« Reply #183 on: February 17, 2013, 12:11:47 PM »
Otherwise, it's a no brainer.
Not really. Some of us don't want to see the Celtics spend over 1/6th of their cap on a player as limited as DeAndre Jordan.
He's only signed for two years after this one. Next year is a rebuilding effort and then he's a 26 year old center on an $11 mil expiring contract - very easy to move.
So we'd be trading KG for a guy whose biggest contribution may eventually be as an expiring contract?
Doesn't that make you realize why people aren't impressed with this rumor?
Your objection was that he would take up 1/6 of the cap - my point was that wasn't really much of a problem considering our likely position next year and his contract's easy mobility afterward.
A young center on a deal that shouldn't cause us any problems and a rookie contract guard prospect that we can either keep (and trade Rondo or Bradley) or swap for a lotto pick - that's a pretty useful deal for a team that needs to start accumulating assets.
These are the kind of deals that make sense when you are entering a rebuild. Young assets that can be developed or moved for other assets. And if we get bad enough in the interim to a get a better pick all the better.
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