Boston Celtics Rumors
Chris Haynes: I would ‘think’ he would be re-sign with Boston, but New York has always been in play. He is communicating again with LeBron James and you have to think that LeBron will be ringing his phone this summer – maybe even before the summer (laughs).”
Chris Haynes on where Anthony Davis will be to start the 2019-20 season: “I’m going to go with the Lakers. That’s my prediction: I think he starts next season with the Lakers… If he maintains the stance that he’s not doing Boston [long-term] – and that’s with or without Kyrie [Irving] – I think LA has the best package. We may have to wait and see about New York because if they get the No. 1 overall pick, they could be in the game as well. But I think, at the end of the day, he’ll end up in LA.”
But Danny Ainge said Friday the Celts didn’t have what the better players wanted. “I talked with some players that were available,” Ainge said, “but a lot of guys that are available are looking for commitments to play and start and X amount of minutes, and we don’t have that. We don’t have that available.”
“A lot of people don’t realize on the outside that a lot of things that are said get into the locker room,” Irving said in an interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols, coincidentally also released Wednesday. “A lot of things that are put in headlines get into locker rooms. Media has broken up locker rooms. It’s been done before, where you say something and it’s misinterpreted. And instead of addressing it with the person and individual, like human interaction, you read it on your phone. You read it on a text. “Someone says to you, ‘Hey, did you see what this person said about you?’ and it’s your teammate. You’re like, ‘I didn’t hear that.’ You hold back, you don’t say anything to them, and then throughout the season, it ends up coming out again.”
“We looked at all the players that were in buyout situations and players in the G League and so forth,” Ainge said Friday. “But, I mean, a lot of guys in the buyout market are looking for commitments and promises to play, and we don’t have minutes. And when we’re healthy, we have plenty of guys. We don’t have an obvious hole.”
“I hope nothing happens to any of our players between now and the next couple weeks,” Ainge said. “But in case something does, we may have a hole that we need to fill more. But until then we just keep it open and see what we need.”
Ainge was not able to address a possible Davis deal specifically, but when asked about the possibility of signing a player to a two-year deal with the intention of using the salary in a trade this summer, he said: “We’ve looked at all those possibilities, yeah. We’re just waiting to see. Nothing is in the works.”
