The Spurs took a safe gamble.

Not a lot of risk but there's little upside. Rudy Gay is like Cutler of the NBA with less team success. He's not suddenly gonna be a good player at age 30.

He's coming off an achilles injury and the Spurs way could help.

Not a lot of risk but there's little upside. Rudy Gay is like Cutler of the NBA with less team success. He's not suddenly gonna be a good player at age 30.

The Boston Celtics are finalizing a trade to send perimeter defender Avery Bradley to the Detroit Pistons, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. In exchange, the Celtics will receive forward Marcus Morris, according to The Vertical’s Shams Charania.

is it because he's a free agent next year? I'm really baffled by Danny Ainge's moves so far.

Considering your recent posts you're probably baffled by the concept of socks before shoes.

you win one battle with ltg and you're an NBA expert all of the sudden.

Avery Bradley is a "glue" guy. They will really miss him.

What's not to understand. They had to shed either Bradley, Crowder or Smart. Crowder has one of the best contracts in the NBA for 3 more years. Bradley is a free agent after this coming season and will want buku bucks. Smart is a free agent coming off a rookie contract so of the two, it will be much easier to re-sign Smart. Bradley is 100% gone after the season no matter what. Therefore, trading Bradley is the obvious move. Nothing baffling about it.

Thomas is off the books next season too. I understood the cap limits to allow Bradley to stay around. If that's not true, it makes more sense but that will really cause them problems this season.

What's not to understand. They had to shed either Bradley, Crowder or Smart. Crowder has one of the best contracts in the NBA for 3 more years. Bradley is a free agent after this coming season and will want buku bucks. Smart is a free agent coming off a rookie contract so of the two, it will be much easier to re-sign Smart. Bradley is 100% gone after the season no matter what. Therefore, trading Bradley is the obvious move. Nothing baffling about it.

Bradley is easily the best and most important player of those three. For a Win Now team it's a bad move, imo. You aren't getting to the Finals with no backcourt defense.

Boston is going for it now. Cleveland is beatable. It's going to be tough for Cleveland to make any moves of significance given their cap situation.

They are going to have to move Isaiah Thomas at some point in the next couple of years in order to win anything.

Boston is going for it now. Cleveland is beatable. It's going to be tough for Cleveland to make any moves of significance given their cap situation.

They are going to have to move Isaiah Thomas at some point in the next couple of years in order to win anything.

They're not moving IT. They're going to give him a massive contract. If they had any intention of getting rid of IT they would stuck with #1 and drafted Fultz as well as keeping Bradley.

Maybe they plan on using Philly's pick next year on his replacement.

They're not moving IT. They're going to give him a massive contract.

That would be a disaster. I hope it happens

Ainge can't be that dumb. Or maybe he is, that's what I was confused about ultimately.

Ainge has been really meticulous about putting this together. He never could have known that Thomas would have blown up. Now that he has you got to move him before you can't.

What has Ainge done recently that would indicate he intends to let IT go?

There's plenty of evidence to the contrary such as trading away from Fultz and now trading Bradley. If Ainge was planning to get rid of IT he wouldn't have done either of those.

Paul George is going to get exposed in the West. He's going to be the next Kevin Love, big fish in a small pond that doesn't gear up properly in a secondary or third wheel role.

So he's goimg to make a clutch defensive play to seal up an NBA title ?