Aldridge is a tough piece. Good enough to help teams but too old for lotto teams to really be interested, at least that would be my assumption. I'd be pretty surprised if the Spurs could get more than a late lotto pick for him.
That team would be incredibly good if they could pull it off. Aldridge is clearly the key here. They need to be able to turn him into something more useful.
Yeah it's great it's just hard to imagine Portland spending assets on a rental when they aren't winning with him next year.
I'm old enough to remember when Al Horford wouldn't resign in Boston and Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook were gonna be Lakers no matter what.
Yeah I distinctly remember Garnett saying he would never come to Boston and then everything changed once the Ray Allen deal happened. Not exactly the same scenario but point being that players say stuff all the time (or their agents do) for all kinds of purposes and change their minds frequently.
Remember when Ainge had Pierce traded for the pick that we were going to make Chris Paul before Pierce refused to go there which killed the deal?
I was trying to think of a non-judgemental way of expressing that, and figured "gardening, bicycles and wine" implied it. Portland is not a city that every black guy in his twenties will love.
I remember when Portland had posters of Rod Strickland, with the caption:
hope he scores 70 in a game in which the team loses...Booker and Jackson can put up 140 and lose by 30
Yup. Hey, if you want to make less money playing for a much shittier organization, go for it. Sounds like both teams got who they wanted anyways.
This has been standard operating procedure in this league for many years. William Wesley lives on.
Oh please. This is a brilliant business move to not be a) Immediately named in trade talks to bring a veteran star to Boston, b) languish on the bench possibly behind any combination of these new stars coming in as well as Jaylen and c) getting limited minutes/touches on an established team.
Oh, please yourself. We all know people do this. The same result could have been achieved without canceling a workout mid flight unless you think that move was the only way to get what they wanted (not likely at all).
HRB's overarching point is right but the execution sucked and certainly stonewalling the Celtics while they had #1 seems weird.
The reports we here now is that this was McDonough controlling this process and the timing to have the Celtics top tier staff kill a day away from their work and alter their sleeping patterns. Blaming a 19-year old kid for this is ludicrous.....it was 100% McDonough and Armstrong controlling this process. McDonough essentially admitted such.
Sorry I continue hearing the kids name mentioned and I'm being sensitive to that as he's a clueless 19-year old who isn't really involved in these decisions aside from doing as he is told. I had it 100% on Armstrong until McDonough came out and "took credit" for running Ainge and other officials across the country for 12 hours during a crucial time for the C's.
