Marcus Smart Named To NBA All-Defense FIRST Team

bob



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This is a great honor. Well deserved.

1st team all defense is an elite designation.

bob



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As we congratulate Marcus for making 1st team all defensive, it also increases his trade value.

That is the downside of this IMO because I believe that Danny would need his salary to make the AD trade work. I am also under an assumption that Danny will not trade both Tatum and Brown. I think that would be a deal breaker. Also assuming that he moves # 14 and # 20 this draft and the Memphis pick next year or 2021. Those 2 1st rounders are worth a combined $5,000,000 for salary matching purposes for this year.

They need to get close to $25.4 million.

The Celtics remain in a favorable position to trade for AD because they have more 1st rounders to offer and I think it will take 3 to get the deal done.

I see Danny moving Marcus Smart and Jayson Tatum plus picks 14 and 20 which gives them 24.8 million and then maybe they move Dozier (RFA) or Wannamaker (QA) to complete the deal

Next year's team may look something like this

Horford
Hayward
Irving
Davis
Brown

Baynes
Semi
Williams
Yabusele
Theis (maybe)
First round pick
second round pick
MLE

Depending on what they can get in the draft and who to spend MLE money on, the challenge for Boston will be filling out the bench with some scoring and a BU PG would be #1 need, Stretch 4 #2 and wing #3.

worcester wrote:Hate to lose Smart.

The only way to avoid that would be to get Morris or Rozier to agree to a sign and trade. I doubt they would do that.

I hate to lose any of out top 8 guys.