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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:12 pm    Post subject: Paul Pierce wanted to come home and play in LA this season

Instead, we signed Swaggy P.

Pierce is taking a 2 year deal (with 1 year player option)with the Wizards at same price per year as Swaggy P.

Having LA native Pierce do the last year or two of his career in LA next to Kobe would have been cool. It also would have gotten under the skin of millions of Celtics fans.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:12 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:13 pm    Post subject:

Signing Pierce would have at least been consistent with their financial plans. The Young signing makes no sense whatsoever.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:13 pm    Post subject:

Why should we sign Pierce, a CELTIC over Young who has clearly shown he loves the Lakers. Young is way more explosive a scorer than pierce
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:14 pm    Post subject:

Pierce wanted to come and play for the Clippers...he would never ball for Lakers and hurt his Celtic base.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:14 pm    Post subject:

I'd wager really good money that he only wanted to come here to play for the Clippers. As others have already opined.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:14 pm    Post subject:

You mean with the Clippers? It was never mentioned the Lakers or Pierce were interested in each other.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:15 pm    Post subject:

Young is 29 and has some years left. He could even improve more like he did last season. Pierce is close to done.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:15 pm    Post subject:

Yeah, to his daddy Doc Rivers.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:15 pm    Post subject:

The last decent Celtic SF to come to LA worked out pretty well.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:16 pm    Post subject:

LOL at the presumption that "LA" meant the Lakers.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:17 pm    Post subject:

I'm ready to give up on humanity...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:17 pm    Post subject:

Pippen Aint Easy wrote:
Why should we sign Pierce, a CELTIC over Young who has clearly shown he loves the Lakers. Young is way more explosive a scorer than pierce


because rick fox was a CELTIC and brought L.A. three championships.

Pierce is the better choice, considering he's not going to play long and he's the smarter veteran player (with a championship) than a volume shooter like nick young.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:18 pm    Post subject:

On that note, Pierce probably hates the Lakers, and by L.A. we all know he just wanted to be with Doc Rivers. But I just had to play the devil's advocate.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:28 pm    Post subject:

No point in signing Pierce.
You sign him if you want to improve.
The Lakers should sign young guys who showed not much so far but still could improve. Like last year.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:39 pm    Post subject:

Yup, would have preferred Pierce on a 2 yrs $10M deal than Swaggy P.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 11:33 am    Post subject:

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Yup, would have preferred Pierce on a 2 yrs $10M deal than Swaggy P.


I'm sure that Mitchie Kup's moves are all geared towards acquiring KLOVE, either during the season or next summer. KLOVE is the one we need, not some dime a dozen gunner like Smelo (images of John Starks clanking bricks in game 6, 1994) or LeCramp, with his fondness for misery and the mistake by the lake. There's definitely something mentally wrong with you if you're in the entertainment business and pretend to prefer the Mistake by The Lake to Hollywood.

KLOVE, the Brawney paper towel lumberjack with the two handed chest pass, low post and mid-range game, stretches the D beyond the arc, hits the outlet man lickety split, solid defense, doesn't get into foul trouble, yanks down 20 boards in his sleep, passes out of the double team like Larry Bird, puts up better numbers than Shaq. All of this with cats like Rubio... L to the O L .. oh, and dude never gets hurt!

Mitchie Kup's moves = in line with what the T-Pups need to part w/ White Moses Malone the lumberjack with a 3 point shot. KLOVELAKER14!


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:36 pm    Post subject:

RMurphy_22 wrote:
Pierce wanted to come and play for the Clippers...he would never ball for Lakers and hurt his Celtic base.


I agree, he wanted to play for DOC not Scott...
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Paul Pierce wanted to come home and play in LA this season

JamaalWilkes wrote:
Instead, we signed Swaggy P.

Pierce is taking a 2 year deal (with 1 year player option)with the Wizards at same price per year as Swaggy P.

Having LA native Pierce do the last year or two of his career in LA next to Kobe would have been cool. It also would have gotten under the skin of millions of Celtics fans.


Jamaal Wilkes called. He wants you to stop attaching his name to such silly posts
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:29 am    Post subject:

well, Pierce dreamed of being a Laker when he was a kid, but it was not meant to be
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:40 am    Post subject:

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Pierce didn't get to come home but he did go to a team on the rise, the Wizards.

I'm noticing players are taking more control of their futures. Many are signing two year contracts with the second year a player option. Deng, James, Pierce and other players of note are doing it.

If this trend continues it might become the norm for super stars.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:37 am    Post subject:

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Pierce didn't get to come home but he did go to a team on the rise, the Wizards.

I'm noticing players are taking more control of their futures. Many are signing two year contracts with the second year a player option. Deng, James, Pierce and other players of note are doing it.

If this trend continues it might become the norm for super stars.


Not really, the reason for 2 years is so they can re-up under an assumed higher salary cap. There's going to be a likely lockout in 2 yrs and a new CBA
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:47 pm    Post subject:

Ew to Pierce.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:20 pm    Post subject:

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jodeke wrote:
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Pierce didn't get to come home but he did go to a team on the rise, the Wizards.

I'm noticing players are taking more control of their futures. Many are signing two year contracts with the second year a player option. Deng, James, Pierce and other players of note are doing it.

If this trend continues it might become the norm for super stars.


Not really, the reason for 2 years is so they can re-up under an assumed higher salary cap. There's going to be a likely lockout in 2 yrs and a new CBA

You think the owners are going to lock players out and risk losing the advantage they now have with the current CBA? I don't think so.

Elite players have found a way to circumvent the advantage. Non elite players are still at the mercy of the owners.

I like the two year 2nd year player option. It gives the worker a level playing field.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:31 am    Post subject:

PASS on Pierce ...forever...
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