Come on Timmy.
Take him a cake, grill him a steak, whatever it takes. Bring him in.
The Celts went after Cory hard last year which resulted in them losing Posey. Now they want to risk it all going after sheed at the expense of Powe and possibly Glen Davis?Celts are playing with fire again.
Come on Timmy.
Take him a cake, grill him a steak, whatever it takes. Bring him in.
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Sources say Boston Celtics GM Danny Ainge and assistant director of basketball operations Leo Papile showed up on Rasheed Wallace’s(notes) doorstep just after midnight Wednesday to make their recruiting push.
“I know he is definitely considering playing for them,” one league source said.
The Celtics also have expressed interest in Toronto Raptors guard Anthony Parker(notes) .
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns
^ the celts FTC
Wasn't there a report that said he didn't want to talk about it until today? I hope he told them to GTF off his lawn.
I actually feel better by hearing that the Celtics are trying so hard, and are going to his "doorstep" and all..we haven't heard anything about the Spurs, as usual, and silence in the media is a good thing a lot of the time..
Boston. SA is the best fit for Sheed.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/b...osition=recent
Celtics tender offer to Glen Davis
By Mark Murphy
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - Updated 7h ago
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The Celtics took the first step in their attempt to retain the services of Glen Davis by tendering the forward a qualifying offer last night.
But the chase is far from over. Based on his playoff performance - beyond Kendrick Perkins [stats] he was arguably the Celtics’ best player during the conference semifinals against Orlando - Big Baby is anticipating a big paycheck.
According to a league source, Davis, as a restricted free agent, will carry a mid-level exception (approximately $5.8 million) price tag into the marketplace. He also qualifies as a so-called “Early Bird” exception free agent (two years with the same team), meaning the Celtics can sign him for up to 175 percent of last season’s salary.
That amount would approximate the mid-level exception. Because of Davis’ Early Bird status, the Celtics could pay that amount without using their mid-level exception.
The question is whether the Celtics are willing to pay that much.
Detroit and Memphis - two teams with cap space - both are expected to court Davis over the next month. The Pistons, depending on who they bring back, are a playoff team. Memphis, attracted to Davis’ promise as a young power forward, isn’t even close.
And that, in turn, is the question facing Davis.
After winning an NBA le as a rookie and establishing himself with one of the NBA’s premier franchises, is Davis willing to take more money from an inferior team and organization?
How does this play into them trying to obtain Sheed as well? You would think if they are looking at Sheed, they wouldnt have made the offer to Davis right?
Blair will be much better and much cheaper. What a draft!
they don't have to use any of the MLE to sign Big Baby
Sheed, Garnett, Perkins and Rondo, what would be the over/under on Celtics technicals this year?
On the Celtics:
Powe is out until at least the allstar break. He's a nonfactor right now. The reason they did not extend him a qualifier is because they can probably sign him anyway later and save the luxury tax. It is unlikely anyone else will sign him due to his knee injury. (edit: strike that, it looks like Leon got inquiries from about 5 teams and his Celtic days may be done.)
Big Baby and Rasheed are not in compe ion. There is room for both with Rasheed being the primary back up big man at both the 4 and 5.
If Rasheed comes to Boston he will get starter minutes. KG is coming off knee surgery and Perkins has a shoulder problem that would be helped by fewer minutes. All three could get around 30 minutes with Big Baby or someone else picking up what's left.
Davis would pick up further minutes filling in as Rasheed and Garnett are older and Perkins needs to rest his shoulder.
Rasheed and Garnett are very close. Garnett may be instrumental in bringing him to Boston.
Boston really needs him. They do not have enough size or depth in the frontcourt.
The two best defenders of Dwight Howard in the game right now are Rasheed and Perkins. If Boston picks up Rasheed, Orlando will have a very hard time beating them.
He could still go to San Antonio but Rasheed to Boston has been rumored for days now. It could very well happen.
Last edited by Gant; 07-01-2009 at 02:11 PM.
I dont know if u can do math or not but vet minimum for Sheed is impossible. Even a grandma knows that. More likely he will command most of MLE if not all of it. I dont know why Spurs fans always want to spend cheaply on players, we are not GM anyway....Lakers and Boston throwing money all over the place and here we go again. If the reason is because of SA is a small market and money is tight than I understand. But Spurs committed to spend all their money in response to Lakers championship and early knockout. Thats a good sign. If Spurs got Sheed they will be unbeatable team on paper..considering Duncan and Manu are healthy.
No. They've got Early-Bird rights on him.
I wasn't asking, I know they don't have to use the MLE to sign Big Baby, someone was asking why would the Celtics make an offer to BB if they were going after Rasheed. Having BB early bird rights mean they could sign both
Rasheed Wallace: First contact
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Jeff McDonald
on Jul 1, 09 12:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
As expected, the Spurs have reached out to unrestricted free agent Rasheed Wallace. At this point, less than 24 hours into free agency, it is difficult to handicap the race for his services.
Boston, Cleveland and perhaps even Dallas are believed to be among the teams queuing up to talk to the soon-to-be 35-year-old center. Each of those teams have the same amount to spend -- the roughly $5.6 million mid-level exception -- so it will probably come down to how the offers are structured over the long term.
Wallace made $13.9 million with Detroit last season, but won't be able to approach that figure on the open market this summer.
Bill Strickland, Wallace's agent, would not confirm this morning that talks had commenced between the Spurs and his client. He did, however, indicate he expected the Spurs to be in the hunt.
"There's interest, mutual interest, I would say," Strickland said. "I would say the Spurs have a job to do."
The Spurs' interest in Wallace has been ongoing. As with Richard Jefferson, they poked around Wallace at last season's trade deadline.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...d-wallace.html
Come on Spurs. Rasheed is a Laker killer.
when do you think he will make his decision??
i really want rasheed but i dont see the spurs willing to wait if sheed drags this out.
theres just too few serviceable bigs out there and we cant afford to wait around.
i do think that sheed makes a decision by tomorrow, so we'll see.
Probably after everyone who is trying to get him makes their offers. Once he has all the offers in that he is considering, he will review the money/years/situation then decide. So probably not until close to the 8th imo.
To be honest, what makes sense is to wait and see how things develop (from a player standpoint). I think it might be a while until we get some news.
He's going to play it out as long as he can if you ask me. He wants the most years he can since he's taking 40% of the money he was making last few seasons. Whoever ponies up to pay a 39 year old wallace a few years from now will get his services now.when do you think he will make his decision??
I just hope Pop is taking him out for dinner somewhere and giving him the red carpet treatment. Kinda doubt it, but I certainly hope so.
Aren't they close-ish? I think the red carpet treatment was going to happen just because Pop likes the guy.
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