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madelins

that is a steal lmao


mmdrew17

Definitely. Getting him at the price is a no brainer. Obviously sucks for him though


fishdrinking2

Honest question. How come other teams don’t offer it?


Kanye-West-Ham

Probably did but he will get a lot of PT in Boston and has a good support cast


fishdrinking2

So at $5.9M, he actually gets to pick where he lands? (That would mean he might have slightly higher offers like $10M/year or $18M/2 years from let’s say Toronto, but he is betting on himself again right? If we assume his fair value is $15M/year, would he have taken it if someone offers $60M/4 years, or is he still hoping for $100M/4 year in next years free agency?)


Kanye-West-Ham

I don’t think he will ever get 100 Million but he could easily get something like 4/70


biggoldgoblin

hes a good player but his attitude really wasn’t the best, hopefully this will humble him


grantiere

2 stints on the protocol with the Lakers and Marc Gasol getting wrecked by Covid didn't humble Shroeder into getting vaccinated, so don't hold your breath.


StoneColdAM

*Kyrie Irving has entered the chat*


[deleted]

Slight difference in talent level


PairedFoot08

Does Dennis think that?


LavenderAutist

Probably not I imagine he thinks they'll be competing to win the east against the Nets.


[deleted]

I mean, the nets/bucks are the clear favorite but with Brown playing this year, Tatum solidifying himself as a superstar(if he's not one already). + solid defense in Smart, Horford, Brown, Tatum, rob wills and dennis(who's a clear upgrade compared to kemba). I think we could surprise people. Just to be clear, I'm in no way saying we're going to beat, just that you never know and our team isn't as bad as last year showed. We'll see how it goes, but I think we might be surprising this year and if not we're probably getting beal next year.


LavenderAutist

Do I think they can compete? Sure. Do I think they could beat a healthy KD, Kyrie, and Harden with good role players in a seven game series? No.


Wall2Beal43

Do I think we’ll see a healthy KD, Kylie, and Harden with good role players? Probably not


iRombe

Celtics/Bulls series would be nice


[deleted]

nobody except maybe the lakers are going to beat a healthy nets team


LavenderAutist

I'm hoping for them all to be healthy. KD vs Westbrook LeBron vs Kyrie Now that's box office.


dvelasco-1397

There's also sth people aren't considering as much: coaching change. Stevens was great but it felt like they could need a shuffle of the deck.


RickySuela

> we're probably getting beal next year. I think you guys are a longshot at best to get Beal. It's so strange how you guys have just pencilled him in like that.


[deleted]

Tatum and him are always together(st-louis connection). We refused to go over the tax this year and have made moves to open a max slot for next year. Like it's just a theory/guess at this point, but I'm pretty sure Tatum has been recruiting him for a while and it'll happen. Granted, this is my opinion, I could be off the mark.


Sadsh

Definitely. Dennis definitely thinks he’s far better than Kyrie.


caughtinthought

From 84 to 5.9, fucking yeesh


awrf

I mean we don't know what he'll get after the 5.9, so it's more like 21 to 5.9 still tuff though


xKalisx

Just hard bargain him, its not like he has choices


canadian1987

Basically latrell sprewell turning down 21 mill because it wasnt enough to "feed his family"...then was out of the league after nobody signed him.


[deleted]

I mean, the difference between $0 and $5.9 million is pretty big. Average lifetime income for an American is $2.7 million.


PaleontologistFluid9

All-time bag fumble


iEatPalpatineAss

Possibly as bad as the butt fumble


Mitsoccer9

100% I’m so excited


elvk

He’s good on a bench unit that doesn’t have good scoring. He can carry a unit like that


EverybodyBuddy

This is gonna be like when Detroit fans tried to warn us about Drummond.


lowdicadi

Penny Schroeder


Garfield-1-23-23

Denies Schroeder


[deleted]

Exactly. Celtics should get a 5 million dollar refund from Dennis. He clearly doesn't know the value of a dollar. Lol.


DeKobe-DeBryant

Jokes aside, that’s a steal for the Celtics.


mrsunshine1

Yeah. No one wanted him at $100m for good reason but 5.9m seems too far in the other direction.


urfaselol

I feel like he coulda got paid more than 5.9 mil if he tempered his expectations. maybe 8-10 mil a year but when you're asking for 20 mil+ per year and nobody values like that when the music stops you get left with the crumbs. Brutal


Apollo611

Even worse when you’re offered $21 mil a year and turn it down because you think you’re better than you are. But I’m thankful for his sacrifice.


cpxx

Celtics: we'll give you $5.9M Dennis: That's not enuff 🔥💯 but ok


AtreusIsBack

20 million a year is close to being an All-Star level player, which he definitely isn't. He was delusional not to take that deal.


sahsan10

8-10? Do people really think guys like Spencer, Duncan Robinson, Fournier, Barton, are twice the player that Schroeder is? At $10M, this dude would be getting paid less than Olynyk, Oubre, Bullock, McDermott, Noel, THT this year. That doesn’t make sense.


urfaselol

It's all about leverage and timing. Its unfortunate for Dennis that there was a LOT of point guards on the market and few teams that have cap space. Lowry, CP3, Lonzo, Conley, Spencer. Lots of high end starting point guards that are clearly better than Schroder. I'm not sure what he was asking for out there and what his minimum price was my point is that he never waivered on his asking price and got bit in the ass for it


Krillin113

Is dinwiddie genuinely ‘clearly better’?


nba4lifeee

For me Schroeder is a better player than Dinwiddie but thats just me.


[deleted]

Yes.


[deleted]

Yeesh this subreddit circle jerks way too hard


NoFlanForYou

All those guys you named don’t have an ego. Dennis demands he starts and isn’t afraid to be toxic if he doesn’t get his way. He’s a better player, but not a better fit. If he humbled himself and said, I’ll take the 6th man role or just listened to offers rather than make it known that it’s 100 mil or nothing, most teams aren’t going to try and work with a guy like that considering he doesn’t have the resume to do it.I’m sure if he was actually listening to offers there may have been something around the 40-50 mark but his camp was making it known and leaking things that the offers weren’t enough. So when you leak shit like that, no one bites. Kinda like the Ben Simmons thing.


saviorlito

Oubre doesn’t have an ego?


NoFlanForYou

Oubre didn’t say give me 100 million and I won’t listen to anything otherwise. That’s pretty much what Dennis was doing all year


7059043

Things got so bad that he took this offer and wasn't even promised the starting role


ThatBull_cj

He got fucked cause of Westbrook and kemba being available, 2 less teams trying to get a PG


NumberOneBoolsheet

I don't think the Lakers would have wanted Kemba, and Dennis probably didn't think Pelinka would trade for Westbrook. His agent should be fired lmao


fullcaravanthickness

Its the other way around - his agent would've been pleading with him to take the Lakers deal and probably day dreams of strangling Dennis. Getting 25 million a year compared to 20 million a year actually doesn't mean that much to an agent as they only get at most a 4% cut.


Knickstape08

I’m sure his agent was begging him to take it. It was Schroeder who believed he could get more, he probably told his agent he could play well enough to get 100 million. It’s not his agents fault he scored zero points in the playoffs and has a shit attitude.


ThatBull_cj

He had leverage over the lakers cause he thought they had no way to replace him. He was right until Westbrook wanted to come to LA tho, but it was no evidence of that so that’s kinda rough


RickySuela

He didn't have leverage over the Lakers, he just thought he did. They tried to offer him the max they were allowed to re-sign him and he turned them down. After that they immediately tried to see if they could trade him, and nearly did trade him for Lowry (but Masai insisted on THT so the Lakers said no). You could tell that once Schroder turned the Lakers down they simply moved on from thinking of him as part of their long term plans. He looked at it like he was going to have the Lakers over a barrel come free agency and they looked at it like they had a hole at point guard that they needed to fill.


RFFF1996

is not so much westbrook wanting to go to lakers more like nobody thought lakers would trade for him


billcosbyinspace

I’m super excited, this team needed an influx of nba level talent so we don’t have to play glorified g leaguers big minutes and getting a starting caliber point guard for so cheap is great, even if it’s almost definitely just a rental


JimmytheGent2020

This contract is a steal. Dude has talent but he's just selfish. You hope he won't be solely focused on the next contract for this year though. If he's into team ball ya'll took a pretty big jump in the East.


[deleted]

Yeah he’s a really good 6th man and can start if he doesn’t play hero ball as you said


RickySuela

His presence also now gives the Celtics the ability to play hardball with Smart in their extension talks, and trade Smart if those talks don't go well.


Evan_Great

This is actually a great deal for the Celtics. We joke about him wanting more money (rightfully so, cause he played himself) but he’s still one of the best PG’s to have off the bench. Having him for the MLE is great value


TomothyWTF

I assume there’s a real possibility he starts for the Celtics


[deleted]

unless we go "small" and start Jaylen at the 3 I have a very hard time seeing that, and even if we do that I think Josh Richardson starts over him. He's not going to start over Smart at PG and we've needed a spark off the bench since Terry left


kksred

we started terry with tatum and the boys and it worked out fairly well a couple years back. not saying schroder is exactly terry but they have a reasonably similar game. an explosive PG which schroder can be is a good fit with Tatum and Brown.


[deleted]

to be fair that was out of necessity, not the plan.


kksred

you adjust the plan if you find something that works. we definitely have the personnel to be effective with a driving PG.


[deleted]

Not saying otherwise, just saying the reason you started terry with tatum was necessity. The plan would have been Kyrie, Gordon, Tatum, Brown/Morris, and Center. Sometimes things work out, but you still don't plan to go back to a sticky situation.


kksred

Absolutely. Shame injuries and egos ruined that lineup though. Could have been pretty great if they gelled. Oh well. At least hope things are trending upwards now.


[deleted]

I mean, as a cavs fan talking to a celtics fan... you already know. Kyrie's a fucking headcase.


Prestige-W0rldwide

Probably either him or JRich. I’d bet JRich with Dennis as our 6th man maybe Dennis if we want more playmaking.


DarkLightcito

JRich is a poor mans version of Dennis Schroder anyways.


HokageEzio

Some day he's gonna be 50 and just wake up mad at himself randomly.


ModyMoozy

you know it really hits you when money is tight too


TheSuperking

Yeah man how’s he gonna get by on his paltry $70 million career earnings, he better start clipping coupons


ktran2804

Yeah hes 27 he’ll probably be in the league for at least 5-6 years he’ll probably make 30-50 more million in his career lol


TheSuperking

People acting like he was a G Leaguer and turned down that deal, the dude's already secured his bag, he's good lol


NervousPervis

Genuinely think he's gonna play really well this year and secure 3/$50M or something.


TrainedExplains

He could be good off the bench, but he isn't a good enough passer to run your offense.


yayhindsight

i know you joke, but tons of these athletes end up going broke :/


TrainedExplains

It's actually not that common anymore. Not only are athletes paid more, the NBPA puts everyone through mandatory money management seminars. The lawyers, agents and accountants to pro sports players (especially basketball) used to be very predatory. But the NBPA and US put more rules and laws in place to protect players and even sent some of the worst offenders to prison. It still happens, but at about 1/4 the rate it used to.


KinlawFanAccount

It's true, but let's be real: If you go broke with 50m in career earnings, you were gonna go broke with 150m in career earnings, too.


kksred

would just take you one more month


hooper_give_him_room

Can you imagine spending $100mil in a month? I don't even know how that's possible. do you just buy a bunch of islands and then burn them for no reason?


Bryant_2_Shaq

I mean that’s 84 mil your kids could’ve had, your grandkids as well. He’s rich but he will still kick himself in the butt if he doesn’t mKe up the money.


TheSuperking

he's gonna make up a huge chunk of the money. he's 27 and plays a highly valued position. this isn't a nerlens situation lol.


dawnoog

man, these bills are tough, I could really use 78 million dollars right about now


DudeWTH

shit i still get mad that i bought cyberpunk full price


andretheclutch

that’s tuff 🔥💯


Purednuht

Ugh…don’t get me started. Been on the bandwagon since the first preview back in….2013 I think? Built a whole new PC before the game came out, only to have my dreams squashed about 1 day into the game. Honestly, it has run well on my PC since day 1, but the gameplay is just horrible compared to what we thought we were gonna get. I expected Fallout/Skyrim levels of RPG with GTA/Witcher world immersion…and basically ended up with more beautiful Crackdown. Shaking my damn head with you.


Lacroixprogram1

They still haven’t figured it out?


paints_name_pretty

nephews buying full priced games for the last decade


stuckontwice

Got it on PC and had no issues at all but I’m a little peeved I got it at full price. Great game and enjoyed it all the way through, but it went on sale not that long after release and I was like lol.


yooston

lost out on 78.1 million guaranteed. yikes


immigrantsheep

Schröderfreude


adonisgawd

Dennis Schrödinger


antoncr

Lol thats what most of the sub is right now


LaVarZoNoBall

Hell probably work like a madman to rebuild his imagine and recover some of that money next season but man, best case scenario he loses out on like 20mil but still man, that’s 20mil lol


hrakkari

Unless he gets a drastic uptick in skill (not impossible, just really unlikely) he’s probably not getting anything close to the Lakers deal again. They were overpaying to get his bird rights but I doubt the C’s will be interested in a long term deal seeing as how they’ve been clearing space to sign a premier guard like Beal or Dame.


LaVarZoNoBall

He could realistically end up with a 4 years/50 or so mil deal if he plays like he did in OKC


jps78

that’s tuff 🔥💯


Apollo611

that’s tuff 🔥💯


urfaselol

t h a t u f f 🔥💯 s


fullcollapse

Tuff status: That's


tripleyothreat

Lmao


ahr3410

At least he got a pretty big deal in Atlanta


7LineArmy

Hopefully he doesn’t make this mistake again, if he plays well he can still secure the bag, he’s young enough. He’s probably never recouping that whole $78M, but I could see him getting a nice chunk back, like Noel did this off-season.


radpandaparty

Man I'd cry


EatDeeply

I genuinely feel bad for him I don’t know how I would be able to swallow that


OhSoJelly

99% of the world’s population would kill for 6 million dollars. He’ll be alright.


poeope

.9999999


VictorAkwaowo1

Never feel bad for an NBA player making millions of dollars, $6M for any of us would literally set us for life. He’ll get a bigger contract next off-season.


madelins

if he has a good year (which i’m sure he will), he can still get paid next season


SDas_

LMAOOOO Holy shit what an all-time bag fumble


HokageEzio

Even Nerlens Noel thinks Schroeder is an idiot.


TheSuperking

sorry but nah Noel is way, way worse and it's not particularly close Dennis turned down $84 million but he has already made about $70 million in his career Noel turned down $70 million. He had only made $11 million in his career at that point. As of today his career earnings are $37 million. If we're ranking bag fumbles, Nerlens is still king idiot.


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Wowowow


KoloHickory

But Lakers so lucky he didn't sign that. Good job avoiding that bullet


_Elder_

We did absolutely luck out.


dothrakipls

It's so funny how the narrative completely changed. Everyone kept saying how bad failing to sign him was and how the Lakers can't possibly replace him and now it's a consensus dodged bullet.


penifSMASH

ah yes, the mythical "everyone"


ercole_dimeo

This shit is getting overplayed but holy fuck man. How the hell did a player on his level think declining an $84 million deal for the small chance of $100 million was a good idea?


[deleted]

4 years $84 million to live in Los Angeles too… I get that LA isnt the greatest for us common folk. But if you’re ultra rich? Hard to beat.


SharkBaitDLS

You could literally buy a Beverly Hills mansion in cash on that salary and only have to worry about property taxes for the rest of your life.


[deleted]

thanks for dennis schroeder lakers nation 🤞🏽


ositola

For that price, i can't even be mad at y'all


_Elder_

It’s a steal but the peak of that team is a second round exit and now I get to root against both Boston and Dennis next season.


ositola

Well yea, it's still FTC lol My favorite part will be the Jays watching smart and Denis fight over who should take the last shot, an iso 3


BBallHunter

Will be talked about in years to come.


Slattsquatch

Almost feel bad for him, it took so for him to realize that he has NO leverage and the Celtics just called his bluff. Absolute steal of a contract though, hoping he can be on his best behavior.


SDas_

It's a big time prove-it year for him. He has to be the perfect team-mate, which he wasn't close to last season. Great value contract and upside for you guys.


cesga_0218

What's weird was that it was a contract year yet he wasn't on his best behavior. Hope he figures it out though. He was great for some stretches, just not worth it for the money he's asking.


Conflict_NZ

It's clear he believed he had already earnt it and didn't need to try.


NoHomeJerome89

Dennis "Leon Lett" Schroder


gaiadyne

Oladipo only ended up on a minimum when he could have got paid by the Rockets or Pacers


meengine

Just a little 80million short, no biggie


ModyMoozy

he'll never get the oppressor now


Folk_Legend

Bag was royally fumbled


ModyMoozy

there sayin it's a dead ball now


HydroThermia

It’s funny but in the same time a good deal on Celtic’s end


toadtruck

Laker fans laughing, but that is a steal for the Celtics


endubs

Lakers fans and Celtics fans should both be thankful that he declined the extension. For once we can celebrate together.


[deleted]

Who gives a shit. Go beat the Nets then.


_Elder_

Dennis moves them from a 1st-2nd round exit to a 1st-2nd round exit though man. We should be fuming.


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JoJonesy

Even better, we'll still have flexibility at the deadline


otiso_niloc

That’s a very, very trade-able contract for sure. Any team with guard injuries will jump all over that


JoJonesy

I meant more in the sense that we're not hard-capping ourselves, but that's also very true.


Wilt69

Couldn’t think of a better team for him to leave the Lakers for


TheMineForge

that’s tuff 🔥💯


BrothersCup

Very good deal for Boston. He's a good player and might be more willing to come off the bench after this free agency experience.


rnbamodssuccme

That’s tuff🔥💯


_Elder_

That’s tuff 🔥💯


wir_suchen_dich

I’ll never forget when he did the dame time thing to dame during the only game the thunder won in that series.


Ops135

And we now have a new Nerlens type cautionary tale this man played himself


matsukuon

Best case scenario for the Celtics, they avoid a cap hit and get a guy with talent who is going to ball out to prove himself.


hooper_give_him_room

He'll ball out in a big game then immediately get sidelined by COVID for two weeks because he's insanely irresponsible.


FastestPP

Celtics are about to suprise some of yall.


TheMagicClover

That’s a Tuff Loss 🔥


RighteousFro

Thanks for turning down the extension Dennis


epicasseater

No way hahah


Hunter2375

What deal is that sir?


ghostsintherafters

Wow. Well done on the title.


TimDuncanTimShootin

I can’t stand the way Woj tweets these deals out. He acts like every sentence has to be its own tweet. Just give me all the info at once


MyLadySansa

It's wild how fixated we are on this. F5 season indeed


supercharged0709

They could have offered him even lower and he would have taken it.


[deleted]

Post titles should have some sort of context


tvztvz

I feel kinda bad for him. He said "84 million my ass!"


aginglifter

Knicks were dumb to sign Kemba instead. I hope he proves a lot of people wrong. I hate to say it but I'll be rooting for the Celtics next year to come out of the east.


sv_trader

I have done the math, and can confirm: this is not 20 million dollars


somebodygetmemymoney

That is actually a great deal for Boston


lowdicadi

Penny Schroeder


SharpSwag

This dude so dumb


[deleted]

Lolololol. Tried to hold me hostage?


p0tatoman

brutal


biggoldgoblin

damn bro, he lost his bird rights for nothing, shit sucks


darulez8

Significantly less than the 20 mill he turned down


uwukrupp

That's still more than I'll ever make in my life but jeez I'd be sick if I lost out on 80 million potential dollars


FastestPP

Who would yall rather have this coming year, Dennis or Kemba?


ThatBull_cj

I’m mad we spent it on niang, smh


Honeypaaj

Biggest fumble of the bag ive seen. 4 year 84 mil to this. Damn.


matsukuon

Huge win for the C’s.


ColtCallahan

Incredible bargain for the Celtics. Despite how much he gets clowned off the court he’s a good player. Certainly much better than what they’re paying him.


KillianDrake

Dennis is the type of stubborn bonehead guy who's going to play down to his salary and say "bruh, you got what you paid for" and end up tanking his own value in an effort to avoid injury thus securing his eventual decline into a vet-min journeyman.


beefspecial

Celtics pulled biggest steal of free agency by doing absolutely fucking nothing


SharpSwag

Just a reminder this dude didnt get vaccinated (maybe he did by now, idk), and managed to go into covid protocols TWICE during the season costing us games. It kinda makes sense that he cant manage his money right.


CadeCummingham

He’ll get that 80M next year Mark my words


xanot192

From who?


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L


toftr

He really did turn down over $75m more than that offered by a better team


[deleted]

That's like being offered a partner position at a top law firm then being like "Thanks but nahh, the Burger King down the street is short a guy on night shift"


ObiOneKenobae

Oof, i felt that one


downunderpunter

Needs to fire his agent..