Celtics Withdraw Qualifying Offer; Jeff Green Unrestricted Free Agent

Just sounds like paperwork protocol. We still can pay him more than anyone else but retain the right not to pay him anything at all. Max flexibility, really, for Celts and a little more flex for Green. Both sides win something.. All deals should go like that.

Time to move on…that trade was great. Traded Perk for nothing. Should have let him stay on and watched him leave at the end of the year.

Green will either be signed by us next year or S&T’d by us since we can pay him the most.

………I’ve read that after the surgery, his plans are to spend time travelling and being around the Cs.

Danny continues to amaze me….negatively

This is a classy move that gives Green what he would have had next offseason had he been healthy. The Celtics are giving to him all his career opportunities without any delays or limits caused by his aneurysm. Great move for his feelings in the long run about the Celtics. It’s a risk for the Celts, but one where they show confidence in themselves and in Green. And he seems like he wants to continue his connections to the team during his recovery from surgery, a good sign about how he feels about the team and how they have dealt with him in a difficult time..

As others have said the Celts still have sign and trade options so they still get value from the Perkins trade, if he wants to go elsewhere. They can offer him more than other teams as well and if he signs here, he will be here because he wants to be here, enhancing their long term relations. And the good intangibles it creates probably enhance their chances to resign him and enhance how other free agents see the way Celtics organization treats its players. The team does a good thing and player and team gain from it.

As for those not as smart or informed as they think they are, their superficial thinking and their shooting from the hip here with naive negativity are par for the course for them.

This is a classy move that gives Green what he would have had next offseason had he been healthy. The Celtics are giving to him all his career opportunities without any delays or limits caused by his aneurysm. Great move for his feelings in the long run about the Celtics. It’s a risk for the Celts, but one where they show confidence in themselves and in Green. And he seems like he wants to continue his connections to the team during his recovery from surgery, a good sign about how he feels about the team and how they have dealt with him in a difficult time..

As others have said the Celts still have sign and trade options so they still get value from the Perkins trade, if he wants to go elsewhere. They can offer him more than other teams as well and if he signs here, he will be here because he wants to be here, enhancing their long term relations. And the good intangibles it creates probably enhance their chances to resign him and enhance how other free agents see the way Celtics organization treats its players. The team does a good thing and player and team gain from it.

As for those not as smart or informed as they think they are, their superficial thinking and their shooting from the hip here with naive negativity are par for the course for them.

See Green is here to help garnet and paul rest but Doc didt cut their time enough anyway so Green struggles coming off bench he is would be a better fit now with the second unit but .J ONeal needs to be traded or cut. Right now Kwame Brown is a better option than ONeal and Sashia P is a worst option than. Delante West . Just think. D Rose did and Rondo step up. Rose owns Paul ,Williams ,Westbrook but Rondo was his best match up. So again where was the love He is only lacking in jumpshooting but in a rythem offense he don’t keep a rythem but doing everything else well. Yeah Dan boy .that’s right up there with joe johnson trade of dumb moves. THUMBS DOWN TO THE GM and team President

I love you DOC and I happy that you are still our coach but if you don’t like ONeal mins of no production and the offense flow is not there try starting the DeLeague Center and play Jj at small with Rondo and Moore can play point and shoot shake up the roster .I would love to see Rondo ,Moore and JJ with Bass and Wilcox. Just running and pressing the ball while trapping on half court teamm giving Pierce ,Allen, and KG rest to close out the end of Quarters

does this pave the way for the Celtics to be able to offer Green—and for Green to be able to accept—a contract next year below the qualifying offer?

I can’t believe that the Celtics are actually considering bring back McCarty and/or Blount, but any port in a storm.

that this was had more to do with making David Falk happy, than having anything to do with Green.

Anyway, I don’t have a strong feeling that Green is coming back from this. I wish him good health, but as a team, I think we need to move on.