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Offline rondohondo

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2015 under contract

Green  9.445 (player option)
Lee    5.675
Sully  2.269 (team option
Melo   2.249 (team option)

2015 key UFA

Rondo
Bradley


Let's say green picks up his option and plays the final year for 9.45 mil, and the C's pickup Sully's team option .
They let Fab Melo go , and Bradley go ( or keep Bradley for Lee's salary if you can get rid of Lee for an expiting contract
in 2014)


-Give Rondo a max contract for 15 Mil a year


That brings the salary to 32.389 MIL(Green,Lee or Bradley, Sully, Rondo)


2015 NBA Free Agents

Top Guards

Eric Gordon ( player option)
Marcus Thorton UFA
Wess Matthews  UFA

Top Bigs

 Gasol      UFA
 Aldridge   UFA
 Love     ( Player option)
 Hibbert  ( player option)
 Lopez      UFA
 Boozer     UFA
 Jordan     UFA
 Chandler   UFA

2015 salary cap will be around 60 mil , if not more .

-add Gasol,Aldridge or Love for a max contract

brings the salary to 47.389 mil


You would likely have enough cap room to add Marcus Thorton

Fill out the rest of the roster with vet min contracts and draft picks


PG: Rondo                 / vet min
SG: Thorton               / Lee or Bradley
SF: Green                 /2013 pick
PF: Sully                 / 2014 pick
 c: Gasol,Aldridge or Love / vet min or fab melo(might have enough cap space to keep him)

So what do you think ? is that a championship caliber starting 5 ?


oh by the way if green ends up opting out of his contract , we likely would have enough cap
space to add 2 max big men and be able to resign Rondo to a max( rondo with love or alrdidge AND Gasol)



Thoughts?

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as usual in the NBA, I don't see most of those guys actually making it to free agency without signing extensions.

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Agreed. They'll make more money resigning with their own teams. Plus, it's hard enough as is to get free agents to come to boston.

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Considering that contracts are shorter now with the new CBA, I'll bet a lot of teams will have room in 2015, at least if you look at it from today's vantage point.  But this post also assumes many things:

1) The Celtics will not sign any draft pick the next three years
2) The Celtics will not extend either Bradley or Crawford this offseason
3) If the Celtics don't extend either Crawford or Bradley, that we don't match a contract offer they would receive as restricted free agents in the summer of 2014.
4) The Celtics will not offer someone the MLE for the full three years this offseason, or for more than one year next offseason.  The Celtics also couldn't offer someone the full BAE next offseason.

It's possible we'd have room to sign one player for the max after taking care of Rondo, but certainly not a guarantee.

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Ooh sounds really promising
Banner 18 please 😍

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Rondo, Bradley, Green and Sully will be extended and we will have a couple of first rounders in addition to Fab as well.  But we only need one more guy.  If we can add an Aldrige or Gasol to go with Sully we would have an amazing team. 
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interesting. Let's tank for 2 years and start courting Love.

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Interesting. I don't know whether to be shocked that people think they can tell three drafts ahead of time whether it is loaded or not or whether to be worried that the skills of 15-16 year old boys are so closely followed in this country.

I will believe that we will have a bunch of cap flexibility by the 2015 offseason but I think I am willing to wait a year before thinking I know for sure just how loaded the 2015 draft will be. One 15-16 year old suddenly grows 9" over a summer(making him regress as coaches try to teach him a new position) or some kid gets hurt badly or shot or decides to play football or baseball instead and suddenly that loaded draft could be looking very thin.

Its still way to early to tell for kids that age.

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Interesting. I don't know whether to be shocked that people think they can tell three drafts ahead of time whether it is loaded or not or whether to be worried that the skills of 15-16 year old boys are so closely followed in this country.

I will believe that we will have a bunch of cap flexibility by the 2015 offseason but I think I am willing to wait a year before thinking I know for sure just how loaded the 2015 draft will be. One 15-16 year old suddenly grows 9" over a summer(making him regress as coaches try to teach him a new position) or some kid gets hurt badly or shot or decides to play football or baseball instead and suddenly that loaded draft could be looking very thin.

Its still way to early to tell for kids that age.

I agree Nick, but the topic is free agent class, not draft class.

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Interesting. I don't know whether to be shocked that people think they can tell three drafts ahead of time whether it is loaded or not or whether to be worried that the skills of 15-16 year old boys are so closely followed in this country.

I will believe that we will have a bunch of cap flexibility by the 2015 offseason but I think I am willing to wait a year before thinking I know for sure just how loaded the 2015 draft will be. One 15-16 year old suddenly grows 9" over a summer(making him regress as coaches try to teach him a new position) or some kid gets hurt badly or shot or decides to play football or baseball instead and suddenly that loaded draft could be looking very thin.

Its still way to early to tell for kids that age.

Absolutely, but if you want to talk about the draft a couple of years from now, there is this kid Karl Towns who is going to be an absolute beast. 
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guys for the last time FREE AGENTS DO NOT LIKE TO COME HERE!!!  ::)

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guys for the last time FREE AGENTS DO NOT LIKE TO COME HERE!!!  ::)

Not counting Courtney Lee, the following free agents signed with Boston before the 2012-13 season:

Darko Milicic
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guys for the last time FREE AGENTS DO NOT LIKE TO COME HERE!!!  ::)

Not counting Courtney Lee, the following free agents signed with Boston before the 2012-13 season:

Darko Milicic
Leandro Barbosa
Jeff Green
Jason Collins
Jamar Smith
Dionte Christmas
Keyon Dooling
Jason Terry
Kevin Garnett
Brandon Bass
Chris Wilcox

He meant good Free Agents. Good Free Agents do not like to come here via free agency from other teams.

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guys for the last time FREE AGENTS DO NOT LIKE TO COME HERE!!!  ::)

Not counting Courtney Lee, the following free agents signed with Boston before the 2012-13 season:

Darko Milicic
Leandro Barbosa
Jeff Green
Jason Collins
Jamar Smith
Dionte Christmas
Keyon Dooling
Jason Terry
Kevin Garnett
Brandon Bass
Chris Wilcox

He meant good Free Agents. Good Free Agents do not like to come here via free agency from other teams.

Exactly, no one worth their weight in gold wants to come here.

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guys for the last time FREE AGENTS DO NOT LIKE TO COME HERE!!!  ::)

Not counting Courtney Lee, the following free agents signed with Boston before the 2012-13 season:

Darko Milicic
Leandro Barbosa
Jeff Green
Jason Collins
Jamar Smith
Dionte Christmas
Keyon Dooling
Jason Terry
Kevin Garnett
Brandon Bass
Chris Wilcox

He meant good Free Agents. Good Free Agents do not like to come here via free agency from other teams.

Exactly, no one worth their weight in gold wants to come here.

Oh, you mean like a max-level free agent?

When was the last time Boston had more than the MLE to spend on a free agent from another team?
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