Another trade? You mean other teams. I think this is the same old story. Danny just waits and waits and waits and does NOTHING again just like at the trade deadline. I am not sure what his "super LONG game" is but it is driving me crazy. Lakers are making trades and Philly has our #1 and we are waiting and waiting. Chicago apparently offered Butler for the #3 pick. Didn't Danny a few months ago indicate he would trade a boatload of assets for Butler? What is happening?
How can you say this when he just catapulted all this NBA craziness by trading the #1 pick?
You should realize that the Celtics are involved in nearly every major trade, at least by teams exploring whether there is any interest in the Cs moving picks/players. How many times do we have to hear Jimmy Butler to Boston? If they don't want Butler, why does this mean he is doing nothing?
It's bizarre. Ainge makes more deals than any other GM in the league but, somehow, has a reputation as a guy who never does anything. I don't get it.
He is trading picks. When will we actually see a player? A lot of people are saying he will deal the #3 pick in some big deal but I don't see it. I hope I am wrong. What confuses me is a few months ago at the deadline I was hearing that he was trying desperately to get Butler and even overpaying. But yesterday all of a sudden the #3 pick alone is too costly for that same player? Is the player worse? We changed our mind? I don't get it.
He traded for Isaiah Thomas less than 3 seasons ago. He signed the second best free agent on the market last summer. The same summer he drafted an exciting young prospect #3. Ainge is constantly bringing in new players.
He traded for Thomas because (and only because) he got him for pretty much nothing.
He signed Horford because there was nobody better willing to sign,
and he had the cap storage, and didn't have to give anything up to get him.
He drafted Brown #3 because he had the pick, so may as well use it.
He shies away from any big trades though. Anything that involves giving up valuable assets, he tends to just not do it.
The problem is that as a general rule, you need to give up something nice to get something nice. You can't get by forever by embarrassing o stupid GMs who decide to trade excellent assets for loose change. You can't just keep waiting for the next time to trade two old retirees fit 3 future top 3 picks. Deals like that just dont come along very often. You need to accept that in order to get better, sometimes you need to take a risk - sometimes you need to let go of somebody good in order to acquire somebody better.
I'm guessing be probably is holding back on the Butler trade because he knows that in order to do the trade he needs to either:
1. sacrifice Bradley
2. Sacrifice Brown
3. Sacrifice the ability to sign a max free agent
4. Sacrifice #3 pick
They are all nice pieces that are difficult to let go of, and so I'm sure he'll try to find a way to negotiate a scenario where he can make the trade without having to e do any of the above, but he can't because there are simple laws of salary matching he has to abide by, and that means one of those pieces (at least) needs to go.
So he'll keep pushing and pushing for the bulls to give Butlerv way for scraps, which they are not going to do, until eventually some other team makes an offer and gets Butler for a bargain price, and Danny misses out and comes out looking like an idiot.
The Hornets fir example just got Dwight Howard for nothing. absolute scraps. He would have helped our team tremendously and we could have easily beat that offer. But from what I see Danny just tries to play head games with opposing GMs, and they get fed up with his garbage and just decide to deal with somebody else...and in the end its the Celtics and their fans that tend to miss out.
Now we all knew, #3 fir Butler was on the table. We all know that Ainge COULD have had Butler for the cost of a single #3 pick. I dont know of any team in history that has gotten a player of butler's calibre, in his prime, for that cheap. Everbody the Wolves got a #1 pick plus other bits for Kevin Love - and Butler is better then love ever was. But he won't abettor the deal because he wants to keep that cap space.
So when he misses out on Butler because he goes elsewhere, and he misses out on George because he goes elsewhere, and he misses out on Hayward because he decides to stay in Utah, and he missed out on Griffin because he decides to sign elsewhere or return to the Clippers...
Then we can all look back on this moment and remind ourselves that we had Butler right in the palm of our hands...and Danny threw him right back in the pond.
When whatever rookie we draft at #3 is coming off the bench playing 15-20 MPG while Crowder gets destroyed by Lebron we can remeber - we could have had Butler instead of that rookie.