2024 - 2025 Trades and Signings

willjr wrote:Derrick White and the Boston Celtics have agreed to a four-year, $125.9 million contract extension following their NBA championship last month, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
ESPN's Bobby Marks provided a year-by-year breakdown of the deal:
The $125.9M (including likely bonuses) was the maximum allowed.

2025/26- $28.1M

2026/27- $30.4M

2027/28- $32.6M

2028/29- $34.8M
12:52 PM · Jul 1, 2024

Pretty much right in line with what I expected. This is how you keep a championship team together. The Tatum deal is right around the corner and I do hope they bring back Tillman just so that he can bang up against those big centers.

cowens/oldschool wrote:

bobheckler wrote:As posted elsewhere by Will,


THE GREEN KORNET WILL BE BACK NEXT YEAR!!


One year deal for Luke.


Bob


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I would have preferred resigning Tillman, much more versatile and better defender than Luke.

Cow

I think they want to resign Tillman. Last year KP missed 25 games spread throughout the season. This season he is likely to miss the first half of the season. Center depth will be critical. The Celtics need not kill Al. Yes Tillman is more versatile on defense than Luke and he is stronger than Luke. But we need both of them.

dboss wrote:

cowens/oldschool wrote:

bobheckler wrote:As posted elsewhere by Will,


THE GREEN KORNET WILL BE BACK NEXT YEAR!!


One year deal for Luke.


Bob


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I would have preferred resigning Tillman, much more versatile and better defender than Luke.

Cow

I think they want to resign Tillman.   Last year KP missed 25 games spread throughout the season.  This season he is likely to miss the first half of the season.  Center depth will be critical.  The Celtics need not kill Al.    Yes Tillman is more versatile on defense than Luke and he is stronger than Luke.   But we need both of them.  

I agree, we need both of them. Mazzulla knows how and when to use them.

Free agent Klay Thompson plans to join the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, ending his historic run with the Golden State Warriors after 13 seasons.

At Least GSW will get something in return.  It's a sign and trade with Hornets being a 3rd team in the mix.

Dumb ass Clippers get a bag containing (15 miles of chopped up Donkey Di&k)

Sources - Pistons, Tobias Harris agree to 2-year, $52M deal

JAYSON TATUM RESIGNS 5 YEARS $315M.


Wyc locking everybody up long-term for the next owners.


Bob


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So what’s left??????

RosalieTCeltics wrote:So what’s left??????

Tillman?

NBC/SPORTS had the contract at 5 years

2024 NBA free agency: Jayson Tatum, Celtics agree to richest contract in league history, per reports

https://sports.yahoo.com/2024-nba-free-agency-jayson-tatum-celtics-agree-to-richest-contract-in-league-history-per-reports-214149716.html

Ben Rohrbach
Senior writer
Mon, Jul 1, 2024, 5:41 PM EDT·3 min read




Fresh off an NBA championship, Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum will receive the NBA's richest contract.

The 26-year-old and the NBA's winningest franchise agreed to a supermax extension worth an estimated $315 million over five years, ending in the 2029-30 season, according to Bleacher Report's Chris Haynes and The Athletic's Shams Charania.

The deal supersedes the five-year, $304 million contract that Celtics teammate Jaylen Brown signed last season as the largest commitment in NBA history. The co-stars are owed more than $600 million. It pays to deliver wins, and Tatum and Brown have led Boston to the NBA Finals in two of the past three years.

This contract has been expected since Tatum made a second consecutive All-NBA first team last season, which made him for 35% of the salary cap, beginning in the 2025-26 campaign. He made a third straight All-NBA first team for good measure this past season, leading Boston to a 64-18 record — seven games better than any other team in the league. The Celtics posted the third-highest net rating in NBA history.

Boston has reached six of the past eight Eastern Conference finals, including five in Tatum's seven years. He has never missed more than eight games in a season, averaging a 23-7-4 on 46/38/84 shooting splits for his career. He posted 26.9 points (47/38/83), 8.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game this past season.

The Celtics now have Tatum and Brown — the backbone of their recent success — signed through the end of the decade, when both will still be in their early 30s. It is a remarkable degree of stability for the defending champions, who can bring their entire playoff rotation back under contract next season. Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porziņģis also signed extensions with Boston this past season, and Derrick White agreed to a four-year, $125.9 million extension on Monday. The Celtics' vaunted starting lineup could be under contract for at least the next two seasons, making them an expensive team and a perennial title favorite.

Tatum's contract is more so a representation of timing than his status in the league. Were any of his All-NBA brethren also coming off a rookie-scale extension, he too would receive the NBA's richest contract.

And what a time it is. Tatum's Celtics stormed through the NBA playoffs, sweeping the conference finals and winning each of their three other series in five games. Their 16-3 record in the postseason is second only to the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors since the NBA moved to the current 16-win format in 2003.

Tatum was the driving force behind that domination, even if Brown won both the Eastern Conference finals MVP and NBA Finals MVP awards. Tatum led the team in points, rebounds and assists for the entire playoffs, logging 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds in a title-clinching win over the Dallas Mavericks.

RosalieTCeltics wrote:NBC/SPORTS had the contract at 5 years

Rosalie,

Thanks for catching that.  Serves me right doing it on my phone while I'm walking without prescription sunglasses.


Bob


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I CANNOT FIND THIS BEING REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE.

I WOULD HOLD OFF ON BELIEVING THIS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

REPORT:  XAVIER TILLMAN SIGNS 2 YEAR $10M DEAL WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS.



Bob
MY NOTE:  If this is true then we need a wing to replace Svi or Oshae and we're done.  The key pieces, however, are in place..


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bobheckler wrote:I CANNOT FIND THIS BEING REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE.

I WOULD HOLD OFF ON BELIEVING THIS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

REPORT:  XAVIER TILLMAN SIGNS 2 YEAR $10M DEAL WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS.



Bob
MY NOTE:  If this is true then we need a wing to replace Svi or Oshae and we're done.  The key pieces, however, are in place..


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Bobh

$5 mill per?  I don't think so.  That has to be fake click bait fodder.

Brad not wasting any time wrapping up theJT deal.

Promises made and promises kept.

I do not see the Celtics signing another wing.  Rookie Baylor can play now and Walsh should see some minutes too.  Svi and Brissett have been replaced.

Mo Bamba signs 1 year deal with Clippers. No $ reported yet.

There's another cheap non-Tillman option off the table. Drew Eubanks signed earlier today.

Wiseman, Theis still available.


Bob


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dboss wrote:

bobheckler wrote:I CANNOT FIND THIS BEING REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE.

I WOULD HOLD OFF ON BELIEVING THIS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

REPORT:  XAVIER TILLMAN SIGNS 2 YEAR $10M DEAL WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS.



Bob
MY NOTE:  If this is true then we need a wing to replace Svi or Oshae and we're done.  The key pieces, however, are in place..


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Bobh

$5 mill per?  I don't think so.  That has to be fake click bait fodder.

Brad not wasting any time wrapping up theJT deal.

Promises made and promises kept.

I do not see the Celtics signing another wing.  Rookie Baylor can play now and Walsh should see some minutes too.  Svi and Brissett have been replaced.

DBOSS,

You think a slow-of-foot rookie can play NBA defense right out of the chute?  I hope you're right.

Bob


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Klay to Mavs.  Good move.  If I rolled into the Finals with all that momentum and then discovered in the first few minutes of G1 how woefully short my team was, I'd make this move.  

Couple of huge, train-derailing problems, though.


1.  The Rest of the West.  Lots of barriers to entry to the 2025 Finals for the Mavs.  Mavs won't waltz to the Finals in 2025 the same way they did in 2024.  All those teams with all those injuries perfectly timed won't happen again.  The league needs to focus on getting the two best teams from both conferences to the Finals.  The bs from the last two years of a 1 vs. 8 and a 1 vs. 5 Finals are killing the league.  The Finals are supposed to be a showcase of the best of the best.  We were part of the problem last year letting MIA in.  This season, we were blessed but still had to participate in the problem noentheless.  Woulda, coulda, shoulda.  

2.  Internally for the Mavs.  This hurdle all depends on what we see from Luka and the work he did over the summer.  Game 1 of the regular season.  Is he still a fatshit?  Did he convert 100lbs of fat into some muscle and lose about 50?  Did he learn how to play hardcore defense?  If not, DAL will not even make it to the WCF.  Maybe not even the real playoffs.  They may make the play-in, but not the playoffs.  

3.  How well do/will these 3 very different personalities mix?  All Kyrie needs is a whale to show up on the beach or an election crisis and he's mentally checked out.  Luka, well, we saw what happens to Luka when things get tight.  Folds up like a cheap suit, cries, quits, throws shitty passes, fouls out.  Then you throw Klay in there.  Then you have all those 3-bench guys who didn't show up in the Finals.  They will be better for the wear, but they are going to feel miffed with Klay coming in there to do the job they couldn't/didn't come close to.  If Klay comes in ala MIA Ray Allen and just takes care of his business, Mavs could make it back to the WCF but no further.   

4.  DEN, OKC & MIN all have something to prove after falling apart in the playoffs when the heat got turned up.  Teams looking for a playoff ticket?  LOL, LAC and GSW come to mind.  Then you have the up and comers.  NOP and MEM with Ja back.  Throw in the Kings, Spurs and the Rockets and you have a huge mess and mind field for DAL to go through.  Not sure after their Finals performance if management and coaching staff are nimble or smart enough to make it through all that.  They went for scoring again.  Does Klay the same two-way player he was in the prime Splash Brother years or is he now like a Luka or Kyrie for defense?     

Yeah, looking back on this, I'm not convinced this is going to go anywhere for DAL.  Just IMHBAO.  We'll see.  When's opening day?!  I'm sure we will be in DAL or in DEN or in PHI or in NY to open the season.  Bring it on.  

db

Donovan Mitchell signs 3 year $150M Max Extension with Cleveland.

So, all that talk last year about Mitchell going to the Knicks? SSDD. NY media promising Knick fans they're going to land "the big fish" this year, the finishing piece.

Cleveland must be thinking they're A LOT better than they were vs the Celtics this year once Jarrett Allen comes back. He's a player but he's not good enough to make that kind of a difference.


Bob



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dboss wrote:Free agent Klay Thompson plans to join the Dallas Mavericks on a three-year, $50 million deal, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, ending his historic run with the Golden State Warriors after 13 seasons.

DBoss,


Here's one of the social media responses to Klay Thompson signing with Dallas and not with the Lakers.



Jase
@jasehoops
LeBron offered a pay cut and no one cared im crying



Bob



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bobheckler wrote:JAYSON TATUM RESIGNS 5 YEARS $315M.


Wyc locking everybody up long-term for the next owners.


Bob


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Roy Hibbert’s career earnings: $70,680,193 Danny Granger’s career earnings: $71,140,777 Jayson Tatum’s 2030 player option: $71,446,822



Bob


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bobheckler wrote:

dboss wrote:

bobheckler wrote:I CANNOT FIND THIS BEING REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE.

I WOULD HOLD OFF ON BELIEVING THIS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

REPORT:  XAVIER TILLMAN SIGNS 2 YEAR $10M DEAL WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS.



Bob
MY NOTE:  If this is true then we need a wing to replace Svi or Oshae and we're done.  The key pieces, however, are in place..


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Bobh

$5 mill per?  I don't think so.  That has to be fake click bait fodder.

Brad not wasting any time wrapping up theJT deal.

Promises made and promises kept.

I do not see the Celtics signing another wing.  Rookie Baylor can play now and Walsh should see some minutes too.  Svi and Brissett have been replaced.

DBOSS,

You think a slow-of-foot rookie can play NBA defense right out of the chute?  I hope you're right.

Bob


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I think he can come in and score for the Celtics and along the way learn how to become a better defender. The Celtics are returning the band so Baylor's playing time will be very limited. If there an UFA wing out there that you like? One that is a vet minimum player? The Celtics are in tax payer hell so they do not have a lot of option to add more salary.

Donovan Mitchell signs 3 year extension for $150 million.

CLE, ORL, IND to the second tier behind Boston, PHI, NYK, and teetering on the edge of that line MIL.  And I don't want to count them out just yet, but I think the Heat are done.  Everyone has their Pat Riley/Eric Spoelstra blueprint on how to beat them and their junk.  They're now like an Ivy League/Princeton Offense team now and going forward...can't compete with the big boys but will try to make things difficult if you piss them off and don't practice zones.  Time for the Godfather to hang it up, Mr. Riley.  You've had a great career in the NBA.  Go out on top like the Wyk.  

I don't see any surprises from below the Mendoza Line to add to that mix of teams except ATL and CHI round out the Top 10 playoff teams from the East.  But if history has anything to say, one or two of those 10 teams may find themselves on the short end of the stick and a couple from the disenfranchised list will move up for an 4-0 AW in the first round.

db

Reports are that James Wiseman has signed a 2 year deal with Indy.  No $ known at this time.


The list is getting shorter by the hour.


Bob


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Mo Wagner resigning with Orlando for 2 years $22M.

Another one gone.


Bob


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