If so, it’s the BEST NEWS EVER!!!

He’s a legit wing off the bench. Instant Offense. Has a great mid-range, pull up game.

Best of all we don’t have to try to guard him anymore. He ate the Cs alive.

This is huge…he is fairly young and can be an asset off the bench behind Ray and Paul for a couple years.

surprise- i bet he was on danny’s a list all along. let’s hope we can keep him. i like his hops and his intensity.

And basically the same garbage, as well. But this is like Christmas in July!!! I really like this guy’s game, and he fills EXACTLY what I think we need -a 2/3 backup for Ray and Paul who can also defend. He’s ready to play 20-30 min off the bench yesterday, and I love him for it.

Can’t say enough about how much I love this move. Now let’s just hope it goes through!

I love this move. A good bakup for PP. I wanted Daniels, Outlaw, or Moon. Hopefully he is healthy, that’s my only one concern. He’s only 28 and will be a good bench player. I would let Davis walk. Now we only need a backup PG and # 18 us ours!!!

He is exactly what we need to complement House.

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The Celtics [team stats] satisfied their search for a backup small forward today, securing a commitment from free agent Marquis Daniels to join the team for the 2009-10 season.

Daniels is expected to sign with the Celtics in one of two ways – either for the $1.9 million biannual exception or in a sign-and-trade deal with Indiana. The Celtics and Pacers are still hashing out those details.

But the Celtics have reached agreement with a potentially valuable role player – one who averaged a career-high 13.8 points for Indiana last season. The problem is that Daniels – often injured during his career – played in only 54 games last season due to a wrist injury that ended his season in mid-March.

The Pacers decided not to pick up his option in June.

That’s not a countdown. That’s the positions Daniels can play. Yes, he can play the point with the second unit if need be, and he can play it way better than Tony Allen.

If Bill Walker or JR Giddens is ready for prime time, Daniels con conceivably see time as the backup PG, assuming DA strikes out on signing a competent backup PG again this year. Daniels can guard the opposing SG and House can check the PG.

Of course, Daniels can play the SG or SF. Very nice pickup. Ainge has signed two guys who last year earned $21m for around 1/3 that amount. Two great value signings, which is paramount when your team is paying their top three players $56m combined.

Now, if DA can scoop up the recently bought out Earl Watson for the backup PG job, his great summer will continue. Then either sign BBD, or move him and the Scal/TA/Pruitt flotsam for a 4th big, and the team’s good to go.

It is official, it’s on the front page of Celtics Blog.

Welcome to the Bean lil Wayne… oops I meant Marquis Daniel… HA!

Barring unforeseen injuries, we’ve set ourselves up as well as we can to win the title next season, assuming Baby resigns (and that’s becoming more and more likely). Well done Danny. Never doubted you a second.

Without engendering too much hubris, I’d like to note that all the Danny AInge haters are conspicuously absent from this thread so far. Well, let me say it then: the man had a plan. He had a plan all along. And now it cannot be denied.

Nothing. Which is why I don’t want him to play that position. Hes a 2/1 on a team that cares about defense.

I too love this move. So versatile, exactly what you want out of a bench guy. One question: I remember Daniels being such a hot ticket four years ago. How come he’s not a bigger deal by now? Just curious. I figured his star would’ve been shining brighter now.

His star hasn’t risen because he can’t stroke the 3ball. He got a nice contract after a big rookie season as an undrafted player (almost a point every two minutes on nearly 50% shooting, with passing skills and good defense) when he signed for 5 years and $30m with the Mavs. If he added the threeball to his arsenal, he would have been a more coveted player.

I don’t like him as a $7m a year player, but I love him as a $1.9m bench guy..

just got a tweet from realgm.com after he clear waivers, we’ll get our point guard thru trade i guess

Well, lets hope he has healed completely from that wrist injury. He couldnt even dribble the ball this past March, so he said.

That will NOT be happening here!!!!

… this has no effect on efforts to re-sign Big Baby, right? I mean, if we somehow by some fluke of luck retain Big Baby — which I really believe to be a looooongshot — I LOVE our chances against the Lakers now.

Very good move. My only concern is that we still need a 3 strong enough to give us 5-10 minutes on LeBron. Daniels can play some 3, but he’s way too light to cover Lebron. Walker is the only one who might be athletic and strong enough to try.

Chad Ford is tweeting that Earl Watson is going to sign with Indy. Let’s hope Danny Ainge can jump in the way ot that signing. I guess if Indy throws the BAE at him, he might go for the money, but the vet minimum + a Finals playoff share + potentially one decent last multi-year contract after playing for the champs might make more sense economically in the long run.

Maybe Wayson should ask former teammate James Posey what kind of a payday one bargain year on the Celtics can lead to.

MD is a defensive minded player, he’s a good add to the C Team! =)

If Daniels can regain the form he showed with Dallas, the Celtics got a steal.

As for Watson, he’s just slightly less terrible than Marbury.

If Daniels does sign, it means that TA, Giddens and Walker all become very, very expendible.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2009/07/17/celtics_sign_daniels/

Why isn’t comcast talking about this pickup?

Where we decided to lay in, and Celtics news erupts, so I’m hitting the refresh button every five minutes — on comments, no less!!! LOL. With all due respect…
CelticinOrlando, you read my mind. I thought Scal — the perennial whipping boy — did an admirable comeback in the playoffs and regained my respect. Tony Allen? Ugh! Go away (but give us some return value on your way out the door).

Especially if they keep BBD.

I think they could get by with Rasheed, BBD and Scal as the backup frontcourt.

Daniels is a nice pickup at the swing spot. I like this. See Danny does read CB, he’s building a bench.

if we must, we must. But it would be HUGE not to have to trade a single contract. They are all so valuable come feb. Scal, Tony, House, Giddens, Walker, Pruitt we have no idea what we can get for any combination of these players to bolster the team in Feb.

There will be a ton of teams looking to trade for 6 mil in expiring contracts, thats scal and tony right there.

remove House from that list. He’s more than just a contract.

Daniels is like a mini Mikki Moore, he could be a bust, he is a horrible defender who can’t shoot.

We are NOT building a championship team. We are building a DYNASTY!!! Get ready for 2009-10 the year the Celtics wipe everybody off the map!! We are going to crush everybody. This team is super stacked Big Names include:KG,PP,Ray,Sheed,Perk,Rondo,Marquis,BBD plus House,Powe, TA. We are light years ahead of the Lakers and these other scrubs like Cavs and Magic. Daniels is a really good player, he was Indiana’s 4th or 5th best guy last year. My question is this. What is the difference between Trevor Ariza and Daniels. If anything Daniels has better statistics, so why are people paying $8 mil for Ariza and we get Daniels for $2 mil. This is a steal. LETS GO BOSTON CELTICS THE DYNASTY YEARS 2007-2012.

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Hey folks don’t get too excited yet. We have to see if MD can sustain his numbers of last year.

Brickowski is right on ………Watson is just less terrible than Marbury. I’ve watched him play at least 25 games and he’s inconsistent and doesn’t play good defense.

Remember we still need that other BIG to back-up our three BIGS. This will be the challenge and I hope that DA can swing a trade for a complementary player like Hakim Warrick or Chris Wilcox. We have some young players who have produced good numbers at the NBDL and maybe they can be swapped for either of these players!!

from last year’s team that almost went to the ECF and could have gone to or even won the finals we have gained Kevin Garnett, Rasheed Wallace, and Marquis Daniels. While losing nobody of importance. This=titles, many many titles.

This is fantastic! Didn’t think we had a shot at him for what we could offer, great job DA! Next step is trimming the now dead weight of Giddens and Pruitt.

FINALLY!!

The guy made 6.3 million last year. Can he really be willing to sign for 1.9?

I would watch MD at Dallas and thought you had better moves to the cup than Josh Howard. He’s silky smooth on the penetration and drives with fearlessness. This pickup was a steal.