Boston Celtics waive Kris Joseph, Jarvis Varnado
The Celtics celebrated a rather macabre NBA holiday this afternoon, the annual exodus of players with non-guaranteed deals who haven’t been impressive to earn guaranteed deals, by cutting Jarvis Varnado and Kris Joseph. Per Marc Stein of ESPN, the deadline to cut non-guaranteed deals before they become guaranteed is tomorrow at 5 pm.
This move is disappointing, although it shouldn’t be entirely surprising. Varnado, a hard-working shot-blocker and rebounder in the D-League, is the kind of player that sounded useful to the Celtics when he was signed two weeks ago, and Kris Joseph is a rookie. It’s always hard to see a rookie get waived. But although we’d love to see players develop within the Celtics’ system, both Varnado and Joseph are older rookies without a ton of room for improvement. More importantly, Varnado was competing for minutes with Jared Sullinger and Brandon Bass while Joseph went up against Pierce and Green. There really weren’t a lot of minutes available at either position.
Interestingly, waiving Varnado and Joseph leaves the Celtics with more room for future deals. We are all very pleased with the last two games, and it certainly feels like the Celtics have turned a corner even if the sample size is much, much, much too small to make any kind of real judgment. But if Boston takes another turn for the worse (*knocking on all the wood*), this leaves some room for roster tinkering. Obviously, it would be ideal if no tinkering was necessary, but this gives the Celtics more wiggle room if it is.
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Considering how bad JG is, giving up on KJ is just flat out stupid. It would have been better to waive Collins. Joseph always made something happen in the extremely limited minutes he got and I guarantee you he will prove his value elsewhere and the Cs will regret making this move. I really hope JG is gone after Jan 15th., but who would want his lame game??? Go Cs…bad move re KJ!
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At Maine KJ averaged 17.7 points and 5.3 rebounds in 10 games. So why? Go Cs…
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They are clearing up cap space to make a move stay tuned
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They are clearing up cap space to make a move stay tuned
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Yep, $400K is going to break any deal? Sorry, try again. Go Cs…dumb move.
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the rumor is they are trying to make a multi player trade or there trying to add a player to help right now Joseph is a great young player for future but C’s are trying to win now and realise they need a big that salary dump could bring a vet in during buyout season if the move they are trying to make falls through.dont believe me check it out the link http://www.celticsblog.com/2013/1/6/3844376/rumor-celtics-seeking-multi-player-trade?ref=yahoo
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I understand what the Cs are trying to do, but cutting a non-guaranteed contract that was for $400K for an extremely promising rookie is just stupid. Who’s more valuable; JC who gets 1 reb and usually 3-4 PFs and no pts or keeping a player that if JG is traded can grow into the SF role? PP isn’t playing forever. Sometimes cutting everything for the now isn’t always the best solution. I don’t believe in sacrificing the future for the now. How about the Joe Johnson trade as a glaring example of why making moves like this is not always prudent? – We got crap back -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Johnson_(basketball)
After you read about JJ’s time as a Celtic read the next section about his time as a Sun. Where are Rodgers and Delk now??? Could we have used JJ the last 6 years? Sorry, but no one will ever convince me that saving $400K on a promising rookie, who played well for the Cs when given the minutes, is good for the team by letting him go. I’d rather trade players not performing and we have plenty of those to use. Go Cs…
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i agree with you that the JJ trade for Rodgers and Delk was bad, but comparing JJ (a 10th overall pick at 20 yrs old who started 33 of his first 38 games) with KJ (who played 6 games and was the 51st overall pick at age 23) just cant be done. He was dispensible, we need size NOW.
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Im from Toronto Kris Joseph is from Montreal I have followed him for a while I also followed him at Syracuse he is going to be a solid player one day and also Basketball Canada he will play a big part we have a scout who comes to our local barber shop and raves about his game so we could regret this move in the future but we must get a big even if we cant get Cousins we need a guy who can block shots and rebound at the bare minimum
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Oh yeah and Collins should not touch the court he succcccckkkssss him and his 1 pt,1 reb average should go play in China dont know why DA signed him
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Joseph isn’t necessarily gone for good. from what I read the Cs can wait and see how the situation evolves, and eventually sign him back for a 10-days contract. What it doesn’t make sense is the Varnado deal: why signing a guy and letting him rot on the bench? Not that he deserved significant minutes, in my opinion, but then why did they sign him beforehand? It happened before with Finley and Murphy, among others. Mysteries of Doc’s rotations…
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