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Re: Larry Sanders Signs with Cavs
« Reply #45 on: March 25, 2017, 07:46:06 AM »

Offline TheSundanceKid

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Ainge does not think we are winning the East this year.   His actions make this clear, no deal at the trade deadline, no free agents signed and nothing that gives up a resource.

Maybe Danny thinks that hoisting NBA Championship banners into the rafters in the future is more important than tossing an Eastern Conference Finals banner into a dumpster now.
Yeah, because signing Sanders will really deplete our treasure chest of assets and hurt our future chances of winning a championship moving forward ::)

Im sick of people using that excuse. I was against using a lot of our future assets for a guy right now like Butler, but signing or trading for big man like Bogut, Nurkic, or Sanders for scraps? That does absolutely nothing to hurt our future while only helping in the short term. Ainge p---ed away several opportunities this year to improve our front court without hurting us in the longterm.

Agreed, and the only realistic max-contract FA this year will be Hayward.  If he wants to come to BOS, I'm pretty sure he could take a very small pay-cut, if needed. 

And then... Mickey/D-Jax have given no evidence of being NBA players, Young very minimal,  and Rozier not a whole lot. Then there's Zeller, and all the future draft picks.
Hayward isn't taking a pay cut to move teams. At least not in the way you imply. He'd be losing money already by not re-signing in Utah, no way he takes less than the max,that's absurd.

Signing Nurkic would have meant no max FA this summer, making the space would have been too hard or cost too much. Not chasing him was the clearest sign yet that Ainge has FA in mind