Celtics to trade Lee for Jerryd Bayless?

[slamtheking]

nice salary dump.  on the odd chance Bayless shows he's worth keeping, it should be for a cheaper deal than he has now.

[BballTim]

BTW, howmany of the CB old timers remember the trade Rondo for Bayless threads years ago and how people scoffed at how Portland would never trade a talent like Bayless who could shoot and score for someone like Rondo.

  You know how it is. Any young pg that has a decent stretch of play is either better than Rondo or "soon will be".

That's not how it is.

  That's how it's been since 2008. Many of your lists of point guards better than Rondo include a list of players that "soon will be". Bayless fit the bill for many. So did Jennings. So did Conley. Also Lowry. The list is long and storied.

now you are being silly.

  Some people were, not me.

[jambr380]

nice salary dump.  on the odd chance Bayless shows he's worth keeping, it should be for a cheaper deal than he has now.

He's had a number of years to prove his potential and he just hasn't done it consistently. If Bayless stays on with us, it's because he was willing to sign for the vet minimum and we either traded Crawford / couldn't afford to keep him.

Definitely not a bad pick up on a salary dump. Lee will provide quality and more consistent / efficient minutes than Bayless and we get out of a contract that didn't make sense for our team.

[nickagneta]

Short term thinking, Lee's contract had to go and to get an expiring was the best you could hope for but Danny got a quality player that just happens to be an almost exact replica of one he already has, Jordan Crawford.

Given that there have been some rumors regarding teams being interested in Crawford, could this trade be the precursor to Crawford heading out of town and Bayless just jumping right into the role Crawford hascarved out for this team and been playing for the Celtics?

[j804]

Short term thinking, Lee's contract had to go and to get an expiring was the best you could hope for but Danny got a quality player that just happens to be an almost exact replica of one he already has, Jordan Crawford.

Given that there have been some rumors regarding teams being interested in Crawford, could this trade be the precursor to Crawford heading out of town and Bayless just jumping right into the role Crawford hascarved out for this team and been playing for the Celtics?

I think so and if nothing happens this guarantees a top pick. Rejoice tankers it'll be the Bogans and Jared Bayless show.

[Chief Macho]

Being a Arizona alum,  I'll never understand why Bayless hasn't had a better pro career.  Kid was a monster as a freshman and compared to some of our best prospects ever.  Just never has lived up to the potential.

[LEHGOCELTICS]

Thanks for your services Courtney. Although it didn't really work out, I still appreciate what you did for this organization.

[Kane3387]

So this was a straight up swap?
Did we use the trade exception and did they use there's  bc I thought salaries didn't match...

To be clear no other pieces were involved? Picks or salary fillers?

[Kane3387]

Short term thinking, Lee's contract had to go and to get an expiring was the best you could hope for but Danny got a quality player that just happens to be an almost exact replica of one he already has, Jordan Crawford.

Given that there have been some rumors regarding teams being interested in Crawford, could this trade be the precursor to Crawford heading out of town and Bayless just jumping right into the role Crawford hascarved out for this team and been playing for the Celtics?

Bayless could still be moved on his own. His salary is very tradeable.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

Thank you C-Lee for the services.

I still dont get the trade. I like Jerryd Bayless as a player, but with Crawford on the helm, its probably redundant to have another scoring PG.

Did we save money on this trade? Or is J-Craw the next to go?

[Snakehead]

Thank you C-Lee for the services.

I still dont get the trade. I like Jerryd Bayless as a player, but with Crawford on the helm, its probably redundant to have another scoring PG.

Did we save money on this trade? Or is J-Craw the next to go?

We just saved money.  Bayless can be gone after this year and Courtney Lee had two years after this season at more money.

[Moranis]

So this was a straight up swap?
Did we use the trade exception and did they use there's  bc I thought salaries didn't match...

To be clear no other pieces were involved? Picks or salary fillers?

Memphis needs to send out more salary, probably someone like Mike Miller.

[Moranis]

BTW, howmany of the CB old timers remember the trade Rondo for Bayless threads years ago and how people scoffed at how Portland would never trade a talent like Bayless who could shoot and score for someone like Rondo.

  You know how it is. Any young pg that has a decent stretch of play is either better than Rondo or "soon will be".

That's not how it is.

  That's how it's been since 2008. Many of your lists of point guards better than Rondo include a list of players that "soon will be". Bayless fit the bill for many. So did Jennings. So did Conley. Also Lowry. The list is long and storied.

now you are being silly.

  Some people were, not me.

I just think you are misremembering things.  Just because people included Rondo in trades for those people and maybe even said things like those players were better fits with the current team, certainly doesn't mean people thought those players were better than Rondo.

[Roy H.]

So this was a straight up swap?
Did we use the trade exception and did they use there's  bc I thought salaries didn't match...

To be clear no other pieces were involved? Picks or salary fillers?

Memphis needs to send out more salary, probably someone like Mike Miller.

Memphis absorbed Lee's deal using their exception from the Rudy Gay trade.

[2short]

Thank you C-Lee for the services.

I still dont get the trade. I like Jerryd Bayless as a player, but with Crawford on the helm, its probably redundant to have another scoring PG.

Did we save money on this trade? Or is J-Craw the next to go?

i'd like to move crawford now, he could go to a team looking for scoring combo guard off bench
bay less starting pg, backup pressey
sg bradley, bogans

return of rondo, keeps his minutes in check, bayless is 1st guard off bench
still more trades to come