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Rumor: Celtics trade Sully, #16 to Charlotte for #9

This deal makes sense if the Celtics think they can scoop up Willie Cauley-Stein or Myles Turner with the 9th pick. Unless…  they plan on including 9 in some mega-deal with the Sixers.

As for Sullinger, I’d say his time here was a bit of a disappointment. Maybe if he gets in real shape, he can become a consistent force in this league.

PS – Hey Ashley Stro, how you doin’?

UPDATE:

I’ll take Bulpett’s word over Ashley any day.

UPDATE #2:

Looks like Sully is staying in Boston. Ashley – can we still get that drink you promised me?

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  • eddysamson

    My guess is we do this deal and then try to package Smart + someone else (or more picks) along with #9 to further move up.

    Also I saw a twitter post that a lot of the deals that actually seem like they will happen tonight have not been leaked or announced in any way and will surprise us (as is usually the case). So don’t be surprised if we randomly trade with the Knicks and it involves random ass people like Wallace that we weren’t expecting.

    • NE_Celt

      I prefer to be surprised…although when we traded away KG and PP…I wasn’t too thrilled with that surprise. But since we don’t have any players of that level at the moment…I am ready for my surprise this year haha.

  • Lee in Oregon

    DA has long been unhappy with Sully’s ‘conditioning’…..I thought he’d get one more year to change, apparently not. Go Danny!

    • eddysamson

      I thought so too after how good he looks lately (check his twitter out). He looks like he has more of a Bass body now. Too bad we might not get to see him in truly good shape this year.

      • Fitzy

        LOL i’m a believer in Sully, but Bass body? Come on bro, Bass looks like he’s been lifting everyday for the last 10 years. He’s shredded.

        • eddysamson

          I don’t mean his exact musculature but more of his overall shape.

        • Sean McLaughlin

          Looks like he’s slimmed right the heck down…

          • Andre

            The true litmus will be if he maintains this physique throughout the season.

          • Sean McLaughlin

            Very true.

    • swissflix

      This is why the deal won’t go down- Sully only has one more year on his rookie contract and is injury prone. Nobody will take him- if we traded him away for a pick it would probably only be a seconder rounder at this point.

  • Jaedre

    If we going for #3 from Philly we BETTER not include Smart now… 16th and Smart ok but 9th and smart NO. 9th, Bradley or 9th and Turner or 9th and anyone else but Smart or IT4

  • MadLad

    LOVE IT!! Sully is what he is…and what tops that list is…injury prone big guy! No way char does this deal. Not sure how any NBA team can desire Sully at this point. Then again, Charlotte is a disaster of a franchise, so maybe they are this dumb.
    Let hope so!

  • Andre

    $10 says we see nothing special happen and stick with #16 and #28 and end up with some 6’10 PF and a SG that we don’t need.

    • Curt Hays

      except he’ll be 6’9″ and about 280 lbs.

      • Andre

        Sully 2.0

        • Curt Hays

          Sully>Bass>Baby…and there are plenty of others.

          • Andre

            I just have to throw this out there somewhere, if George Karl believes an un-proven commodity is a better fit than DMC he’s a damn fool.

          • Curt Hays

            It appears that George Karl just wants Denver in Sacramento. I’m betting he just doesn’t want to deal with Boogie on a daily basis, and, since he is 2nd all-time in wins, he feels like he can get his way.

    • Andre

      Well I wasn’t too off unfortunately… except dude is 6’8″ but hopefully his tenacity and wingspan can overcome his vertical shortcomings.

  • Sean McLaughlin

    YAY! (in regards to the update)

  • Sean McLaughlin
    • Andre

      Well that just about closes that case…

      • Sean McLaughlin

        Yerp. For now anyway. I hope Ainge gives him one more year. If you scroll down, I posted a new pic of him. Definitely looks like he’s losing weight already. Should be cut come preseason. If he gets back to OSU weight maybe he’ll start taking over like he did there…

  • fannak

    Hey redsarmy, the nba draft is tonight!

  • stephen

    wish this would have happened and then maybe we could have stole winslow