Paul George Traded To OKC

[max215]

Celtics trade offer for Paul George back at trade deadline, per league source: Brooklyn pick (wound up being No. 1) and 3 other first-rounders.

http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0672625265960031417-4

Something tells me Danny wasn't the irrational actor in the Paul George situation.

[Roy H.]

I wonder why the Pacers wouldn't wait to see what happened with Hayward first?

Almost like a spite trade.

Why should they? To repeatedly get offered Crowder and a non-lottery pick?

[SparzWizard]

Again, screw Indianapolis sports. Hope they never have any success.

First David West from 2011 (we would've seriously beaten Miami in 5 or 6 games if we signed him before Larry Bird snatched him away). Now this debacle.

[KGs Knee]

So I guess I was wrong, apparently some NBA GM's do in fact take lesser offers to spite other GM's for perceived slights.

This was clearly a big FU to Ainge for not being willing to meet Indy's unrealistic demands. Instead they settle for a pupu platter of dog crap.

Unreal

[Snakehead]

Celtics trade offer for Paul George back at trade deadline, per league source: Brooklyn pick (wound up being No. 1) and 3 other first-rounders.

http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0672625265960031417-4

Something tells me Danny wasn't the irrational actor in the Paul George situation.

This is what we are dealing with.  Just take the great picks then.

[max215]

Celtics offer on draft night for Paul George, per league source, was 3 first-round picks (not the Nets pick next year or the Lakers/Kings pick) and two starters (Crowder being one).

http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0672625701681108161-4

Indy chose the lesser offer. No faulting Danny for Pritchard's stupidity.

[MVPPierceNoJoke]

Long term this is the best thing that could have happened for the Celts. Let's just hope for Hayward. If the Celtics get Hayward, they had a great off season and are contenders for the east. George would have caused serious cap situations.

[Bobshot]

I don't understand how the narrative here is ainge is an idiot when it should be Indy are idiots.. AB, Crowder, smart/rozier is a heck of a lot better return than oladipo and sabonis. Nvm the plethora of non Brooklyn picks we could have added..

I'm sorry but I'm with ainge here. No point in selling the whole farm for a 1 year rental. It's gotten to the point now where teams would rather take a lesser haul than to make a deal with ainge, which makes zero sense

The idiot is me. 
I saw Amick's tweet on George deal to OKC.
In my haste to post a thread on it, I titled it Griffin instead of George, even though the tweet source was for George.
My apologies for the mixup. I just sold a property a couple of hours ago, and was a bit out of whack with this news.

[cltc5]

****.  We can't win.  Well it's a shorter trip to the lakers

[Yoki_IsTheName]

I wonder why the Pacers wouldn't wait to see what happened with Hayward first?

Almost like a spite trade.

I really believe this is a spite trade, and it's $84 million worth of spite.

I don't understand why they couldn't wait for two more weeks before the Hayward thing settles before they go back to this deal. Bradley, Crowder, Yabusele and two 1st (even without the Nets and LAL/SAC pick) is MUCH BETTER than what they got.

Pritchard simply did this out of spite. There's no other reason as to why he'd do such a dumb and expensive trade.

[tazzmaniac]

So freaking frustrating.

George went cheap. Butler went cheap. But hey, we have "assets".

To be fair, Butler was not all that cheap. Decent return for the Bulls, IMO.

But PG going for Dipo and Sabonis?? THATS CHEAP! I have a hard time imagining Pacers would choose that package over Bradley+Crowder and MEM and LAC 1st rounders.

Which means that PG likely told Ainge that, come hell or high water, he was going to LA.

Mike

Amazing that people don't get this.

It's not a failure on Ainge's part. Ainge simply didn't want to give up a good asset for a rental.

I think there's very little chance George joins the Lakers.

If PG and Westbrook work well together, they could decide to both go to the Lakers next offseason.  The Lakers would need to move Deng, Clarkson and probably Randle to make it work.   

[kraidstar]

That's remarkable.

Sure but I seriously give George like a 20% chance of resigning there and I feel like that's almost generous.

I think 20% is very generous.

lol it is.  I can't say it isn't a good move regardless for them but yeah I think in the end like some others are saying this was on the Pacers.  If they want to do this move oh well.

Westbrook couldn't win with KG, Ibaka, and Harden, so it's doubtful he wins with PG13, Adams, and Kanter. That team isn't close.

PG-13 will come to the same conclusion that KD did, and he will be gone.

This trade might manage to ruin both the Pacers AND the Thunder.

[Tr1boy]

Paul George has been traded to OKC, per sources

too bad for the Pacers

Like I stated...Pritchard was probably going to let his emotions rule , and do something irrational like this

TOO bad for him. 

[Snakehead]

Pritchard LITERALLY said last week: “There’s a lot of deals where we take back potential All-Stars and current All-Stars.” Jesus Christ.

https://twitter.com/YoungNBA/status/880970774248640512


This is what you are dealing with.

[Roy H.]

I wonder why the Pacers wouldn't wait to see what happened with Hayward first?

Almost like a spite trade.

I really believe this is a spite trade, and it's $84 million worth of spite.

I don't understand why they couldn't wait for two more weeks before the Hayward thing settles before they go back to this deal. Bradley, Crowder, Yabusele and two 1st (even without the Nets and LAL/SAC pick) is MUCH BETTER than what they got.

Pritchard simply did this out of spite. There's no other reason as to why he'd do such a dumb and expensive trade.

Or, he thought Oladipo and Sabonis were better than a role player and a couple of late firsts.