Ainge Not Interested in Gary Payton

About bleeding time Ainge came out and ended this Payton nonsense.

I hope Ainge is looking somewhere for back-up point, everytime Tony Allen brings the ball up court it is an adventure.

GP is too old and he’d be a bad influence on this team with all his smack talking….. If you’re going to smack talk, you better back it up and at his age I don’t think he could back it up.

No brainer of a decision. The Gary Payton who previously played for the Celtics and for Miami is the absolute antithesis of what this year’s team is about.

I like gp but we can do better and we’re still winning games so there’s no need for danny to panic. I would like to see pruitt get some burn

Yeah, they should give Pruitt some minutes….. from what I’ve seen so far this year and when he was in the NBDL, kid knows how to play….. we might have our backup point guard already on this roster and don’t even know about it.

“Aaron Goodwin, the agent for Gary Payton, met with Boston GM Danny Ainge on the Celtics’ recent West Coast trip, trying to sell him on bringing back the Glove to back up Rajon Rondo, a source said.
No, Ainge isn’t going there.”

Thank God!!

Gotta love the vets coming out of the woodwork for a shot at a possible ring. Having said that, kudos to Danny for just saying no

im glad danny dosent want payton. we should wait and see who comes available maybe damon stodemire gets bought out or maybe we wait to see if cassel gets bought out.

Anyone else kind of skeptical of this? It’s not exactly like the writer quoted Ainge or anything. Couldn’t it be pure speculation?

Thank God!!!
I think we need to see what Pruitt can do.
Heck look what we found in Big Baby and maybe this guy is another diamond in the ruff.
I agree he has done a respectible job in NBDL and he can dribble the ball while Tony is an adventure.

here’s the link. it’s on the small column inside the aritcle.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-lastshot010408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

it definitely sounds like just speculation, judging from the rest of the stories.

When the trades were made this summer some, the people opposed to the trade said we were trading our future for the present. Some agreed at the time some didn’t. Well we now have now and some people, rightly so, say we need to keep our eye on the future. Rondo and BBD are now the future in place. Rondo needs to remain the starter. Payton will not accept a backup role and our current backups are getting the job done, despite the fact that TA sometimes gets out of control. As much as some would like us to be a running team we are not. We’re a half court team and the half court offense is controlled by KG and PP. I like what we have now. Any change would need to be an upgrade. If the right thing comes along at the right price and we can make a deal or sign someone I think Danny would do it. He won’t make a deal that won’t improve the team and the emphasis is on the now.

said: Anyone else kind of skeptical of this? It’s not exactly like the writer quoted Ainge or anything. Couldn’t it be pure speculation?[/quote]

The fact is we have no idea what was said or discussed. As I read it, this was simply someone quoting someone else who was reporting the inclination of yet a third person “source” who said something based on alleged first or perhaps second person information.

I feel the same way. Hopefully Ainge agrees with the source’s assessment.

Rondo and BBD are now the future in place.

Let’s hope this isn’t the future of the Celtics. Both those guys are rotation players or borderline starters.

we need a taller backup pg without an ego who gets to play as often as pollard does- strictly situational.