Celtics will not give them Brown or Tatum, no chance. They've already offered enough. The whole package even without IT is probably better than what Cavs are going to get from any other franchise. Crowder, Zizic and a potentially top 5 pick in 2018 is hell of an offer.
The Cleveland Cavaliers did not request for more players in the Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas trade as of Sunday afternoon, according to Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com. The report comes after ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski mentioned on SportsCenter that Cleveland was thinking of asking for Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum but said it was "unlikely." ... “Boston is resisting, and will initially at least, resist this idea. Boston believes that it was completely transparent with Cleveland about where Thomas was physically, his rehab," Wojnarowski added. "Cleveland’s version of this is that they didn’t realize how long Thomas could potentially be out this season, he’s in the final year of his contract, and obviously, that matches up with what will likely be the final year of LeBron’s current deal, and so there’s going to be a showdown between these two teams that may last a couple more days.” Link
Actually I think it's pretty scummy if Cleveland knew IT was injured and only did this to try to leverage Boston into giving more later. That's the kind of thing that makes other GM's not want to deal with you.
I thought there was a timeline by when the trade had to be voided or officially completed. I'm surprised it has drug out this long.
Why the Trail Blazers Shouldn’t Even Consider Damian Lillard for Kyrie Irving A reader wonders if such a deal could be viable if the Celtics-Cavaliers trade falls through.
Jaime Lannister reasons out a Lillard-Irving trade: On the one hand, Portland would lose their most popular player and team leader for a player of substantially similar ability who chose to leave a title winner and contender because one of his teammates was better than him. ... Fin.
Anything that is happening right now in these negotiations will be completely irrelevant by FA next summer.
I was meaning to post that a while ago but probably didn't, I don't think IT is going to receive a max offer next season at all. His max will be around $30M and there will only be a handful of teams who could pay him that sort of money next year, most of them will steer clear. I think, like George Hill this year, he will target a max but get closer to 2/3rds of it.
You posted it. A few people mentioned teams they think would. Like Denver, for instance. Though I don't know if they'll have the cap space.
