Knowing Danny, I think this was all part of the plan when they signed him – an asset to use.

if we can somehow use Sheed’s contract in a package to get Smith, then that’d be an awesome move for us (because let’s face it, as much as a lot of us want Lee…some team will prob offer him more than we can afford).

Hey, I was as frustrated with Sheed as anyone last season. But are our other options at center really better than Sheed? Brad Miller? Shaq? Brandon Haywood?

I suppose the trade option is a good news, but I was actually kind of hoping he would come back, if even just to hold down the fort until Perk is back.

Sounds more like they are urging and pushing him into a retirement as much as they tried to orignally recruit him…
I actually agree with the above poster, as frustrating as sheed was, hes a better backup center then anyone else on the market

Shaq for the MLE for 1 or 2 years.

Sheed, and maybe another player, for the best wing player we can aquire.

Perk runs the floor better than Shaq but Shaq is not prone to dribble first like Perk before putting it in the hoop. Shaq can still rebound as well. If we can get him for the MLE, do it. He must remember Kobe’s comment after the finals about having more rings than him. That enough should be motivation to sign with us, unless he goes back to Cleveland if James does. Question then is, who can we afford to back him up until Perk returns??

Rashaul Butler, formerly of the Clippers

thanks for assisting the team, sheed. i would love josh smith who in some ways is more valuable than joe johnson, but we won’t get him. butler can bound, and don’t knock miller as a center. hecan pass and shoot.

but I think Miller will want full MLE or very close to it and Ainge won’t end up wanting to give it all to him. So he will explore other options and end up at, as you say, 3rd or 4th option on Butler. That’s why I said sleeper pick, no one’s mentioned him.

I’m on the bandwagon with ya!!!! Go Udonis!!!!

1) The team will probably try for most of the 2010-2011 regular season, which will give me something to watch.
2) We can use the MLE to possibly get Shaq, who I think will fit in better with this team from a strategy standpoint.
3) Getting Shaq frees up BBD in a trade, and he’s a pretty good trade asset.
4) Sheed’s retiring contract really does have a lot of value, especially if we package it with cash, Davis, low costs guys, etc. I doubt we can get Josh Smith, but if so… wow.. I’d do that all day.

I think with Pierce’s restructured contract the ownership now has a good amount of extra $$ to spend on a player we get back in a Sheed trade, and this could help us to get younger too!

Because there could be lots of teams out there with cap space who otherwise (if they had signed FAs) might have been looking for ways to cut some salary in order to avoid the luxury tax.

I guess what I’m asking is, can anyone break down which teams may be desperate to shave salary in the next few weeks (based on their actual roster salary, not just “teams with players I like”), and what can those teams send back in return for Sheed?

after Christmas

Why not… Thought I’d pop in my 2 cents….

Rasheed for Hasheem Thabeet. Course, this is a gamble, but at least it’s a 7 ft gamble. The good news is that we’d have his rights and could dump him by not picking up his option or flip him again possibly as an expiring contract if we didn’t pickup his option.

The Celtics still need to replace James Posey. So however they do it, they need to find someone who can defend and is great at roaming and hitting 3’s (nate just doesn’t fill this role).