Boston Celtics Dame Trade ideas and rumors

If an NBA players makes 10 million or 300 million its all pretty ridiculous for playing a game of entertainment. But where else should the money go? People want to spend it and hand it over to the NBA, either owners or players get it. Nobody is being forced to pay for medication/food/shelter/etc with these dollars. The owners are making plenty as well. Remember max contracts have stayed flat at 25/30%/35 % of the cap for now over a decade depending on age and criteria a player hits. The increase in player salaries is only because the cap is going way up.

I care more that the salary cap is structured to so its fair to all NBA teams, and doesn't let rich owners or glamor markets dominate the sport. That a specific player is earning x dollars never really bothered me. I think this 2nd apron rules might help. We also have seen many smaller markets win titles and mega markets struggle for decades so overall I'd say the rules are pretty good.

Wouldn't be shocked if we just end up with a simpler hard cap in a few years. If they did a hard cap, but had very basic "Bird rights" actually only allow a team to exceed the hard cap for a player with the same team in his 5th year it would be fine. That was the original intent of the rule, that a team like the Celtics with Bird wouldn't lose a core they'd had for years. It wasn't supposed to be some Warriors/Nets/Suns/etc thing where they could spend hundreds of millions more than other teams.

 

Or fishing/hunting guides.

 

I look at it the opposite, we don't want picks from Miami or Phoenix or another similar team soon as they currently have very effective old stars. But those starts will decline, and those franchises have fewer ways to replenish their talent. Those franchises also have incentive to win now at the cost of long term development. In a number of years those picks could be worth a fortune.

Of course there's a chance those ultimately are late picks. But that's much better than a higher chance they are late picks sooner. There isn't any teams trading away picks soon that could be high picks, so the next best thing is possibly high picks in later years.

The time until the picks doesn't matter; the strength of the picks is what matters. The Blazers can flip them at any draft for an earlier pick or to acquire a player to win now if that is needed. Its an advantage the picks are many years out, not a disadvantage.

 

I disagree. Id rather have the picks be several years out in the future.

Theres a higher probability in this case that PHX & Miami will be worse in 4-5 years than in the next 2-3.

Besides, Portland will be bad enough that we'll get our own high lotto pick regardless

 

If he’s smart with his money, he’ll live a comfortable life. After taxes and agent commission, he’ll have $120 million. Give at least $20 million to charity. He’s left with $100 million. If he means to live into his 80s, that’s $2 million per year to live comfortably. Save a little and he passes it on to his children. But like people said, it’s the CEOs that make the big bucks and they don’t lose their jobs at age 37.

 

Local Duck gets 250 plus million.
Not bad for a 3 star versus 3 pick in nba draft

 

If he makes a few bad investments he could lose 3 million. Then instead of $2 million per year he has nothing. I feel really sorry for the guy, having agreed to $305 million but now having to accept he will be broke very soon. We should start a go fund me for him.

 

Dame to Boston for Jason Tatum? I know that more would have to go into the trade but is that so stupid? Didn’t Dame and Jaylen Brown want to play together before the draft when there was all those rumors of Brown coming to PDX?

 

Delete this, nephew...

 

This thread should be deleted. Moot. Why would Boston trade a player that is easily better than Dame for him? Tatum was in the mvp running last year and is younger and 10x the defender that Dame is. He is better by every measure than Dame.

 

How does that remotely make sense for us? We don't even get a single prospect?