owner's pocket.

 

[Hedda Gambler]

This deal would cost us Booker and the 3 of the other unguaranteed contracts. I doubt it would be for anything other than the #28 (because Philly would jump on that ish quick). #12 and #28 doesn't move you to the #9.

Yup. If we were to do this before the draft, which we would have to do if the goal is to move up in this year`s draft, it would cost us way too much to create the cap space to make it worth it. We would have to send Booker and Jerrett to make this deal legal and I just don`t see the value in that. If the Celtics actually want Booker as an asset and would be willing to give up both #16 and #28, I would have to reconsider as #12, #16, #28 and the future picks owed from GS and OKC could make us able to jump up quite a bit in the draft.