Ric Bucher: Love to Celtics Not Likely

[Rondo9]

sooo should we book Love as a Celtic for sure now?

No.

[gpap]

My motto....believe NOTHING til SOMETHING happens.

Then you can report it and credit yourself as the source

[pokeKingCurtis]

Make no mistake about it, there is a reason why Ric Bucher is now working for Bleacher Report and not ESPN.

I can't tell if this means he's too full of crap for ESPN...or isn't enough full of crap for ESPN.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Make no mistake about it, there is a reason why Ric Bucher is now working for Bleacher Report and not ESPN.

I can't tell if this means he's too full of crap for ESPN...or isn't enough full of crap for ESPN.

LOL my fist thoughts when I read it too... I was confused on who the comment was dissing, did he step up or down in that situation? Hahaha

[Al91]

Bucher is honestly the worst. For some reason I keep watching all his NBA videos on Bleacher Report and come away with the same response, "I could be doing this". It doesn't take much to make largely biased sports claims based off of conjecture and what everyone else is talking about. Like most NBA rumors, best thing to do is trust in Woj or just wait for the actual trade to happen. No use in getting gray hairs with all this wavering of Kevin Love to here, Kevin Love to there, by all these reporters.

[mmmmm]

sooo should we book Love as a Celtic for sure now?

LOL - definitely not.

Anything can happen at this point still.

Nothing definitive is likely to happen until closer to draft night, if not until exactly then.

I wouldn't go bragging to your non-Celtic friends that we have Love in the bag.   But I wouldn't believe anyone who insists it won't happen, either.

[Casperian]

sooo should we book Love as a Celtic for sure now?

Yes. Don't listen to the common sense crowd.

Tell all your friends it's in the bag. Brag as hard as you can.

 

[Rondo9]

sooo should we book Love as a Celtic for sure now?

Yes. Don't listen to the common sense crowd.

Tell all your friends it's in the bag. Brag as hard as you can.

 

And then be disappointed when the Timberwolves trade Love for the 7th pick and a sack of potatoes! 

[nicknorman]

sooo should we book Love as a Celtic for sure now?

Yes. Don't listen to the common sense crowd.

Tell all your friends it's in the bag. Brag as hard as you can.

 

And then be disappointed when the Timberwolves trade Love for the 7th pick and a sack of potatoes! 

Hey at least for Minny a sack of potatoes doesn't take up cap space. At least I don't think it does.

[Eja117]

My guess to Bucher's process on this one:

So his insider information is that Love's agent and trainer are based in RI.

Form there he speculates that must have been the reason he was in Boston, and from there he further editorializes that the Celtics are not the best fit for Love.

His opinion may be correct, but relateing his opinion on the player's desire to play on the Celtics to the visit to Boston through informaiton that really is irrelevant is pretty dumb.

Unless he really does have inside information on all of that....I just doubt it.

Pretty much.  Because, after all, isn't Rhode Island like, just a suburb of Boston?   With no airports of their own?

(Imagine a snotty valley-speak twang while reading that.  The effect is better.)

Seriously. Every time I go to visit someone I spend days hanging out with someone else like a hundred miles away and get photographed doing it.

[JOMVP]

This report is just wrong.

Superstar players don't go visit their agent, and trainers.

Agent and trainers go visit their superstar players.

[chambers]

Take this with a serious grain of salt for two reasons.

1)Bucher is the Golden State Warriors beat journalist. Good hype/speculation are good for his GSW gig.
2) Wojranowski is far more credible and he's already stated the visit was for basketball reasons and feel out Boston as a landing spot.
Love's agent Schwartz loves Boston. He's got a place at Cape Cod too. He's Pierce's agent as well and would have organized for most of those pro-athlete meet ups with Love while he was here.

No doubt about it the Celtics are a serious contender for Love.

[boscel33]

Peice of advice: dont listen to anything  Ric Buher says..

lmbo, yet another person to NOT listen to.  soon, we'll be down to only Woj.

[Celtics4ever]

While I agree it is not likely and hardly a done deal.   Who knows what will happen.

I do agree that Bucher really is not much of a journalist but I think ESPN is full of guys full of hot air that are more about sound bites than actual reporting.   This guys once said this.

Ric Bucher        ✔ @RicBucher
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?@hoops_fan: Do you still think Rose is better than Lebron? #AskRic? LeBron has come a long way and I admire him for it. I'd still go w/DR.

http://www.csnchicago.com/bulls-talk/bucher-id-take-derrick-rose-over-lebron-james

I do not like LeBron and even I am not that biased that I would take rose over him.  This ought to tell you all you need to know about Little Ricky!