No team, including the Celtics, are willing to pay BBD what he thinks he is worth. It’s a shame too, b/c I think the Nets have some value we could obtain in such a S&T.

If BBD comes back to the C’s next season I hope it’s under the qualifying offer.

Just read that the Net’s assistant coaches took or agreed to a drop in pay so none of them would be let go. Today some of the assistants are looking to go elsewhere. If things are that bad how can they pay Baby? Also, about the rumored deal with Detroit: a few days ago Ainge made the offer. Today it was Detroit who made the offer. Rumors are just great. I think, just as there is a trade deadline, there needs to be a rumor deadline. And let’s make it today.

Ainge seems to be handling this Glen Davis business just perfectly. He expressed his understanding that Davis had to go out and test the free agent market. He repeatedly expressed the team’s keen desire to have Davis back, but signaled his willingness to do a worthwhile sign and trade deal with another team. And now that Davis’s understanding of his true market worth is being brought down to earth by the inactivity of other teams, he soon should be ready to sign for something reasonable.

It’s hard to handle such a situation without a mis-step along the way. In this day and age, with 24 hour media coverage, it’s easy to say something publicly that the player could resent for years. Ainge is doing a fine job.

say $3Mil, so we can match and move on.

The fact that he is holding out can’t sit well with the big 3 or Rasheed, who just took a huge paycut to play for another ring or two. I am not sure how well he will be recieved in the locker room after all this. Maybe our best bet is to do a s&t and get something for him? I love his game and think he will help us alot as our 4th big but you have to wonder how the rest of the team views him now. I realize it is business but take a decent contract now, get another ring or two, then be greedy and get paid on a bad team!!

What would it take to make a run at Odom? lol

Allen, Pierce, KG, Sheed have all battled over contracts (or gotten a max deal and been happy.) There is no sense in them getting upset at a guy who has made a fraction of there pay and helped them.

In terms of where this is going, I think we’re down to two possibilities:

1. S&T
2. Qualifying Offer

Based on BBD’s crumbling value, I don’t think any team will offer enough to scare away the C’s from matching. And I don’t think any team will offer a salary that they know the C’s will match – no one wants to spend a week in purgatory. So instead teams will try and work out a S&T – but the C’s alternative (letting BBD sign the QO) is a good option for them, so they can try and extract real value from the S&T and if it falls through no biggy.

I’d say its 75% BBD is back for the QO.

No sign and trade is going to happen because Danny doesn’t want to trade him. In the end BBD is going to sign the qualifying offer and be a free agent next year.

on teams making offers? Is it training camp or the start of the season? A date? I’m just wondering because it may get to a point where a team that hasn’t found anybody when BBD is the last viable thing on the market doesn’t mind having the money tied up anymore with a deal they fear the Celts might match.

Right now, it seems to be working that no other teams want to tie up that cash, but will it get to a point that tying up that cash isn’t such a big deal and so someone just throws an offer out there and forces the Cs to match?

What was the qualifying offer amount that we made to Glen??