Free Agency Thread

Jazz should pick up the phone and ask the Celtics asking about the availability of Jae Crowder. Boston is now top heavy at SF.

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) July 4, 2017

Hayward's reported contract is for the full max. Boston will have work to do clearing salary. Almost has to be Smart just due to #'s

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) July 4, 2017

Now the chips can start to fall

Would be nice if we could get Smart and Nick Young somehow. Not sure how we could make it work though.

Wouldn't punch you into the upper echelon but it would make one of the more cohesive teams we have fielded in the AD era.

Agent Mark Bartelstein, who reps Hayward, told me he & Heat are "working on something" for James Johnson, will talk with Riley tonight.

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) July 4, 2017

Would be nice if we could pry Avery Bradley away from the Celts but who am I kidding we have nothing to give

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Would be nice if we could pry Avery Bradley away from the Celts but who am I kidding we have nothing to give

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Ohhhh, Ainge loves draft picks.

With Gordon Hayward now agreeing to a four-year $127M max contract, Celtics management now has a series of... https://t.co/fNnVBGaOqF

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) July 4, 2017

With Gordon Hayward now agreeing to a four-year $127M max contract, Celtics management now has a series of transactions to do in order to create cap space. The Celtics would have to pull the qualifying offer on Kelly Olynyk, renounce free agents Jonas Jerebko, James Young, Gerald Green and waive the contracts of Jordan Mickey and Demetrius Jackson (or trade). The Celtics would be left with $27.6M in room and likely need to move the contract of Jae Crowder, Terry Rozier or Marcus Smart. Trading Rozier would have the Celtics short $1M of a max salary a lot.

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Would be nice if we could get Smart and Nick Young somehow. Not sure how we could make it work though.

Wouldn't punch you into the upper echelon but it would make one of the more cohesive teams we have fielded in the AD era.

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thought I might point this out on the Smart front:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CifxHpQWc_0

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thought I might point this out on the Smart front:

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Don't forget this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhBfV29NrY

Boston has renounced restricted free agent Kelly Olynyk, allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

Indiana and Atlanta on the short list of interested teams, I'm told https://t.co/zSw2oXp5QE

— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) July 5, 2017

There will be a strong market for Olynyk, whose cap hold needed to leave Boston payroll to create space to sign Gordon Hayward. https://t.co/0HTdpBmwYa

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

Well according to Zach Lowe at ESPN, Swaggy is expected to make a decision today or tomorrow on who to sign with out of us & the Warriors. But the Warriors are looking at Jamal Crawford too, but won't be able to acquire him supposedly until he gets bought out after the Hawks acquire him via trade. Who knows when or if that will happen tho. I hope Swaggy picks us cause he gives us what we need. A scorer with the length to play the 2 or 3 and shoots the 3 at a 40% clip. I guess a 3 & D guy would be better, but I'll take a 2 & 3 guy lol. Hopefully a 2 year 11.5 million dollar deal will get it done, but it will probably be more like a 2-3 year deal for 12-18 million. Hopefully he doesn't want anything more than 3 years and I'm hesitant to give him more than 2. Who knows? He made something like 5.4 last year, declined his 5.7 option for this year, and had a good year. Plus he actually looked to have gotten better on D last year, but it was a contract year. He better not be looking for anything more than 6 a year!!!

Names keep falling and Dell keeps busy doing...emmm...he is trying to...uhmm oh well.Another great offseason.

Olynyk has been released it seems.

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Names keep falling and Dell keeps busy doing...emmm...he is trying to...uhmm oh well.Another great offseason.

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You act as if Dell is doing nothing. but you'll change your tune when we bring Jimmer back.

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You act as if Dell is doing nothing. but you'll change your tune when we bring Jimmer back.

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Lol, and why not salmons, what a great signing!

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Lol, and why not salmons, what a great signing!

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Damn I forgot about Salmons.

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Lol, and why not salmons, what a great signing!

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Should probably grab Greg Stiemsma while we are at it. Get the whole cap mismanagement scrap heap together.

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Names keep falling and Dell keeps busy doing...emmm...he is trying to...uhmm oh well.Another great offseason.

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Seriously all you do is troll

You realize all we have is the MLE and BAE right? Also it's likely that dell is looking to move the 2018 pick.

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Seriously all you do is troll

You realize all we have is the MLE and BAE right? Also it's likely that dell is looking to move the 2018 pick.

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Not trolling, if you did aberrations like asik or hill, ajinca..then you have to pay it.All I demanded was firing demps.Now all I can do is watch this franchise go nowhere and is a pity.There's no one that is as sad as me.

Doubt the Celtics will move Crowder. Beyond value contract, he's still the piece that lets them play successful small-ball.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) July 5, 2017

Source says Boston has already begun contacting teams about picking up Marcus Smart.

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) July 5, 2017

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Not trolling, if you did aberrations like asik or hill, ajinca..then you have to pay it.All I demanded was firing demps.Now all I can do is watch this franchise go nowhere and is a pity.There's no one that is as sad as me.

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Judging by your history I believe you

So, when does Calipari's plane land?

Flurry of action surrounding Olynyk, with multiple teams gauging his price point in unrestricted free agency now, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

I know it probably is extremely unlikely, but if we traded for Bledsoe, could we maybe try for Crowder as well? That starting 5 would be awesome defensively.

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So, when does Calipari's plane land?

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Lol not sure if joking but where has there even been a hint of him leaving Kentucky? I mean as a Memphis fan, i can certainly picture him just bolting but he keeps going out of his way to keep saying he is not leaving Kentucky. Oh wait, he did that with Memphis too. I dunno.


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I'd expect #Celtics to trade Jae Crowder. Not sure if they'll be forced to choose between Avery Bradley and Marcus Smart as well.

— Adam Kaufman (@AdamMKaufman) July 5, 2017

So am I the only one who wants to smack the ish out of these celtics fans for saying "trade for AD!" Or "Hopefully the Pelicans are stupid to trade us Davis" every single time I type in "pelicans" on twitter's search bar.

It makes me so mad. I trust that the team has a plan to keep Boogie and AD happy.

See my trade for Bledsoe, land Wall post.

It's like sure, Celtics, we'll give you AD. Give us Thomas, Bradley, Crowder, Hayward, and all of your firsts

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I know it probably is extremely unlikely, but if we traded for Bledsoe, could we maybe try for Crowder as well? That starting 5 would be awesome defensively.

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getting one in a trade is quite the stretch no pun intended

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I'd expect #Celtics to trade Jae Crowder. Not sure if they'll be forced to choose between Avery Bradley and Marcus Smart as well.

— Adam Kaufman (@AdamMKaufman) July 5, 2017

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who guards lebron if you trade jae? bully brown isnt ready

they need to keep him

I guess they aren't comfortable with playing Hayward and Crowder/Brown together. Doesn't make sense to me. Bradley has to go regardless, why not move him now? Crowder has more value between the two given his contract and position. They should keep him as ammo for a bigger trade.

Free agent guard Derrick Rose will meet with the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

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I'd expect #Celtics to trade Jae Crowder. Not sure if they'll be forced to choose between Avery Bradley and Marcus Smart as well.

— Adam Kaufman (@AdamMKaufman) July 5, 2017

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Hmmmm.... If only I could think of a scenario where they move both Crowder and Smart for cap space and future picks.....

Oh, and our future picks are worth more to a guy like Ainge, because he would bet that we will have imploded 3 years down the road, ala Brooklyn.

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Hmmmm.... If only I could think of a scenario where they move both Crowder and Smart for cap space and future picks.....

Oh, and our future picks are worth more to a guy like Ainge, because he would bet that we will have imploded 3 years down the road, ala Brooklyn.

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Don't give me false hope.

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Don't give me false hope.

:hihi:

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Hmmmm.... If only I could think of a scenario where they move both Crowder and Smart for cap space and future picks.....

Oh, and our future picks are worth more to a guy like Ainge, because he would bet that we will have imploded 3 years down the road, ala Brooklyn.

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We don't have the cap to absorb both.

Fire and Ice working together today

https://mobile.twitter.com/PelicansN...644416/video/1

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We don't have the cap to absorb both.

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Works on trade machine:

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ycn6y2qp

Just sub out Crawford for Toupane (can't trade him for a few more days). But it does work as a 3-team trade.

Maybe we do pull something off with Celtics but it's for Bradley?

Think boston wants Brown to play more SG than SF.

RFA Otto Porter has reached agreement on a four-year, $106M max deal with Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell The Vertical.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 5, 2017

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RFA Otto Porter has reached agreement on a four-year, $104M max deal with Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell The Vertical.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 5, 2017

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I wonder how long it takes for Washington to match.

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— jd (@JDfromSLC) July 5, 2017

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I wonder how long it takes for Washington to match.

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Can confirm Otto Porter will sign four-year, $106.5M offer sheet from the Nets. Wizards will have until 11:59 p.m. ET on Saturday to match.

— Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) July 5, 2017

Wizards had hoped to work out something more cap friendly with Otto Porter, but they intend to match Nets offer, sources tell @TheVertical.

— Chris Mannix (@ChrisMannixYS) July 5, 2017

Free agent forward Patrick Patterson has agreed to a three-year, $16.4M deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

Really nice deal https://t.co/eACvjifA9f

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) July 5, 2017

Deal includes player option on the third year, league sources tell ESPN. Patterson gets a starting job on contender in a tough marketplace. https://t.co/RsRCa4sR1G

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

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Free agent forward Patrick Patterson has agreed to a three-year, $16.4M deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

Really nice deal https://t.co/eACvjifA9f

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) July 5, 2017

Deal includes player option on the third year, league sources tell ESPN. Patterson gets a starting job on contender in a tough marketplace. https://t.co/RsRCa4sR1G

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

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Really nice value signing for OKC.

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Free agent forward Patrick Patterson has agreed to a three-year, $16.4M deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

Really nice deal https://t.co/eACvjifA9f

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) July 5, 2017

Deal includes player option on the third year, league sources tell ESPN. Patterson gets a starting job on contender in a tough marketplace. https://t.co/RsRCa4sR1G

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2017

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That's a good deal. I like Patterson.

Did Patterson just set market for Dante Cunningham?

PP: 6.8 pts, 4.5 reb, 37.2 3FG% in 24.6 min
DC: 6.6 pts, 4.2 reb, 39.2 3FG% in 25.0 min https://t.co/9NDG6wX4mA

— Oleh Kosel (@Redhopeful) July 5, 2017

Always liked Patterson and that seems like a steal imo. Good stretch big off the bench who brings some strength and toughness.

Key free agents left on the board include Derrick Rose, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (restricted), Tim Hardaway Jr.... https://t.co/E5ALmTCpHG

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) July 5, 2017

Key free agents left on the board include Derrick Rose, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (restricted), Tim Hardaway Jr. (restricted), Dion Waiters, Andre Roberson (restricted), Bojan Bogdanovic (restricted), CJ Miles, Ian Clark, Jonathon Simmons (restricted), Rudy Gay, JaMychal Green (restricted), James Johnson, Kelly Olynyk, Nikola Mirotic (restricted), Pau Gasol, Mason Plumlee (restricted), Alex Len (restricted), Nerlens Noel (restricted).