Period. I don’t see any trade for Ray that will make the team better. Expiring his contract won’t make the team better. Let’s just decide to keep Ray here and move on to the real needs of the team. A quality backup at Center, at PG, and for Pierce. Moving Ray (or Rondo) does not improve this team. Getting KG better healthwise does.

The only future we need to worry right now is getting that 18th banner..Oh yeah!

stay ray. the contract is nice to move, but the person and what he brings belongs.

Come on Ray, fess up, you know there is no way you are earning the $19M. So it is time now for you to show the love back and give us our own Celtic discount.

Go to management and get a 2 year extension at $5M per. KG feel into our lap and we have this great window. The only way to keep this window open is to get or keep quality youngsters while the big 3 give their own discount back to the organization.

Posey signed for less that what other teams offered to get us a ring. Rondo is miserably underpaid as of today due to the salary structure. Time for you Ray to put your future money where your mouth is.

This team won 62 games while missing it’s defensive anchor for a third of the season, it’s best bench wing defender for a quarter of the season, and a talented though erratic point guard. Why does anyone want to blow this thing up?

Pay attention to our “real” needs which are quality backups and bench contributors. Our starting lineup is neither too old nor backsliding. Glenn Davis, while he really performed for us last year, is not a starter. Let him test the free agent market and decide for himself if he wants to come back to Boston to a backup position. Don’t waste your time worrying about a few trade happy bloggers.

I think Dannny would consider that trade for Ray. Andris is a Starting Center who averages a double double who could spell both Perk and KG to keep KG’s minutes down which would help ALOT. We could then use the 7th pick to get bpa. The only problem there is that we wont be better at sg next year unless we can sign a free agent. But if we did that could be pretty good. That would fix our front court for till KG is gone. Then all we need to do is find a backup for pierce/rondo and a decent starter at sg. Im sure we could trade Scal and T. Allen for a pretty good sg that could start with house as the backup. Then we have the full mle for sf and pg backups. Thats not even taking into account the contributions of Bill Walker (who i think could get 10 mpg or so this year ) / Giddens/ Pruitt (who i think could be the backup pg)/ 7th pick rookie. This trade would be contingent on their being a decent sg that we could trade for or find in free agency of course along with the pickups of the other 2 backups i mentioned but i think thats a good deal for us to contend now and help the future alot.