Rumor: Big Baby To New Jersey?

And I thought the players we had to offer were bad…

There are guys playing wheelchair basketball with better lateral mobility than Yi JianLian. If you want to win a championship, just match any offer for BBD.

The guy on NJ’s roster who makes the most sense for the Celtics is Rafer Alston, although I don’t see any sensible way to make the salaries match in a sign and trade for BBD, given the base year compensation rules.

Yi? He sucks.

Are you kidding me? He’s terrible.
What a disaster if we trade Baby for Yi.

Ainge simply can’t let go of the stiffs he covets, can he?

I wouldn’t be opposed to this even though I think he sucks. I’d play him solely as a PF. His contract is easily tradeable.

He’s also young and should be getting stronger, building his physique. I’m sure he can play better than what he has shown so far.

i don’t know if or what danny sees in yi who is a big stiff- no fluidity. this offseason is just 1 rumor after another-interesting but too many flights of fancy and not enough meat tho sheed is a gem and if daniels gets here, maybe the player we all wanted tony to be.

He had 8.6 pts and 5.3 boards in only 23 min a game last year. That’s two consecutive seasons with those numbers. His stats the past 2 years are better than either one of BBD’s. Sure he needs to improve defensively and shoot a better percentage, however he shoots at LEAST as well as BBD does from the outside. We have just the coaching staff to help this kid get better. As far as upside goes he has a lot more than BBD does. Allowing him to get just a few minutes for a couple years off the bench behind KG and Rasheed would be a great move. I’d do this in a hearbeat!

Rumor = mentioned by fans on a discussion forum.

Please everyone, do not talk like this is something Danny is trying to do. There is not evidence that it is.

who is that?

Fafnir and I went to go see him at a Charity game but he was awol. Faffy had emailed one of the organizers earlier in the week to ask about baby. He just got an email from the guy saying that Baby apologized for missing the Celtics fans who came. Baby said he got a call from Ainge and had to go back to Boston for contract discussion. So maybe a sign and trade is Imminent. If it’s not just for Yi, I can see it happening. If Jersey wants to pay Baby 4 mil a year, they can have him.

keyon dooling and sean williams. they would both fit well with the current roster. I might take Yi but he would have to be packaged with at least one of the other guys, and i don’t think NJ would ever give up all the dough he makes them.

Dooling and williams would probably be worth big baby tho, although we would lose some valuable scoring from BBD.

I would take Yi in a heartbeat. I think he’s got great potential still and would be part of the core in a few years after the Big 3 (and Sheed) get older. All he needs is some confidence and a good coaching staff. KG and Sheed would also be great mentors for him. I think he could develop into a similar type of player. They are all tall, long, very athletic, agile and good shooters from the outside.

for BBD in a S and T. They’d have to take on another player from the Cs to make the numbers work, because BBD is a BYC player, and the Nets don’t have any roster room. They could take back Scal to make the numbers work and send Yi and a minimum guy like Chris Douglas Roberts back, but they’d be adding a couple million in payroll, which isn’t likely.

They might be willing to do Dooling and Sean Williams for Scal and BBD if the Cs send a few million their way. They could get Dooling off their books next year, and add a widebody they need in BBD for around $3m a year, a reasonable number on their cap next year, $800k less than what Dooling would have gotten.

Dooling is the odd man out on a roster with Devin Harris and Rafer Alston.

8 million sorry.

If htere’s any truth to this I’d go for Yi. I watched him play on his team in china before his draft and liked what I saw. He’s a role player. Not a main guy. I think he’d fit in well in boston.

i would do a deal for dooling and jianlian. although i remember ray allen and dooling getting in an altercation where a punch or two was thrown in a game a few years back. i wonder if this would affect the (possible) deal or not.

NO THANKS

Weird. The NES 24/7 writer first says “Glen Davis will most likely be in a Nets uniform next season” and mentions Justin of CSL as saying “the deal is essentially done”, but in the same sentence says Ainge will pull the trigger only if we can get somebody useful (which better make sense). So if the deal is “essentially done”, how come Ainge doesn’t even know who he’s getting back?

Then he also says “the Celtics will win either way by either keeping Davis at a price they want or by adding a piece from NJ”. So is the deal “essentially done” or is it just a vague romor?

I hope the BBD saga ends very soon!

First of all, none of you realize how good Yi will be, or how much he’s already built up his body.

Second, why the hell would we trade Yi for Big Baby? We need a “moose” and I’d love to get BBD, but he’s not even in Yi’s class as a bball player.

I don’t know, but I really have a feeling that something like BBD+Scal+Pruitt for Sean Williams/Dooling/Najera could materialize very soon.

Or BBD for Yi straight up or Najera+pick.

Nobody here posting made any sense what so ever… just a bunch of guys calling each other names over rumors… we’re all here for the same cause so ease up on one another…. now basketball talk: :-)

If Yi came over, it would be the equivalent of BBD b/c HE TOO prefers to SHOOT from the outside over banging inside (b/c of hes 6’6)…. And Yi CAN bang inside (w/more efficeincy than BBD b/c of his height) but he plays along side Lopez who is a LEGIT banger…theoretically, they cant swap places on the floor and expect to keep things spaced out for good offense.
As far as coaching goes, no diss to LawrenceFrank but I think Doc knows what to do w/his pieces (especially since he has better ones, yea) and if he had a problem like Yi (sarcasm for you negative pundits), Im sure he’d have room for a 7ft’r who can post up AND shoot it decent from 15-20ft… thats just not a problem Id want on my basketball team… As a basketball fan and a REALIST, Im afraid of what you really want. (keyon doolng?GARBAGE!)

the Cs are trying to get involved on any boozer deal.