Celtics Looked Into Delonte West

Had to have been right out of the gate. In many ways bringing Delonte back into the fold would have made great sense, but I can’t see it happening now that they resigned House & Tony.

Can you imagine West & Posey instead of House & Allen?

Let’s offer Scal…I’m sure they’d do it in a heartbeat ;)

i hope they bring dw back when he is no longer restricted

What would be Delonte’s role on this team? He couldn’t beat out Rondo for the starting job. He’s a better defender than House, but I think House is the better shooter. And he’s not worth the 5 year mid level exception. If we were going to do that we could’ve just resigned Posey. Just another rumor to me.

I agree with Truegreen, good hustling player but we don’t need him for the money or the role he wants.

Well, we don’t know the money he wants. He was allegedly offered a 2 yr deal in Moscow for 5 million a year. A five-year deal starting at around 4 million seems fair— that’s a little less than what John Salmons got.

My guess is that they looked into Delonte before they resigned House. He would have been a House replacement, not a Tony Allen replacement.

IMHO Delonte should just take the qualifying offer if he doesn’t want to go to Russia. The Cavs might try to bury him on the bench, but not if they want to win. And then he can get his payday in a year.

Alot of teams are playing hardball with their restricted free agents; e.g. Atlanta with Josh Smith.

I doubt they have Popeyes Chicken in Moscow…and skinny dipping, well, that would just be painful.

DW has worked hard to become a better player and will help any team he goes to. He is one of those all around type players like Posey.

I can understand why the Cavs don’t want to give Delonte $5M plus. He’s not worth it and it makes no sense to lock up two backup point guards (West, Gibson) to long term deals when they really need a legitimate starting point guard.

As far as the Celtics getting West, not sure why Danny would want him. He is not going to like backing up Rondo (as he didn’t when he was here) and he is not going to get minutes over Tony Allen either, especially if Tony plays the way I expect him to. The little playing time he would get is not worth $5M. He would be an overpaid bench player.

D West was easy to like but he broke easily too and I think had injury problems continue with Cavs. I prefer Eddie over Delonte and much easier to negotiate with Eddie since no ne else held the match card as Cavs do with D West

I wonder if this happened before they signed House & Tony. (probably)

I’d say certainly.

Wait a minute! What happened to Delonte threatening to go to Moscow? If he and the Cavs don’t come to terms, why not go oversees and make his money? No one is going to give him $5M unless the Cavs do and it doesn’t appear they want to do that.

Read the title over. Celtics LOOKED in to Delonte West. Notice the past tense. It was obviously before the House and Allen signings. Too bad the sign and trade never came to fruition. I love Delonte and I was pushing for him every chance I got.

i miss d west. he can play d. can’t go right. he has grit and is not afraid ans is a good combo. i’d take him back pronto.

If you were Cleveland, wouldn’t you rather have given those dollars to Delonte than to Boobie? I love D.West, but he’s a backup combo guard (a definate rotation player on a good team, though) and it really doesn’t make sense for Cleveland to have two of those guys. Boobie’s the better shooter and has a FAR better nickname, but I’d take Delonte any day of the week.

I can actually see Delonte going to Moscow for a year, just for the hell of it. If he did, and came back next summer, would Cleveland still have his rights? Would he still be a restricted FA, or unrestricted?