We’re at the where’s the nearest bus route stage

Sounds right. “Good news everyone! The billionaire owner got tax savings out of taking apart our contender! Let the bars flow with Guinness!”

This year, because none of these guys need new contracts. But there’s no way you’re getting Queta and Pritchard for $10m in 2028-9 onward.

Not even. We saved ~3m in this trade, but we were only ~800-900k over the tax line.

All you have to do in that scenario is not pick up the option on someone like Dalano Banton and then sign an undrafted rookie instead.

Its a money thing. Jaylen Brown is going to need an extension next offseason.

It very clearly is a money thing. It’s not just evading the tax it’s saving money to justify later spending. Also future cap space

Yeah and what’s the difference between Brown and George’s salary this upcoming season?

It’s the same with the Heat guys. They maximize their talent, but once they leave, they suck.

lol they won 56 games and were better with brown off the court, tf are u saying.

Nah, they’re actually good ftmp

If Washington was winning with them playing a bunch of minutes, they’d get plenty of spotlight. I think it’s more the winning with them playing thing

Even this doesn’t really explain it. PG makes basically the same money and has one year + a player option he’ll definitely pick up. We wanna save money so bad we’re doing this dogshit trade for $3 million and 1 year less?

I’m not even saying this to ragebait Celtics fans - JB took that team to 56 wins. That’s insane and we might look back at that season like how we look back at Brunson in the playoffs when Luka went down.

“He showed flashes that he could be the guy if you were paying attention and actually watching the games”

That’s why they traded Brown

He messed up their tank and draft positioning

2 supermax who ideally have different roles and strenght.

JT and JB are quite similar

Paul George played well against the Celtics haha

Are you into Jokic things?

Mitch can bounce with Joel. Front court tightens up. It’s not as bad as you think. Plus PG cooked is in that series if we are going to be all accurate and that.

They traded Brown because he messed up their tank

Better. Because Tatum is better.

Brown is asking for the extension in July

They could wait a couple weeks until all the good/decent FA’s are taken and maybe a team gets a bit more desperate to upgrade and gives the celtics a better offer. They could wait a month or two and see if the crazy late summer trade(s) that seem to happen most years these days makes anyone desperate. You can do it at the trade deadline for a team looking for a push over the top.

He could also tank his trade value even further by doing some dumb shit in the meantime. He could single-handedly sink the team like Kyrie did in 18-19 if they had let this saga drag into the season. Nobody wants or needs a repeat of that.

And OH LOOK it’s another bot that still thinks it’s 2024 and Paul George has the full four years left on his contract. 2 years left at that number is perfectly tradeable. He’ll be on the move again next summer when he flips to an expiring. Why do you think the Wizards gave fucking Trae Young a new $50M a deal for 3 years when he’s unironically worse than Paul George right now? Because in a few years time when Dybantsa, Sarr, and whoever else is ready to roll (or so goes the plan), they’ll have the big tradeable salary to make a big addition and go for it.

There’s a difference between fitting under the cap/apron rules and cost cutting. With two supermax contracts there’s not much else to work with to build the team further and we saw the last two playoffs and they wanted a change.

The trade package is not at all what any of us expected but that’s not a cost thing. Pretty clear nobody wanted him.