Salvage Trades

I remember reading Malik Rose would be bought out from the Knicks , he would be a decent addition to the bench.He loves doing the dirty work and seems to get alot of rebounds of someone of his size.

Scals will be a good role player with good players. I wouldn’t look to move him too quickly for just anyone. We are also not going to fill out this team this year. Why can’t we be satisfied that we have 3 of the best players in the league on our team, recognize that the work isn’t completed and let Danny take care of it.

Anybody know if Pruitt or Davis have been signed? I haven’t and that seems unusual. Suspect other things are going on so someone give DA a call.

Scalabrine will be a good role player this year. He is a complimentary player. On a team of clueless youth where he tried to be more than that his worst game was exposed. This year we will see his best game.

Scal can come off the bench and do a lot of little things. He sets picks, isn’t afraid to throw his body around defensively and can shoot and occasional 3. He is overpaid, but that isn’t his fault (it’s DA’s). He can still be an effective 7th-8th man, logging 15 minutes a game off the bench on a good team. That isn’t worth $3M per season, but that doesn’t mean he is worthless.

I don’t think Scals is overpaid at three mill. Look at Dampier getting 10 mill. There are too many overpaid players in this league, grossly overpaid, and it makes it hard to sign players for reasonable salaries when they see what lesser players are getting.

No, he is terrible and his contract is indeed killing this team.

Folks just have to accept the fact that Delonte West isn’t walking through that door.

One tradeable piece that folks haven’t thought about is Olowokandi. He could be signed to a three year extension with only the first year guaranteed, and then used as cap fodder. But the C’s would have to be careful to navigate the base year compensation rules, so they couldn’t give him a raise larger than 20%.

The fact is that Ainge has no real tradeable assets left, although I imagine some teams might want Powe or Davis. I wouldn’t give up either of those players, but Ainge might.

The suggested trades are more moronic than Scalabrine’s contract. I don’t understand what’s wrong with just keeping him. Seriously.

Its impossible to move him since no GM in this league would want a Michael Rappaport look a like with no skills and a $3 million contract. There must be some kind of buyout he could accept like 80% of his contract and a lifetime supply of coffee cake muffins from Dunkies

Scalabrine’s contract is killing the Celtics? I don’t think so. LaFrentz’s contract killed the team, Gin Baker’s contract killed the team, but $3mil? No, that’s not a “team killer” contract. Scal will be fine as a complimentary player. His 3-point shooting will pull the opponent’s bigs out to the perimeter, leaving more room for KG to operate.

The Celtics have roughly $3mil of the mid-level exception to spend on two players. The chance to win is what will drive free-agents to come to Boston, and it sounds like any deals will be one-year. I agree with kozlodoev that those trades are unrealistic (I like Scal for Jask, but that kind of trade only happens in NBA Live). They can get a back-up center (Mutombo or Pollard?) and a back-up PG (Payton?) is easily doable with $3mil to spend.

It’s curious that Pruit and Davis haven’t been signed. But signing them will not affect the mid-level exception money.

Why didn’t the Celtics use their LLE to sign House? If they had done that, they would have their entire MLE to spend. My guess is that the reports we’ve seen are inaccurate.

How can you say his contract is not killing them right now? That is an absurd comment. Paying a crappy player who no in the leauge would touch $3 million a year instead of putting that money towards two decent role players right now is putting them a tough spot. Instead, his lack of talent at doing anything productive will kill them this season as he is turned into a sixth man which is a complete disaster.

Also, if they sign Pollard my head will explode as we dont need any more crappy white players as we’ve already seen through Jiri, Dickau, LaFrentz, Wally, and Scalabrine.

Which reports, Brick? I seriously doubt Oliwakandi would bring any trade interest. When the Celtics signed him last year, it was after the other 29 teams said no thanks, and it’s not like he did anything to revive interest.

I was referring to the reports stating that the Celtics had used part of the MLE to sign House. Why would the Celtics do that, when they could have fit him in under the LLE?

Olowakandi is a tradeable asset?? I didn’t even know he was an asset…He’s a free agent and hasn’t even gotten hired yet, so who would be willing to trade for him?? Since some people think otherwise, might as well package him with scalabrine lol….oh i forgot, this was comin from the same dude who said “ownership is too cheap to open their pockets”

Scal will be fine with this team. We need him to stick his chest out and play some tough d, set some picks and be a good guy. If you can trade him for someone better, well do it, I’m just not sure you can upgrade without giving away Scal and draft picks.

Scal isn’t that big of a deal as a guy to throw in the game when you get a big that is in foul trouble. He actually is smart enough of a defender to be decent at that at least. He is a fairly good 3 point shooter as well when the crowd isn’t booing him. That isn’t something that should happen due to the fact that it just makes him even farther from being worth 3 million. Obviously had they known he would struggle like this they wouldn’t have signed him to that contract, but it is way down the list in things that financially killed the team. Green Bear is right on with his post. Yes we would like his 3 mil to spend other ways, but the other contracts did the damage.

I’d rather pay him 3 mil than Stephon Marbury 20 mil. Or Bobby Sura 3.8 mil. Or Brian Cardinal 5.8 mil, or Kenny Thomas 7.3 mil, or Wally 12mil, or Rafael Araujo 2.4 mil…you get the point.

There are a lot of bad contracts out there, but unless you are the KNnicks with Starbury then you can’t complain too bad. 3 mil is not a big deal for a player that is a solid role player that is a great team guy and has a decent bball IQ regardless if he has the physical skills to be much more than that.