Memphis May Facilitate Sign and Trade?

by Jeff Clark on Aug 22, 2009 7:57 AM EDT in Rumors Comment 23 comments

In other Celtics news, the long-awaited Marquis Daniels trade still isn’t official, as the C’s and Pacers search for a third team to facilitate the process.

Danny Ainge expects things to be resolved by next week, when Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace gets back from vacation.

He also reports:

Earlier this week, former Celtic Bruce Bowen reportedly turned down an offer to come back to Boston. Instead, Bowen will now likely sit until February

Update: Upon further review, I'm not sure how much of this you can take for news because it appears to be a joke article (take that however you like).

0 recs | Comment 23 comments | Share

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

There's nobody cheap on Memphis' roster that Philly would like...

So I imagine the deal would look something like this:

Boston trades: Tony Allen, cash
Memphis trades: Heavily protected #2

This creates a $2.5 million trade exception for Boston. The Celts could then use that trade exception to sign Daniels to a deal paying up to $2.6 million (the value of the trade exception + $100k). The Celts could give Indiana cash for it’s troubles, or the creation of a trade exception for Indiana may be enough.

All the negativity in this town sucks. It sucks, and it stinks, and it sucks. - Rick Pitino

by Roy_Hobbs on Aug 22, 2009 8:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Makes too much sense to actually happen.

Assuming we gave them $2.5M cash, they’d get Tony Allen for free. Celtics would be paying Daniels $2.5M and Memphis $2.5M to take Tony off our hands, but we’d only be paying luxury tax on $2.5M. Total cost would be $7.5M.

If we sign Daniels at the LLE and can’t unload TA, we’re paying ~$4.5M in salary, all taxable, for a total cost of $9.0M – more money AND less roster flexibility.

That’s assuming we gave Memphis TA’s full salary; maybe they’d be willing to do that deal if we only paid $1.5M – $2.0M (effectively making their cost for having TA the same as if they had signed him to a vet-min contract).

In any case, there’s definite possibilities for a small win-win-win trade.

by theBird on Aug 22, 2009 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Memphis would probably cut Tony.

by Surferdad on Aug 22, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Im positive the Memphis thing is a joke

by Marqui on Aug 22, 2009 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

given the nature of the other posts in the blurb I think this is a joke seeing how Wallace has jumped into trades this summer for no real reason at all.

by im right on Aug 22, 2009 8:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I just read the article...

And you guys are right: it’s probably a joke. That being said, Memphis makes a ton of sense here, as does OKC. They get cash and a player who could fit in their rotation and we get a trade exception, which we flip to Indy.

All the negativity in this town sucks. It sucks, and it stinks, and it sucks. - Rick Pitino

by Roy_Hobbs on Aug 22, 2009 8:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

maybe so

I stopped reading after the classless “groin punch” joke

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" Henry V

by Jeff Clark on Aug 22, 2009 8:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Makes Sense

The deal you describe makes alot of sense. I could also see a larger Memphis, Indiana Boston deal with Jaric, Conley and perhaps some other pieces moving to Indiana, TJ ford and TA or Scalabrine moving to Memphis, and Marquis Daniels coming to Boston in a sign and trade.

I don’t think its a secret that Indiana would like to move Ford, who is talented but injury prone, and also (from some reports I’ve seen) a priclky individual who is difficult to coach..

by Brickowski on Aug 22, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yup...

every bullet in the article is formatted so that the first sentence is a real news blurb, and the following sentence is a tongue- in-cheek joke. Sentence 1: Padroia had a kid, Sentence 2: They will wear the same clothes.

So yes, it’s a joke, the only news we can take from it is that Ainge expects to wrap things up on the Daniels deal (that’s right, you guessed it) next week…

www.greentownsfinest.com

by Reggies Ghost on Aug 22, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I do belive that the story was meant as a joke.

Levine would report news in the first part of each segment and crack a joke in the second. Notice:

“Dustin Pedroia missed two games this week in Toronto to witness the birth of his first son, Dylan.

Mother and child are reportedly both well, while father and child are reportedly already sharing a wardrobe

On Wednesday, for Red Sox pitcher John Smoltz officially signed with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Smoltz’s agent said that the future Hall of Famer also received quality offers from the Marlins, the Dodgers and the Athens A’s of Northeast Georgia‘s 65 and older coed softball league.

.On Monday, the Patriots traded defensive end Le Kevin Smith to Broncos in exchange for a 2010 fifth round pick.

Bill Belichick said he was more than happy to strike a deal with former coordinator Josh McDaniels because "he‘s one of the only people in the league who’s ever heard of Le Kevin Smith."

by nickagneta on Aug 22, 2009 8:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If you have a problem to make a trade successful, just contact Chris Wallace.

I can’t help but think that Bill Simmons is right in his columns when he claims that Chris Wallace is now officially the guy to contact if you want to make a trade that improve your team while hurting the Grizzlies.

I hope the Daniels story gets resolved next week, and that we can acquire him by a trade with Indiana and Memphis. I like the trade exception solution explained by Roy above. How many years could Danny give to Daniels on his contract in this scenario?

by Drucci on Aug 22, 2009 8:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He could give him up to six, Drucci

Although that’s obviously pretty unlikely. My prediction would be no more than three years.

All the negativity in this town sucks. It sucks, and it stinks, and it sucks. - Rick Pitino

by Roy_Hobbs on Aug 22, 2009 8:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chris Wallace is vacationing in Los Angeles....

Where the Lakers are fitting him for a championship ring…in appreciation for the Gasol-Kwame Brown trade!

If he likes his new ring…he`ll be sending Mayo & Gay to LA for Farmar or Sascha!

by Title 18 on Aug 22, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

please please please take tony allen

by celticinorlando on Aug 22, 2009 8:09 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the answer, Roy.

Six years is clearly not going to happen but it would be great to have Marquis locked for three years. We wouldn’t have to worry about the backup wing situation every summer.

Nick’s post about the usual jokes made by Devine makes me think that this was just a joke, unfortunately, but I still have a little hope that Memphis will be involved. Who knows?

by Drucci on Aug 22, 2009 8:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I read it as a joke...

…but it would be great if it was true. We need a resolution of this case before we can move on another potential moves or signings (back up PG, Bowen…or Swift..)

by greenwise on Aug 22, 2009 8:45 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

back up PG, Bowen… or NO SWIFT…

by Mike-Dub on Aug 22, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rich and Nick are jokesters ...

Check out their “Dino Radja Experience” podcast, so it’s a pretty safe bet you can file this under the “going for humor rather than factual accuracy” category …

And who doesn’t love a good “groin punch” joke?

by Alessandro on Aug 22, 2009 8:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

not fond of it when it is about his wife

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" Henry V

by Jeff Clark on Aug 22, 2009 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It does make sense

Though I still think it might go something like this

To Boston: Marquis Daniels
To Memphis: Tony Allen and $1MM in cash from Boston
To Indiana: Trade Exception and a future 2nd round pick from Boston

Memphis gets Allen for $1.5MM per year utilizing their cap space, Boston saves some cash because of luxury tax purposes, and Indiana effectively just brokers the deal securing a late 2nd round pick for their problems.

Maybe you include Bill Walker instead of the 2nd round pick in order to get Daniels a little higher salary.

by timepiece33 on Aug 22, 2009 11:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Lol

Are people really claiming the article’s a joke just because of the groin jab? No offense, but that’s just soft. : \ Most of you seem to consider Bowen dirty as it is.

As far as I see, Rich is just reporting news while getting a few punchlines in. Besides, we can all just say he was wrong later if nothing gets sorted out.

by Tai on Aug 22, 2009 1:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs