I would do Green, Bass and Bogans for Stat and Shumpert.
Then, sign Evan Turner to replace Green.
Amare's contract would give us an expiring 22 million deal and that much more cap space for next summer.
Plus, I kinda like this lineup for next season. Maybe we even make the playoffs
PG-Rondo/Smart/Pressey
SG-Bradley/Thornton/Shumpert/Young (you know Bradley is going to miss time with injuries)
SF-Turner/Wallace (Shumpert can also play the 3, right?)
PF-Amar'e/Sully/Olynyk
C-Zeller/Faverani/Anthony
Not too shabby (IMO.)
Plus, that leaves you with alot of money off the books for next season to resign Rondo and go after a 2015 max free agent like Love, Gasol or Aldridge.
Green is likely opting out next season. In fact, that he is opting out is rumored to be one reason his trade value is low, as teams don't want to pay much for a one year rental.
Since Green is opting out, there are no cap saving next year, because Bass and Bogans will also be gone.
?? Not sure I am following you.
If Green does end up opting out (which is not guaranteed as he would be leaving 9 mil on the table) that's even more incentive for the Knicks to do the deal because they'll also be hunting for cap space next summer.
In the interim, they get Green to be a 6th man and back up Melo at the SF position.
For the Celts, they get an established (though admittedly injury prone) vet in Stoudemire who will provide the team some experience.
The only real obstacle that I could see flying in the face of the "cap savings" aspect is how much of a contract would you have to sign Turner to?
If he be willing to take 1 year deal to sorta restablish himself after his failed Indy stint, all the better
For starters, the only way Green isn't opting out is if he suffers a major injury or another heart ailment this year. If he's healthy, he'll opt out, even if it's just to sign a longer deal at his current salary. And given the way this past offseason went, it's probable he'll get a pay increase from someone.
Anyway, the way to think about the salary cap is not how much you have coming off the books, but how much you have committed next year. Those are correlated, sure, but they're not identical. Bass has $0 committed next year. Bogans has $0 committed next year. Green, I argue, will have $0 committed next year. So that means that the Celtics are trading away $0 committed next year. Accordingly, anything they take in cannot possibly be cap savings. Furthermore, if they sign Turner and/or extend Shumpert, they will actually lose cap space.
Mind you, I'm not a huge fan of the "let's create cap room" plan for next offseason, and I don't think Ainge is really focused on that either. If he pursues a Love, or even an Aldridge should LMA become available, Ainge's primary method is through trade, either offseason, mid-season, or sign-and-trade. He has the ability to create cap room if a free agent wants to sign here and his original team won't cooperate with a sign-and-trade, but that's not his first choice, as it means he'd have a shallower roster (two max/near-max free agents, Bradley, rookie deal players, and minimum salary players. i.e, the Cavs, except without LeBron.) I don't like the proposed deal here for other reasons (makes the team worse this year with no future benefit, puts Celtics in luxury tax), but I want to make sure that the proposed benefit, increased future cap room, is recognized as pretty unlikely to occur, and not much of an actual benefit if it does.