Report: Marbury doesn't foresee return to Celts

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Geoff

He's a terrific young support player, but no, he's nowhere near ready to have a team built around him. I'll put it this way: I'm not nearly as bummed about losing him as I'm happy about gaining Artest, if that tells you anything.

I'm not disappointed to get him, but I'm much more interested in what the Rockets end up looking like overall. While I know no team stays identical between two seasons, it looks like the Rockets will change a lot, and not at all by choice. We can only hope they make the best of it.

Turko update

>> Turkoglu's decision to go to the Toronto Raptors sent shock waves throughout the NBA as he apparently became the first player to renege on an agreement in principal since Carlos Boozer left Cleveland for Utah in 2004. <<<

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4305310

Yep, I saw that.

I don't want to start a new thread just for this, so I'm posting it here.

When I turned on the TV today it was 6-6 in the 5th set at Wimbledon, so I thought "cool, I'll catch the last game here and see what happens."

...the equivalent of over 2 1/2 SETS later... yikes. Pretty great match today.

Many of us have become friends in the ten years we've been here, and occasionally we like to talk about things other than keyboards.



Hardly.

This is the forum's description, found on the forum summary page:


...so sports actually is on topic here.

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dB

Sheed to the Celtics...

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If they re-sign Glenn 'Big Baby' Rice then it's a good move. If they let Glenn Rice go then this is a weird desperate move to grab one last championship under Ray Allen's contract.

You mean Glen Davis?

Anyway, I see this as more of an insurance policy against KG's knee.

Agreed.

Besides, Big Baby play center, not forward like Sheed and KG...

dB

He actually plays both. In their rotation, when KG was out, he'd start at PF with Perk at C, then rotate to C with Scal at PF.

Ainge was interviewed (at Boston.com) and Davis will get signed (this makes sense at worst they match an offer and trade him).

Also looks like the Grant Hill signing will happen as he is basically signing on a two and done cheapie contract (under 2 mil) that is a bi-annual exemption from the salary cap.

I don't know.....lots of rumors floating around about the Celts not matching a full MLE offer for Davis. It looks like the Spurs may make the offer....at least that's TODAY's rumor. It could all look different tomorrow.

It'll be interesting to see if Boston matches any offers, Big Baby had a pretty big role in the playoffs, and really seemed to find some consistancy with his mid-range shot.


edit: Here's one of the reports I was talking about.

This will be interesting both for Boston and in seeing what Detroit will do. If they cannot replace him they might as well trade Prince for some future draft picks and start over.

I think THIS puts the Celtics over the top for 2010!!!

That's right, Mike Sweetney put down the doughnuts.....kind of.



That's a big boy there.

...and yes, that's the "slimmed down" version.

Seriously, I don't know if Sweetney makes the team, but I'm glad to see him back on the court. I liked him when he was on the Bulls, thought he could have been a solid player if he could get his act together and his weight under control...he was just one of those guys that was easy to root for and that I wanted to succeed. I hope he's able to get back to the NBA in some way.

The move for 'Sheed' adds a real nice piece coming off the bench..

So that just about completes it, now it's a 5 team league. Cleveland, Boston, and Orlando in the East.. Lakers and the Spurs in the West.

Now they run the mad dash for the championship.

Apparently LeBron and Shaq tried to poach Ariza from the Rockets.

Here's a funny/interesting take about how no one else can defeat Kobe, so the Lakers are taking Artest to do it from the inside.

Oh my GOD, sour grapes much?

NBA grants Rockets disabled player exception, Yao likely out for season.

Shawn Marion headed to Dallas, McDyess to San Antonio

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Now, the question:

Who gets traded first, Hamilton or Prince (since Detroit seems content to just blow the whole team up and start over...)

Prince.

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Shawn Marion reportedly wanted to be traded when he was with the Suns. Little did he know that his wish would be granted -- and again and again and...

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Geoff

Good luck with that. Srsly.

W3rd.

The Lakers basically just acquired Terrell Owens. Should be all kinds of interesting.



dB

Nah, Ron Ron is just crazy like a fox! Okay, just plain crazy. But I don't see him as locker room cancer. If anything, he seems very VERY much into supporting his team, wherever he's been, even if he's insane.

You know, there have been other crazy people in the NBA who helped win championships. We could use our own Rodman.

Ron Ron hasn't had the problem of taking a back seat to anybody...

It'll be interesting to see the Zen Master convince him that Kobe really is the person you want to give the ball to in a crucial situation....

...if by interesting you mean watching the Lakers continue to win championships for the next few years.