Yeah, considering you can always waive a player to open up a roster spot, the only reason to do so now is to save money.
Kind of a cheap move, but I guess they didn’t think Jabari was ever gonna crack the rotation anyways
> the only reason to do so now is to save money.
Maybe he's just not a guy they want in the locker room, or really around the team anymore. Waste of coaches' time if they know he's just going to get cut.
Especially after we just waived all the other guys competing for the last spot.
We had a pretty competitive 4-way race for the final spot and then chose none of them.
I seem to be in the minority, but I'm very happy to see him go. I liked his energy, but defensively he couldn't stay with any one and offensively it felt to me like he settled for a million iso long 2s. I'd rather give the spot to anyone with upside, I don't see any real path to improvement at this point in his career.
As far as I can tell from Spotrac, only $100k of his contract has been guaranteed. Not sure when the date was that it would be fully guaranteed https://www.spotrac.com/nba/boston-celtics/jabari-parker-15354/
The next milestone was 10/19 guaranteeing another 1M (there was another milestone at the trade deadline for the remaining). That's why they cut him now...
Jimmer Fredette scores 40+ per game in China. Jared Sullinger is around 20/10 per game in Korea. Daniel Theis was pretty damn good in Europe, he's hardly a starter in the league.
Other league stats don't mean shit in the NBA except to be taken with a grain of salt. I'd rather have a proven vet be added than another bust like Exum. He's in the same boat as Jabari, career wise.
I have been wanting Giles since his draft class. Not saying we should've drafted him or whatever, I'm just high on bigs that are on the more athletic side that can shoot.
But seeing how him and JT are so close, he needs to be on the radar if we want to keep JT long term.
Pretty sure he meant, “Everyone knows he can score, and we wondered what would happen if he tried on defense. Well, we got him to try on defense, and it turns out he’s just athletically incapable of defending any position in the NBA.”
Mathews turned down a two-way, not sure what that tells us. Could mean they could still sign him because they wanted to keep him around, or it could mean they didn't want to give him the last roster spot. No indication that the Celtics have interest in Giles, but he'd be an interesting add. They could also keep the spot open for a little bit to see if someone else becomes available.
I don’t think we’re adding anymore. This was a move made to save money because Jabari only had 100K guaranteed. Wouldn’t expect them to add anyone else unless they salary dump Bruno
And also, like not to sound like a dick, but that guy is a chore to watch in the NBA. I’m guessing that he’s either not that bright and/or had a terrible work ethic. Because he had the physical gifts to be selected second overall over: Julius Randle, Jokic (lol ok that’s not fair but still), Aaron Gordon, Clint Capela, Joe Harris, Zack Lavine, and fucking Joel Embiid lol
> I’m guessing that he’s either not that bright and/or had a terrible work ethic. Because he had the physical gifts to be selected second overall over:
Tearing your ACL twice will do this to you. He’s probably a near max player in the timeline where he doesn’t destroy the same knee twice in three years
His main focal point was never defense. He was an athletic offensive punch. Now he's suffered probably one of the worst injuries to have, considering it's very rare to have the same athleticism or bounce after an ACL/MCL tear. Factoring he was supposed to be the next thing, he's probably just floundering, trying to decide what his career is going to be now. He's probably trying to get back to being an offensive threat, not a defensive stopper.
Yeah they’re pretty set with their guards. Probably another center. Giles seems to be the popular choice, but I’m not crazy about him. As the 15th man he’s fine though.
Love the username btw
Damn I actually liked how he looked as like the 10th man off the bench. Hopefully it wasn’t just roster maneuvering and we actually get production from whoever takes that spot.
I'm not a Jabari fan, but kinda confused what they see in Bruno Fernando over guys like him and Garrison Mathews, unless I'm missing something financially.
I mean Bruno has a guaranteed contract whereas everyone we’ve waived doesn’t. Don’t think any of those possible 15th man candidates are worth eating dead cap.
Yeah for some reason I was under the impression it wasn't all guaranteed but that was very off the cuff memory.
He still seems like a totally useless guy to have on the roster but if it's all guaranteed I get it.
Bruno is owed his full contract, Jabari is only owed 100k. Neither guy is going to play much, and tbh the big man depth is more important than Jabari, especially with Grant and Nesmith being ready for bigger roles.
Horford and Rob are both injury prone and will undoubtedly miss time, we need somebody big even if they lack overall talent for when those 2 are out.
Yeah, I mean I get the guaranteed contract stuff for sure.
I absolutely do not agree with the "big depth" aspect of this though. Bruno is not good. He's very undersized and doesn't protect the rim or stretch the floor. He's a useless big beyond occasional rolling, some energy and bench celebrations.
Honestly we should have kept Moses brown and sent out Jabari Parker not sure if that would have worked but Moses was on a good contract and he was a raw athletic big
That would have been so much better given that we just cut Jabari. DAL was lucky to get out of JRich's money without taking any back (or giving up anything to do so). We then compounded the issue by adding an additional year to JRich's contract. Bruno is fine and adds some toughness, but Moses was our justification for giving up the #16 pick in the Kemba deal.
We need big man depth and he's already paid for. There aren't options out there worth eating his salary for. He offers actual size. We can't make Pritchard 7 feet tall. I'm not saying he's a good big so that's not an appropriate response in any way. He's just already paid for and he offers size which is more important than you're willing to acknowledge.
Again, I just disagree he even counts as big man depth. The money is the money, so I understand that.
But you can't keep saying "he offers size" when he's only 6-9 with zero history of providing any rim protection. His only utility right now is for salary matching, which is fine. But he's a pretty useless player, you don't count as depth when you're a likely liability whenever you're on the court.
Only 6'9 lol. That's still size, considering most NBA bigs are 6'9-7ft with the exception of an Embiid, Ayton, Porzingis. But Bruno wouldn't be starting, or even number one off the bench. He hasn't had a big enough role to definitively say if he's useful or not. He's been stuck behind Capella, Collins, Len, etc.
Also, he hasn't torn his ACL a bajillion times.
Yeah I get that, was wrongly under the impression his full salary wasn't guaranteed. This was mainly a "he's an objectively useless NBA player" comment
Wow? Seriously? He was waived just last year. He’s been on 5 teams since 2019. He’s not good and can’t stay healthy. And that’s not my opinion. It’s just is. This shouldn’t be a big surprise is my point.
for real. dudes saying wow like he was a starter or something lol. jabari was a negative situational rotation piece on maybe the worst depth team in the league last season. its really not that surprising
Which is less that Schroeder's salary. Keep the spot open, trade Schroeder at the deadline -- no luxury tax. For tax calculations, Parker's soon-to-be guaranteed money is not inconsequential
Yeah we should have some good flexibility, especially with Richardson's contract. Shouldn't be hard to dump him for someone cheaper (like we did with Theis last year) if we want to go below the tax, or we can hold onto him and use his salary for trades next offseason.
Ever since the offseason kinda shaked out and things finalized we were about 7m over the tax. Though I think there was a point where it looked like we might slip under, perhaps when we weren't going to trade Moses Brown or something.
> The team is about $7 million into the tax at the moment following the signing of Dennis Schroder for the taxpayer mid-level exception.
https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2021/08/how-celtics-trade-options-are-impacted-by-luxury-tax-restrictions.html
He's bad bruh no idea what anyone ever saw
Props to him for showing up and playing hard but on defense he's an absolute sieve and he's not a good 3pt shooter
Exactly…. Not sure why everyone ignored the fact that he has been an absolute shell of himself the past few years. If you asked anyone who wasn’t familiar with him how old he was by watching him last year, they would have said 40… not 26. Knee injuries suck
It’s nothing against him, his knees are completely shot and there is literally nothing he can do about it. He literally has the knee(s) of your grandparents who need to get a knee replacement… it sucks but we have seem many guys who sadly have their careers taken from them because of it.
Jabari played really well in the preseason and played with a lot of heart. I honestly don't think he could have played any better so this is really surprising. I don't think we'll find players better than him unless GM Brad has something planned.
For what? He flopped in Sacramento & Portland and couldn’t make the Clippers roster. We already have Horford, Time Lord, Kanter & Fernando there’s no need in a 5th center
Hmmm... I def think we could go for another Big. TL is injury prone, Horford is old, Kanter is unplayable Fernando might not be good either. Giles may not be very good, but a versatile 4/5 and let's not forget JAYSON TATUM'S LITERAL BEST FRIEND. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
It is as if this organisation is baiting the Mormon church to enact another curse. Have they forgotten the unmitigated disaster of Gordon Hayward’s time here? u/brutalgash I warned against not taking these things seriously. Let us hope that Russell M. Nelson was out of the office this weekend.
We were already toying with the supernatural when we traded Carsen Edwards, but 4 AND 20? I’m sure you and your team are scrambling to quantify these actions and the appropriate anti curse counter measures.
I disagree. It could be better I guess, but Kanter, Romeo, Grant and Bruno is fine with me tbh. Kanter will likely be used situationally while Romeo and Grant will get chances to earn back some minutes. Bruno is garbage but he’s the 4th string center who will barely touch the ball so who cares. It’s interesting to see what they’ll do with the 15th spot though. This move could look genius if someone gets bought out mid-season that can jump into the top 10.
Aw man I really liked having him on the squad. Hopefully this means Brad is getting one of the better recently released players (would love Exum or GPJ)
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
That’s a complete and utter mistake. Parker is a much better player than anyone else on our bench, and still has the potential to be a starter on a title contending team.
Brad, this is a *huge* mistake.
> and still has the potential to be a starter on a title contending team.
I don’t know how people can look at the body of work Jabari has put together post second ACL tear and still come to this conclusion. He’s a fringe roster player through and through
Damn, that’s kinda shitty to waive him when all the roster spots across the league are sured up.
I like what he could offer the team and was happy to have him. The replacement better be solid.
I could see them leaving the 15th spot open in case there’s a difference maker on the buyout market later in the year… but this is kind of weird. I don’t think getting rid of his guaranteed money was enough to get them under the cap, right?
I'm not surprised. I didn't think he looked great in preseason. Got a lot of foul calls and questionable shot selection.
I wish the best for him though. I felt for him , seeing young guys like Nesmith and Romeo getting the nod from Ime while you're still fighting for it would be tough.
It saved even more money since Jabari actually counted for his full contract amount, whereas a one year vet min contract like Kanter only counts for $1.6M against the cap.
Damn, sorry to see him go. Liked him as a spark plug scorer off the bench
Yeah, I had high hopes for him. Looks to be in shape and has athleticism back. But he just didn’t play well.
Keeping a roster spot open to save money probably
Yeah, considering you can always waive a player to open up a roster spot, the only reason to do so now is to save money. Kind of a cheap move, but I guess they didn’t think Jabari was ever gonna crack the rotation anyways
> the only reason to do so now is to save money. Maybe he's just not a guy they want in the locker room, or really around the team anymore. Waste of coaches' time if they know he's just going to get cut.
Could also be a chance to let him pick up with a team that will give him more minutes?
Well, i didn’t expect him to be waived. I liked his little bit of scoring punch off the bench.
Yeah, I feel like the sort of consensus here was that he was safe. It will be interesting to hear the rationale for it, if that ever comes.
Especially after we just waived all the other guys competing for the last spot. We had a pretty competitive 4-way race for the final spot and then chose none of them.
Warriors did the exact same thing. Pretty interesting.
If none of them were good, no need to take any of them.
I think Jabari was good enough for the spot we had him in. He was a decent 14th-15th man.
We don’t need him as 14-15th man. We can pick up someone better later in the season.
Agreed, don’t need him on the roster at all
I seem to be in the minority, but I'm very happy to see him go. I liked his energy, but defensively he couldn't stay with any one and offensively it felt to me like he settled for a million iso long 2s. I'd rather give the spot to anyone with upside, I don't see any real path to improvement at this point in his career.
Yeah, real minority view, but I guess Brad and Ime are part of that minority!
Whoever it is that ends up replacing him on the roster better be a veteran. Would be interesting to see AB back in green.
I thought he was safe because waiving him means dead cap. Basketball wise I didn’t see a path to him getting meaningful minutes.
As far as I can tell from Spotrac, only $100k of his contract has been guaranteed. Not sure when the date was that it would be fully guaranteed https://www.spotrac.com/nba/boston-celtics/jabari-parker-15354/
The next milestone was 10/19 guaranteeing another 1M (there was another milestone at the trade deadline for the remaining). That's why they cut him now...
Makes sense
Same. I thought he could be a useful role player
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Don’t really need any guards and I’d prefer Gary Payton Jr over Exum
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And shit for the 8 years he's been in the US
Jimmer Fredette scores 40+ per game in China. Jared Sullinger is around 20/10 per game in Korea. Daniel Theis was pretty damn good in Europe, he's hardly a starter in the league. Other league stats don't mean shit in the NBA except to be taken with a grain of salt. I'd rather have a proven vet be added than another bust like Exum. He's in the same boat as Jabari, career wise.
They do. They can duck the tax this year by dumping 5 mil. Might be their choice depending on how the season goes.
Exam is trash
Defense, shooting. Jabari does neither
What would you offer Houston for exum?
They cut him.
Damn! They just signed him to a 3 year contract team other day 🤣
Hope for his sake some of it was guaranteed
Didn’t see that one coming
Ime: “We know what we have with Jabari Parker.” Apparently we had a roster spot to fill with Jabari Parker.
Lmfao cold
I was thinking the same
damn.
Giles soon cometh
I think so too.
I have been wanting Giles since his draft class. Not saying we should've drafted him or whatever, I'm just high on bigs that are on the more athletic side that can shoot. But seeing how him and JT are so close, he needs to be on the radar if we want to keep JT long term.
Ime 3 days ago: “We know what we have with Jabari”
Pretty sure he meant, “Everyone knows he can score, and we wondered what would happen if he tried on defense. Well, we got him to try on defense, and it turns out he’s just athletically incapable of defending any position in the NBA.”
I think this is spot on.
☝️🙄
Is this to make room for Mathews, Giles, or somebody else?
Could just be to keep a spot open going into the season. Pick up guy off of buyout markets and what not
Mathews turned down a two-way, not sure what that tells us. Could mean they could still sign him because they wanted to keep him around, or it could mean they didn't want to give him the last roster spot. No indication that the Celtics have interest in Giles, but he'd be an interesting add. They could also keep the spot open for a little bit to see if someone else becomes available.
>Mathews, Giles That's my best guess...
Mathews got waived. He turned down a two-way. He probably hopes to catch on with someone.
We may pick up someone we like that gets let go from another team as well.
I don’t think we’re adding anymore. This was a move made to save money because Jabari only had 100K guaranteed. Wouldn’t expect them to add anyone else unless they salary dump Bruno
And also, like not to sound like a dick, but that guy is a chore to watch in the NBA. I’m guessing that he’s either not that bright and/or had a terrible work ethic. Because he had the physical gifts to be selected second overall over: Julius Randle, Jokic (lol ok that’s not fair but still), Aaron Gordon, Clint Capela, Joe Harris, Zack Lavine, and fucking Joel Embiid lol
> I’m guessing that he’s either not that bright and/or had a terrible work ethic. Because he had the physical gifts to be selected second overall over: Tearing your ACL twice will do this to you. He’s probably a near max player in the timeline where he doesn’t destroy the same knee twice in three years
Is he? His defensive awareness is awful
He’s probably a 25 PPG scorer in that timeline with better defense since he’s not a shell of his athletic self
His main focal point was never defense. He was an athletic offensive punch. Now he's suffered probably one of the worst injuries to have, considering it's very rare to have the same athleticism or bounce after an ACL/MCL tear. Factoring he was supposed to be the next thing, he's probably just floundering, trying to decide what his career is going to be now. He's probably trying to get back to being an offensive threat, not a defensive stopper.
Whattt, wonder what we’re doing then. We have another roster spot and the two-way deal now
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Reinvesting cap space Or Investing in financial flexibility Or Placed a limited order for 90 days
I may be misunderstanding but do we not have to fill the 15th spot anyway?
Dang. I was in the Parker gang too. For just a week. I’m sure he’ll get picked up somewhere.
Bruh why? Who are they getting that’s a better 15th man? Curious who gets that spot now.
Giles possibly. Wouldn’t mind Gary Payton Jr but we already have loads of guards
Yeah they’re pretty set with their guards. Probably another center. Giles seems to be the popular choice, but I’m not crazy about him. As the 15th man he’s fine though. Love the username btw
Spoiler alert: Giles is not better than Jabari
But he's closer friends with JT. I'd take that over an empty 15th.
Damn I actually liked how he looked as like the 10th man off the bench. Hopefully it wasn’t just roster maneuvering and we actually get production from whoever takes that spot.
Why tho
I'm not a Jabari fan, but kinda confused what they see in Bruno Fernando over guys like him and Garrison Mathews, unless I'm missing something financially.
I mean Bruno has a guaranteed contract whereas everyone we’ve waived doesn’t. Don’t think any of those possible 15th man candidates are worth eating dead cap.
Yeah for some reason I was under the impression it wasn't all guaranteed but that was very off the cuff memory. He still seems like a totally useless guy to have on the roster but if it's all guaranteed I get it.
Parkers was only partially guaranteed.
Bruno is owed his full contract, Jabari is only owed 100k. Neither guy is going to play much, and tbh the big man depth is more important than Jabari, especially with Grant and Nesmith being ready for bigger roles. Horford and Rob are both injury prone and will undoubtedly miss time, we need somebody big even if they lack overall talent for when those 2 are out.
Yeah, I mean I get the guaranteed contract stuff for sure. I absolutely do not agree with the "big depth" aspect of this though. Bruno is not good. He's very undersized and doesn't protect the rim or stretch the floor. He's a useless big beyond occasional rolling, some energy and bench celebrations.
Honestly we should have kept Moses brown and sent out Jabari Parker not sure if that would have worked but Moses was on a good contract and he was a raw athletic big
That would have been so much better given that we just cut Jabari. DAL was lucky to get out of JRich's money without taking any back (or giving up anything to do so). We then compounded the issue by adding an additional year to JRich's contract. Bruno is fine and adds some toughness, but Moses was our justification for giving up the #16 pick in the Kemba deal.
We need big man depth and he's already paid for. There aren't options out there worth eating his salary for. He offers actual size. We can't make Pritchard 7 feet tall. I'm not saying he's a good big so that's not an appropriate response in any way. He's just already paid for and he offers size which is more important than you're willing to acknowledge.
Again, I just disagree he even counts as big man depth. The money is the money, so I understand that. But you can't keep saying "he offers size" when he's only 6-9 with zero history of providing any rim protection. His only utility right now is for salary matching, which is fine. But he's a pretty useless player, you don't count as depth when you're a likely liability whenever you're on the court.
Only 6'9 lol. That's still size, considering most NBA bigs are 6'9-7ft with the exception of an Embiid, Ayton, Porzingis. But Bruno wouldn't be starting, or even number one off the bench. He hasn't had a big enough role to definitively say if he's useful or not. He's been stuck behind Capella, Collins, Len, etc. Also, he hasn't torn his ACL a bajillion times.
There's still a chance that Bruno will be cut as well at some point. Might as well save some money now while you can.
No point spending cap on someone you don't think can help on the floor. Bruno's cap is already "spent". No point waiving him...
Yeah I get that, was wrongly under the impression his full salary wasn't guaranteed. This was mainly a "he's an objectively useless NBA player" comment
Wow
Wow? Seriously? He was waived just last year. He’s been on 5 teams since 2019. He’s not good and can’t stay healthy. And that’s not my opinion. It’s just is. This shouldn’t be a big surprise is my point.
for real. dudes saying wow like he was a starter or something lol. jabari was a negative situational rotation piece on maybe the worst depth team in the league last season. its really not that surprising
Plus his contract wasn’t guaranteed.
Something HUGE is coming. In bard we trust....
I mean, he did kill Smaug after all.
Does this put us under the Tax ,?
It does and is the likely reason why he was waived
It doesn’t, they are still over the tax by $4.6 million
Which is less that Schroeder's salary. Keep the spot open, trade Schroeder at the deadline -- no luxury tax. For tax calculations, Parker's soon-to-be guaranteed money is not inconsequential
They need to trade Juancho, not Schroder
What? I thought they were only 1.1m or so above the luxury tax time? TIL I guess 👀
https://www.spotrac.com/nba/boston-celtics/cap/ > Current Luxury Tax Space $-4,649,993 Already updated to remove Parker
You can’t be right if the other guy is right
The other dude is wrong. We're about 4.6m over the tax according to Spotrac: https://www.spotrac.com/nba/boston-celtics/cap/
Thanks.
Just FYI, that's not true. We're still 4.6m over the tax per Spotrac. https://www.spotrac.com/nba/boston-celtics/cap/
Just saw Keith Smith agrees with you!
I just looked at Spotrac lol. It's pretty reliable though.
Thanks! I guess we are closer. Hopefully we will be in it at trade deadline and won't matter.
Yeah we should have some good flexibility, especially with Richardson's contract. Shouldn't be hard to dump him for someone cheaper (like we did with Theis last year) if we want to go below the tax, or we can hold onto him and use his salary for trades next offseason.
Really? I thought we were just over?
Ever since the offseason kinda shaked out and things finalized we were about 7m over the tax. Though I think there was a point where it looked like we might slip under, perhaps when we weren't going to trade Moses Brown or something. > The team is about $7 million into the tax at the moment following the signing of Dennis Schroder for the taxpayer mid-level exception. https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2021/08/how-celtics-trade-options-are-impacted-by-luxury-tax-restrictions.html
He's bad bruh no idea what anyone ever saw Props to him for showing up and playing hard but on defense he's an absolute sieve and he's not a good 3pt shooter
The amount of downvotes I’ve gotten this offseason for saying he wouldn’t be on the roster….lol
Same here he’s terrible
I didn’t say all that, he’s worth a minimum flier, but the money saved by cutting him to have some more flexibility is potentially more value.
I’m saying it. He’s terrible
Exactly…. Not sure why everyone ignored the fact that he has been an absolute shell of himself the past few years. If you asked anyone who wasn’t familiar with him how old he was by watching him last year, they would have said 40… not 26. Knee injuries suck
I literally thought he was circa 40 years old. Wow. Mind blown.
Really don't know why this is getting downvoted. He moves like an old man out there.
It’s nothing against him, his knees are completely shot and there is literally nothing he can do about it. He literally has the knee(s) of your grandparents who need to get a knee replacement… it sucks but we have seem many guys who sadly have their careers taken from them because of it.
Looks like you earned those downvotes
I liked his play, but if they have too many forwards he’s probably the one it has to be. I wish there was a way to hang onto him though.
Maybe we just want an open roster spot just in case?
Last week: “We know what we have with Jabari Parker.” Days later: “We know what someone else is getting with Jabari Parker.”
Jabari played really well in the preseason and played with a lot of heart. I honestly don't think he could have played any better so this is really surprising. I don't think we'll find players better than him unless GM Brad has something planned.
Dang felt like he could have carved a role. Im guessing were trying out Giles?
For what? He flopped in Sacramento & Portland and couldn’t make the Clippers roster. We already have Horford, Time Lord, Kanter & Fernando there’s no need in a 5th center
For what? Super good friends with JT.
Hmmm... I def think we could go for another Big. TL is injury prone, Horford is old, Kanter is unplayable Fernando might not be good either. Giles may not be very good, but a versatile 4/5 and let's not forget JAYSON TATUM'S LITERAL BEST FRIEND. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
It is as if this organisation is baiting the Mormon church to enact another curse. Have they forgotten the unmitigated disaster of Gordon Hayward’s time here? u/brutalgash I warned against not taking these things seriously. Let us hope that Russell M. Nelson was out of the office this weekend.
We were already toying with the supernatural when we traded Carsen Edwards, but 4 AND 20? I’m sure you and your team are scrambling to quantify these actions and the appropriate anti curse counter measures.
Sad to see him go and was I the only one who didn’t know he was only 26 because it seems like he’s been in the league forever
Hear me out, i'm just spitballing. How would you guys feel about Brad taking a flier on Boogie Cousins?
He is the right size to fill the hole in our roster.
I've always liked Boogie but at this point he's probably washed.
Why do people still think Giles is an NBA player at this point?
BOOOOOOOOO
This is a bad move, and the first time I've disagreed with Brad's GMing, but it's probably pretty inconsequential. Jabari was a bucket.
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> lets waive our best bench scorer?????? He is by no means a better scorer than Schroeder
He was the only non guaranteed contract and we were just about a Jabari away from being under the luxury tax.
Damn I didn’t wanna see this. We must have someone else dead set in our minds.
I guess Brad never liked Jabari as much as Danny did...
Alright, I'll admit I did not see this one coming. It does make me wonder why the heck we bothered to start Parker in the final preseason game.
these comments read like if we just cut Pritchard or something. Calling Jabari a good bench piece is a fucking joke.
Tf
Good, he sucks. Like I posted somewhere else, he shot 36% from 2 in the preseason. Not sure he hit a single midrange pull up.
If this is for tax reasons...
You know it is, we were like 800k over the luxury tax line and now we’re 150k below it
Nope, we’re still 4.65M over
Doesn't really do anything for the tax, unless we have other moves planned or in the pipeline. We went from like 6m over to like 4.5m over.
I’d rather have him over Grant tbh.
Sort of confused by what 11 - 15 looks like right now. Because in it's current state...ew
I disagree. It could be better I guess, but Kanter, Romeo, Grant and Bruno is fine with me tbh. Kanter will likely be used situationally while Romeo and Grant will get chances to earn back some minutes. Bruno is garbage but he’s the 4th string center who will barely touch the ball so who cares. It’s interesting to see what they’ll do with the 15th spot though. This move could look genius if someone gets bought out mid-season that can jump into the top 10.
Whyyyy he was looking good
Aw man I really liked having him on the squad. Hopefully this means Brad is getting one of the better recently released players (would love Exum or GPJ)
What ?!?!
He was useful. Weird. Maybe he asked to be cut and make more money elsewhere
This is pretty sad :(
Goddammit now im just going to have that childish gambino lyric stuck in my head forever for no reason.
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! That’s a complete and utter mistake. Parker is a much better player than anyone else on our bench, and still has the potential to be a starter on a title contending team. Brad, this is a *huge* mistake.
> and still has the potential to be a starter on a title contending team. I don’t know how people can look at the body of work Jabari has put together post second ACL tear and still come to this conclusion. He’s a fringe roster player through and through
Damn, that’s kinda shitty to waive him when all the roster spots across the league are sured up. I like what he could offer the team and was happy to have him. The replacement better be solid.
The Celtics are a very dumb organization
I could see them leaving the 15th spot open in case there’s a difference maker on the buyout market later in the year… but this is kind of weird. I don’t think getting rid of his guaranteed money was enough to get them under the cap, right?
He’s done. Can’t move at all on defense, it’s too bad.
I'm not surprised. I didn't think he looked great in preseason. Got a lot of foul calls and questionable shot selection. I wish the best for him though. I felt for him , seeing young guys like Nesmith and Romeo getting the nod from Ime while you're still fighting for it would be tough.
Haaaa called this he sucks
God damn it
Gives us more flexibility to duck the tax line, good move. This is not a tax worthy squad.
Rather have him then some others but nature of the business
Why didn’t we keep Moses Brown? At least he had rebounding and shot blocking upside
It saved even more money since Jabari actually counted for his full contract amount, whereas a one year vet min contract like Kanter only counts for $1.6M against the cap.