Woj: Pacers assessing trade market for Paul George (Merged)

[TheBigTicket23]

This could be big...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources-pacers-assessing-trade-market-for-paul-george-180740295.html

Make it happen Danny!

[hpantazo]

I think this is just Bird doing a solid for Danny and putting pressure on the Bulls.

[DefenseWinsChamps]

I think this is just Bird doing a solid for Danny and putting pressure on the Bulls.

Good angle.

However, there's been smoke around Indiana for a while.

[oldtype]

I think this is just Bird doing a solid for Danny and putting pressure on the Bulls.

Good news either way if you want to see a trade.

[Phantom255x]

I think this is just Bird doing a solid for Danny and putting pressure on the Bulls.

Possibly, but if the C's and Ainge actually seem willing to give up a bit more for PG13 than Butler, I would imagine Bird wants to get in on negotiations as well.

But honestly I would love either PG13/Butler, though I'm expecting more of Bogut or Tucker.

[Diggles]

That would be cool.....to bad they are not in different conferences.   

Like Anige with Utah, Bird stays put and we get Kevin (your choice, KG or Mr Postmove himself) 

[wdleehi]

So Boston is playing chicken with two teams.



Or, making two team play chicken over the Celtics trade offer. 


Interesting.  I can see the point in waiting.

[TheBigTicket23]

Brooklyn 2018 + Boston 2018 + Memphis 2019 + Avery Bradley + Tyler Zeller

For either

Jimmy Butler or Paul George, I would love to see that. Would hate to see AB go but I highly doubt we can pay him and Isaiah next year. 

[j804]

Ugh did you guys read the article though this part 

For teams considering a trade for George, here’s the risk: As a free agent in the summer of 2018, he has considered re-signing with Indiana or joining his hometown Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell The Vertical.

Teams trading for George run the risk of losing the four-time All-Star to a Lakers franchise that will have the salary-cap space to sign him in 2018. The Lakers’ hiring of Magic Johnson as president of basketball operations will be an interesting twist to George’s free-agent recruitment, given that Johnson has been something of a George family icon going back to George’s childhood in nearby Palmdale, Calif.

[celticinorlando]

Only issue is having PG be a rental for 1.5 years and burning everything you have and him not resigning...

[Phantom255x]

I'm going to be sick if with Magic Johnson coming to LAL, now PG13 goes to LAL in two years. 

[saltlover]

I posted this in another thread, but it feels that Woj has confirmed my point:

Does anyone seriously think that Larry Bird is going to trade Paul George, especially for what DA is willing to offer?

I think more likely than not he stays.  But Bird, like Ainge, is aggressive when it comes to making these sorts of decisions.  The Pacers team, as constructed, isn't working.  Over the summer when it wasn't working he surprised everyone by letting Vogel go and swapping Hill for Teague.  A couple years earlier, he surprised everyone by letting Lance walk away for what seemed like a very team-friendly offer.  He's not afraid to go against the grain.

His Plan A right now is to try to bring in more help for the team this week.  But if he can't, he has to decide whether he'll be able to improve the team this summer.  George has pretty much intimated that he won't stick around after next year if the Pacers don't improve.  The best offers Bird will see for George are probably today and tomorrow.  If Bird doesn't think he can make this current team around George work in time, he won't be afraid to make a trade.

[Csfan1984]

Everyone wants those Nets picks. Fultz and Ayton=titles?

[hpantazo]

Only issue is having PG be a rental for 1.5 years and burning everything you have and him not resigning...

Once he's on the Celtics for a few months , he won't want to leave.

[celticinorlando]

Only issue is having PG be a rental for 1.5 years and burning everything you have and him not resigning...

Once he's on the Celtics for a few months , he won't want to leave.

My hope also..