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blair for rondo straight up seems good to me
Jared Sullinger is reportedly out for the season (back surgery). Given how bad Boston has been rebounding, Blair appears to be a cheap option that would allow them to improve their worst part of the team.
Offensive Rebound Percentage -21.9% (29th in the NBA)
Total Rebounds-1398 (28th in the NBA)
Total Rebounds Per Game-39.6 (28th in the NBA)
Sullinger played every game as the backup PF, averaging 20 mpg in 45 games
He loss in devastating to the Celtics considering he lead the team in rebounds per 36 minutes with 10.7. By comparison Garnett averages 2 rpg, per 36, less than Sullinger. He also is the teams best offensive rebound with 3.7 offensive boards per 36 minutes, with Brandon Bass ,2nd, with 1.5 rpg fewer than Sullingers.
Dejun Blair provides similar numbers on the glass, even in the worst season of his career.
Per 36 Minutes
Rpg-9.8 (2nd, to Tim Duncan)
ORPG-3.2 (Leads the Team)
Career Numbers
Per 36 Minutes
RPG-11.2rpg
ORpg-4.3 Opg
Offensively their shooting percentages and in terms of per minute scoring Blair appears to be an upgrade 13.9 pp36 to Sullinger's 10.9 this season.
Blair also brings to the table career averages of 8 ppg, in 19 minutes mpg and 1 spg (where he has ranked 10th, 2nd and 7th amongst centers)
The Celtics could, from my understanding, trade a pick for Blair an be able to take on his salary without having to send out a player. Blair is making $1,054,000, while the Celtics are at $70,775,006. They can not exceed $74.3 million because they used the full mid level exception on Jason Terry.
The Spurs may be able to acquire a 1st rounder (conditional, considering the Celtics could miss the playoffs) this season, or a future 1st rounder. Unless their willing to move Garnet or Pierce, along with Lee or Melo to get a good return. Aquiring Blair could help them fill the void after losing 2 of their top 4 rebounders in a span of a week.
blair for rondo straight up seems good to me
Blair for Bradley
Blair for Bird.
blair for oscar robertson
yes the celtics would take on a scrub blair, when they dont need to
fkn clowns creating stupid trade threads
blair for 3 of the 1960s championship banners
They don't need Blair, really? they're on the verge of missing the playoffs and are one of the wost rebounding teams in the league. They're with out a player ,who accounts for nearly 50 points (points and points off assists) They currently don't have a backup PF. Garnett & Pierce can't carry a team but so far. Terry & Lee have been disappointments and Green has been inconsistent.
Moving a pick for Blair isn't a stupid idea. Making a comment in which you are actually saying nothing in particular about a viable trade is.
why would the celtics trade away a draft pick for blair if they are in rebuild mode?
wtf is with all these threads man... every time any other team does any move, someone's gotta come up in here and make a thread about it in the spurs forum as if it's a team shifting move.
NBA forum exists for a reason: http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208932
Note to OP: The Celtics are in full blown rebuild/tank mode. There's no point in even making the playoffs right now. I see them trading away KG & Pierce by the trade deadline and trading Rondo in the off-season.
Did I miss something? They still have Pierce and Garnett and several long term deals Bass & Lee along Green & Terry. They really can't anyway. There not gonna be able to move most of these deals without moving Melo, Bradley or Sullinger (obviously can't be traded now). It makes sense for them to at least play out this season.
They've won 3 straight and are only 5 games back of the 3rd seed with 4 teams ahead of them, no better than 6-4 in their last 10. Know ones exactly running away with things besides Miami & N.Y. As for the 1st round pick, I said it could be a pick this year or in the future. With Blair you know what you're getting, he has produced for the past 3 1/2 seasons in the NBA. They may take someone who may not be able to help them immediately anyway (like Melo). Blair gives them a legit PF to go along with Bass, without having to play Jeff Green or Pierce out off position.
This is a little different than someone tinkering with Trade Machine on their lunch break and posting a ridiculous trade that they thing the spurs or some other team would actually accept.
Alright I have to ask but did you read anything that i wrote? You do realize I talk about Dejuan Blair several times in this article. He is actually the subject of this article, how is this not Spurs related exactly?
Yes, and tbh thinking we can get a 1st rounder for blair is laughable. The celts don't want blair the trade makes no sense for them. They will be rebuilding soon, you don't bring a player with no ACLs in his worst season into a rebuilding future team
To quote Jimi Hendrix " You can see that, you must be looking the future of a thousand years" You are acting like there is some EASY button in which they can unload Pierce and get back a 1st rounder or a young talent.
Garnet can't be moved that easily with out having to trade someone like Bradley to justify some team trading for a 36 y.o with 2 years of guaranteed money and can't play more than 28 mpg in the regular season and 33 in the post season. Rondo being moved in the off season? He is on one of the best contracts in the league and is a top 5 guard. How exactly is that gonna help the C's rebuild? Know way all 3 are gone by next season. Maybe 1, Paul Pierce, but that's doubtful.
Expecting a first rounder might be too optimistic, but Blair + a Spurs 2nd rounder for TWO Celtics 2nd rounders (both unconditional), i think that just might work.
Blair is only 23 and has been healthy for most of his NBA career, its odd that you bring up the no ACL's considering it hasn't been a problem for the Spurs. He contrasts with the recent history of C's bigs, old and injury prone
Shaq
Jermaine O'neal (twice)
Chris Wilcox
Kendrick Perkins
Blair, even in his worst season, is still putting up comparable numbers to Sullinger and is a better rebounder. He has been buried in the spurs rotation after Duncan, Splitter, Diaw, & Jackson. Hickson was waived last season by the Kings, and has turned out be an excellent starter for the Blazers. One teams luxury is another teams necessity.
The Heat nearly traded Haslem & or a 1st rounder for Blair in the offseason. They turned out to be an even worse rebounding team than the Celtics. How exactly is it laughable to think that a player who has a history of being an excellent rebounder can't help a terrible rebounding team. I said it could be a conditional 1st round pick either this draft or anytime in the near future. That isn't a laughable at all. Why is everyone assuming they can just blow it up that easily, they don't have the spurs flexibility cap wise. They are better off making the playoffs.
Maybe more realistic but the Celtics are in between a rock and a hard place...
Yeah, i agree that if they don't want to blow it up right now, they might as well try to give the best punch they can and ride both Garnett & Pierce until the wheels fall off.
They don't want Blair. Sullinger was this draft's version OF Blair. Why would they want more damaged goods? Draft red flags are just that.
Don't see Rondo sticking around for the rebuilding period. He's already been through once and i don't see him through another. Rondo to OKC would be perfect, Boston will get Westbrook and OKC will benefit big time.
Now or never tbh . . .
We ain't gonna get much for Blair. I am more curious about what overseas players teams have the rights to.
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All right, please don't quote Jimmy Hendrix you dip .
Not a horrible thread, all depends if the Celtics want to blow it up. If they want to try and make the playoffs, maybe they do this trade.
Doubt we would get much more than a 2nd rounder though, but a mid second rounder is better than nothing. We'd need to take a minimum player back though, so not sure it's worth the hassle. At least come playoff time we know who Blair is, what his role in this team is and what he can give us.
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