Alas, December 15th is upon us: Courtney Lee, now eligible to be traded, has reportedly been “repeatedly” shopped
Yes, it’s the 349th day of the year, the 73rd anniversary of the release of Gone With the Wind, and the first day that NBA players who signed this offseason become trade eligible.
Among the list of Celtics, it has been said that Courtney Lee is the most likely of the Boston crew to get shipped elsewhere (as per ESPN’s Marc Stein). With the return of Avery Bradley around the corner, the Celtics list of two guards is longer than my 8-year-old Christmas wish list. The Celtics list for Santa Claus begins with a big man, followed up by a backup point guard.
Lee is coming off one of his stronger performances against Houston where he was an active defender and got good looks on the offensive end. He fills a void for Boston now, but it is hard to argue that Bradley doesn’t fill that hole better when he returns.
Marcin Gortat has been linked to the Celtics, but it will take more than just Lee for the Suns to part with their big man. Lets see if Danny Ainge can get creative to remedy some of the Celtics rebounding woes, or better yet take to the NBA trade machine and fulfill all of my NBA GM fantasies.
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- Courtney Lee Trade Still Expected To Happen; Houston Rockets Will Waive E’Twaun Moore, According To A Report
Celtics Blog | Jesse Doran | December 15, 2012
Lee & fab melo for gortat works
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Lee has not performed well enough to stick so he can go. Trading Fab would be idiocy. I’d rather see BB or CW go and Sullinger get the starting position. And JC is worthless so toss him in too. Go Cs…
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PLEAS GET RID OF JASON COLLINS AND COURTNEY LEE. COLLINS STARTING CENTER ????
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btw, Bass is not going anywhere until Jan, 15th
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Why would you trade AB…our best defender and one of only a few lockdown defenders in the league? I guarantee you AB is not going anywhere. Go Cs…
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I’m not in a hurry to trade him, but what if he’s the player needed to get to a starting center? reluctantly, I’d be willing to sacrifice him if it gets me, let’s say, Gortat or Josh Smith. Of course if Danny is able to “pull a Ainge” and land big man in exchange for just BB and CL, the better
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I dunno, the idea of gortat sounds great, but for what i’ve been watching we need a scorer, terry has been inconsistent as well as Paul Pierce, leaving all the work to KG, because rondo keeps passing the ball, he should start attacking more, but we all know he’s not a natural scorer as, let say, carmelo anthony. I dunno we need a jamal crawford, a consistent jason terry, a tony parker, you get me? a scoring machine…
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to me, besides the lack of size, the real problem is we are starting bench players. BB and Jet are potentially great as sparks from the bench, not so much as starters (both were brought in as 6th men)
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I would like to see starting; kg, jg,cw, pp and rondo bringing the other to fill in and jg doing 3 and 4 pp 2 and 3 i think that will work and waiting for a big to come around free agent or trade.
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lets work something out to get kevin love, get our scorer and rebounder
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