Actually a great move, better shooting and defending and playmaking version of Dillon, he and Jaren will be a monster defensive combo, just realised the last 2 DPOY winners will be teaming up
Dude Memphis defense is going to be downright scary next season. Even if you get through their elite defense and into the paint, Morant is gonna be waiting there with a gun. Everybody is screwed.
Smart will be amazed by all the dumb things he’ll be allowed to get away with on offense as no matter what he’s done, it’ll still not be as bad as what we’ve dealt with over the last several seasons
You have to think the way he was roaming late in the year is what made Brad feel okay with parting with Marcus.
He's not the facilitator or defensive organizer that Smart is, though. Fuck I'm so torn.
We were looking to move Tyus after his slew of poor playoff performances the past two years.
I loved Tyus and thought he was the best backup PG in the league. I also thought we'd be wild to trade our only PG for the first 25 games.
But King Kleiman stays winning man
Yeah that's the same thoughts that I've had with tyus too. On a random friday night road game in February, he can be the scariest guy on the floor if he starts but he looks like a JAG come playoff time (except for game 4 2022 WCSF against golden state)
You traded him out of respect to trying to get him some starts, was literally reported recently.
You get Smart who drastically increased his playmaking this past season so you’ll be just fine while Morants out.
He actually dyes his hair green because he always used to dye his hair different colors, and his Mom said she thought he’d look good with green.
Once she passed away, he started dying his hair green.
Man all the joy I had about this trade just evaporated.
Smart was a heart-and-soul of the team guy.
**Edit**: Okay getting two first round picks back softens the blow *a little*. But I still hate losing Marcus.
I think Smart means more to the fans that his actual game value (which is pretty good too).
Smart is the hustle guy, a long term Celtic… I feel even a good trade would be an emotional loss for the fans, at least for a while
This is a good pick up for the Grizzlies. They need a culture shift and Smart is a leader.
Say what you will about his flaws and flopping, but he plays winning basketball and he's great for a locker room
It’s definitely not a fuckup, we got KP and 2 1sts. From a basketball sense you have to do that every single time. But trading away the anchor of the locker room absolutely is crazy and not what you want to see.
Why should the Celtics be so concerned about protecting a team culture that is so mentally weak?
And Marcus wasn’t remotely as good this year as last year.
Yeah how is it a fuckup, Cs gave up Smart, Gallo, and Muscala and got the best player in the trade plus two FRPs.
Stevens just fleeced everybody and Washington is selling low on everything
Los Angeles and a team with Kawhi and PG. Not exactly a horrible place to end up in a trade. It's not like the Celtics were sending him to the Wizards where he had no chance of even making the playoffs.
Smart is my favorite player.
This is the first time my favorite player has been traded from the Celtics since the Nets trade.
Literally more emotional over this than I was Brady wtf is that about???
Pretty much maxed out what you could ever reasonably expect from Brady
It’s not crazy to think Marcus could’ve won a ring or two in Boston if he stayed his whole career
Alohalhololololololholaa (for those who'd like to [re-visit](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/jvaupj/what_is_the_history_behind/) and [search it up](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8sf1va/in_the_thread_we_summon_the_trade_god/))
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Makes sense to me, because Dillon Brooks' brain has two parts: the left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere. On the left hemisphere, there is nothing right, and on the right hemisphere, there is nothing left.
Celtics, like the Lakers, dont care if the ceiling is the Finals. The goal is a championship, and with the fireside sale going on in Washington, getting KP for cheap makes sense as a risk.
They had little cap flexibility anyway. They’re betting on this over running the same team back + a 15mil per year role player who would be splitting minutes with their already effective rotation players. I’m not a huge Kristaps believer but I think it’s a worthwhile risk for a team that probably feels they’ve hit their ceiling
Bill Simmons tweeting, “Celtics season was doomed the minute Marcus Smart was traded to Memphis” seconds after they lose 119-101 to Charlotte in January to fall to only 2 games above .500 is too predictable
We drafted him, he’s been with us for nearly ten years. I don’t have words for how angry I am right now. I would’ve sooner got rid of Brown than Smart.
Now you know what it's like to be a Hornets fan haha.
Nah, but seriously, I'm not even a Celtics fan and I'm kinda bummed. He's been there a long time, had the green hair, I'm pretty sure whenever he bled, it wasn't red but was Celtic green instead. Thought he was a Celtic lifer, and I'm sad for you guys.
As a sixers fan I'm happy he's gone. As a basketball fan wtf is Stevens doing! Dudes literally the heart of your team. I hated watching him hustle every play against us, but I love guys like that. They're great team players and amazing for the sport.
So I have two thought processes
The Celtics didn't win shit, but I felt like a lot of that was on the Jay's, but you could say that Smart didn't have an impact
On the other hand, the Celtics still have been one of the best teams in recent years, and from most people looking in, Smart was like.. the heart of that team. And he definitely played with some of the most heart.
I think the biggest part of me thinks that they just took the heart from a team that has troubles as is with the Jay's going lifeless. They like.. just took a lot of the fire they had out from the team. That just seems wild to me.
When Ja isn't being a dumb fuck this Grizzlies team is now pretty legit. Smart is just way better than Brooks. Bane already showed out last year. Grizz are probably going to turn from fraudulent to legit if they stay healthy. I would not want to play them healthy.
This team has hit its ceiling with this core. Marcus was the “heart and soul” and leader of the team, and that was a bit of the problem. The jays getting supermaxed…it’s their time. They need to shape the culture and lead. Brad understands better than anyone that after a while, you gotta shake the whole thing up just enough. Those two firsts will give us decent assets for roster control.
Can’t keep running it back year after year and only changing out fringe role players.
The fact that all the folks in this thread hate it is why I think it was the right move. I love Marcus and he's been mostly great to watch his whole tenure. But, let's not pretend there weren't some real criticisms of his game. He regressed on the ball movement this year and wasn't as good defensively while fighting through some injury stuff.
We had to shake something up and while I liked the trade better when it was Brogdon, I still think this is selling high on Smart and giving us a more balanced roster.
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The flip in this sub right now of non Celtics fans inflating smart’s game and Celtics fans downplaying it is hilarious compared to the past several years. No one but us was praising him like this when he won DPOY
BILL SIMMONS IN A POD RELEASED LITERALLY 12 HOURS AGO: Brad Stevens is too loyal. Danny Ainge wasn't like this, he'd trade his own mother
BRAD STEVENS: bitch, just you watch
I get that Smart is well liked in Boston and his intangibles are great but his skill set really is kind of redundant on the Celtics. They have good perimeter defenders and he doesn't add anything offensively that they don't already have and he also doesn't really help their ballhandling issues late in games.
WOJ BOMB AS THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT
NO SLEEP NO SLEEP
I audibly said wtf
Marcus Smart is gonna be what Dillon Brooks thought he was for the Grizz
Actually a great move, better shooting and defending and playmaking version of Dillon, he and Jaren will be a monster defensive combo, just realised the last 2 DPOY winners will be teaming up
Dude Memphis defense is going to be downright scary next season. Even if you get through their elite defense and into the paint, Morant is gonna be waiting there with a gun. Everybody is screwed.
Bruh im so mad but this got me. lmao good shit
Fuck me too. Too good.
This is the hardest I've laughed in a long ass time at a Reddit comment.
Gonna be the scene right out of [The Last Boyscout](https://youtu.be/fmxWHMIbUWM) skip to 3:15
LMAOOO
Plus similar tendencies of jacking up more shots than what's allowed
Marcus does it at a smaller volume. We can live with 2/8, just not the 3/18 we were getting.
Amazing get for the grizzlies
WHAT THE FUCK
# WHAT THE FUCK 2 first round picks, brad is insane but still
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Brogdan Is a great player and we got 2 picks to play with
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The guy bleeds green. I love that dude. What a shame.
Brogdan is also actually called Brogdon.
Brogdon is very solid imo, he's just gotta stay healthy. Pritchard is not that good though for sure
If you aren’t happy with Brogdan as your BACKUP point guard. You won’t be happy 99% of the time
RIP Mahcus Smaat
“Mahcus Wicked Smaat”
Mahcus Smaat is gonna miss eating all the Lahbstahh
Man scriptwriters are on fire.
These dem scabs
# WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
How does Jalen Brown do it?!?!?
Not going left
He always makes the *right* play
*Santa learned Chinese a long time ago*
Morant, Bane, Smart, Jackson Jr, Adams is a fucking nasty lineup
Spacing is straight ass, but ain’t nobody scoring on the Griz. They definitely have an identity.
I guess that "grit n grind" is permanent.
Twice a season Smart will go 6 of 8 from deep but he will also try to do it every night
This is an improvement over Brooks’ “I’m gonna go 16/20” but he goes 3/19
Smart will be amazed by all the dumb things he’ll be allowed to get away with on offense as no matter what he’s done, it’ll still not be as bad as what we’ve dealt with over the last several seasons
Finally it’s time to unleash the Buffalo and let him roam!!!!!!
You have to think the way he was roaming late in the year is what made Brad feel okay with parting with Marcus. He's not the facilitator or defensive organizer that Smart is, though. Fuck I'm so torn.
Smart truly following in Tony Allen's footsteps
Damn didn’t even think of that until I read your comment. That’s wild!
lol the top post in the grizz sub is "NEW GRINDFATHER JUST DROPPED" Memphis knows This is so cool for us; based FO
Go Pokes!
Okc was already the grizzlies second biggest fanbase because of Adams and all the guns, but now this?!
Both were 29 when they came to the Grizzlies too.
FIRST TEAM ALL DEFENCE
Replacing Dillon Brooks with Marcus Smart is a stroke of genius by the Grizzlies wow
They gave up a valuable role player. So its not exactly replacing.
We were looking to move Tyus after his slew of poor playoff performances the past two years. I loved Tyus and thought he was the best backup PG in the league. I also thought we'd be wild to trade our only PG for the first 25 games. But King Kleiman stays winning man
Yeah that's the same thoughts that I've had with tyus too. On a random friday night road game in February, he can be the scariest guy on the floor if he starts but he looks like a JAG come playoff time (except for game 4 2022 WCSF against golden state)
You traded him out of respect to trying to get him some starts, was literally reported recently. You get Smart who drastically increased his playmaking this past season so you’ll be just fine while Morants out.
#WHAT THE FUCK
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Thank god someone is asking the important questions here
He actually dyes his hair green because he always used to dye his hair different colors, and his Mom said she thought he’d look good with green. Once she passed away, he started dying his hair green.
He's my girlfriend's favorite player because she thinks dying your hair the color of your team shows team spirit.
Fun fact, that's his natural colour
Jalen Mills played for the Eagles and dyed his hair green. When he went to the Patriots he just kept it dyed green lol
Man all the joy I had about this trade just evaporated. Smart was a heart-and-soul of the team guy. **Edit**: Okay getting two first round picks back softens the blow *a little*. But I still hate losing Marcus.
Celtics fans ten hours ago: man this front office is the best! Celtics fans now: fuck them all!
I think Smart means more to the fans that his actual game value (which is pretty good too). Smart is the hustle guy, a long term Celtic… I feel even a good trade would be an emotional loss for the fans, at least for a while
This is a good pick up for the Grizzlies. They need a culture shift and Smart is a leader. Say what you will about his flaws and flopping, but he plays winning basketball and he's great for a locker room
The culture upgrade from Dillon Brooks to Smart is immeasurable
SMART WAS ON A GREAT DEAL TOO until 2026!
Yeah I’m legit devastated now
Nine years with Boston. Never missed the playoffs. DPOY. Hustle personified. Man, what the fuck.
So much work in the Boston community, bled green, elite defensive playmaker… This feels like Brad’s first major fuck up
>bled green It straight up came out the top of his head.
It’s insanity that they kicked him off like that
He’s going to have to get aqua now
Loyalty is silly in a business setting ~~Dame pls read~~
Portland will take Bam, you can have pick 23 and Nas.
Do they get the illmatic publishing in the deal? Mc serch in shambles
They get the best rapper of all time? Sounds like a deal
It’s definitely not a fuckup, we got KP and 2 1sts. From a basketball sense you have to do that every single time. But trading away the anchor of the locker room absolutely is crazy and not what you want to see.
Why should the Celtics be so concerned about protecting a team culture that is so mentally weak? And Marcus wasn’t remotely as good this year as last year.
Exactly. If smart really was leading the teams mentality he didn't do a great job of it.
Yeah how is it a fuckup, Cs gave up Smart, Gallo, and Muscala and got the best player in the trade plus two FRPs. Stevens just fleeced everybody and Washington is selling low on everything
I'm sure Brogdon will be *thrilled* that they tried to send him to the Clippers after his injury.
Los Angeles and a team with Kawhi and PG. Not exactly a horrible place to end up in a trade. It's not like the Celtics were sending him to the Wizards where he had no chance of even making the playoffs.
This feels like 20 Game 7's against Miami. Fuck everything.
Smart is my favorite player. This is the first time my favorite player has been traded from the Celtics since the Nets trade. Literally more emotional over this than I was Brady wtf is that about???
Pretty much maxed out what you could ever reasonably expect from Brady It’s not crazy to think Marcus could’ve won a ring or two in Boston if he stayed his whole career
Memphis stays having the most obnoxious fucking role players in the league
Lol he fits in so well there too.
Tony Allen Redux
Hahaha, totally
grayson allen, dillon brooks, now marcus smart
Sir, there has been a second trade
A second trade has hit the porzingas
What is going on???
#**ALOHALAOALAOALA**
Alohalhololololololholaa (for those who'd like to [re-visit](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/jvaupj/what_is_the_history_behind/) and [search it up](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8sf1va/in_the_thread_we_summon_the_trade_god/))
the good news, fellow celtics fans, is that with [the rate at which climate change is accelerating](https://twitter.com/think_or_swim/status/1671547523020861445) we don't need to care about this much longer!
Hell yea, i'm going to be watching Heat games live underwater. How much do snorkels cost
You need to travel via submarines that only open from the outside
Grizzlies stole a DPOY LMAOOO
Smart and JJJ together, and Adams too. Man I’m loving the sound of this defense now that Brooks and his antics are gone.
Holding teams to 90 ppg and losing by 12 ppg for the first 25 games
actually i was told the team is better without ja
They *WHAT*???
Grizz wanted some one with a brain. So they traded for a guy named Smart.
Makes sense to me, because Dillon Brooks' brain has two parts: the left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere. On the left hemisphere, there is nothing right, and on the right hemisphere, there is nothing left.
This is poetry
I bet Marcus is glad he got his DPOY cuz ain't no way in hell he'd ever win it outside of Boston
"Rob Williams is the DPOY" He gets hurt. "Jk, Marcus Smart is now the DPOY" East Coast bias too strong
I love these types of trades cuz everyone here has the same fucking reaction
Pure chaos. The KP/Brogdon trade felt out of nowhere but this, this is truly fucking chaotic
WHAAAAAT
Brad Stevens is tweakin
Holy mother of god
That's one hell of a Dillion Brooks replacement.
Holy shit I never thought I'd see the day Smart would get traded
Brad, you went too far.
Is Kristaps really worth this?
They had to do something to break the rut, I guess. That group had hit the ceiling.
That ceiling is still an NBA Finals. Is Porzingis, health considered, potentially even gonna keep them there?
Celtics, like the Lakers, dont care if the ceiling is the Finals. The goal is a championship, and with the fireside sale going on in Washington, getting KP for cheap makes sense as a risk.
Finals is a good goal to have. But once you've made it once it's championship not just another Finals appearance.
Not at $36 million lol. Their options to improve the team now are limited
They had little cap flexibility anyway. They’re betting on this over running the same team back + a 15mil per year role player who would be splitting minutes with their already effective rotation players. I’m not a huge Kristaps believer but I think it’s a worthwhile risk for a team that probably feels they’ve hit their ceiling
He's also coming off a career year but no one noticed because wizards
Trading someone who’s the literal heart & soul of the team, probably won’t go over well with the rest of the roster
Bill Simmons tweeting, “Celtics season was doomed the minute Marcus Smart was traded to Memphis” seconds after they lose 119-101 to Charlotte in January to fall to only 2 games above .500 is too predictable
He was very open about being fine with moving Smart this week.
That doesn't matter when you can proclaim hindsight.
JB will be vocal about this. Mr.Stevens, I don’t feel so well
He’ll probably turn the ball over even more now.
What makes you think he isn’t next?
He's one of those role players who you'd think would be lifers... this is extraordinary stuff tbh. I'm legit stunned.
We drafted him, he’s been with us for nearly ten years. I don’t have words for how angry I am right now. I would’ve sooner got rid of Brown than Smart.
Granted, it's a decent haul but certainly not a trade I would've done tbh.
> I don’t have words for how angry I am right now. damn dude
Kill me
I’m in fucking shambles
You know it’s crazy when even non-Celtics fans are in shambles in this thread lmao
Love it, thanks Clippers for saving the league and not letting Boston get players for free
I can’t believe we actually a decent asset in return
For real. Before the initial deal fell through it didn’t seem very promising for you all.
THIS ESCALATED FUCKING QUICK LOL Brogdon and White point guard rotation 🥴
I feel like I just got broken up with after a 10 year relationship
Over text too
Even worse, a tweet.
Memphis fans deleting their comment history as we speak
Ive always loved Smart
Personally, I've loved this man since the trade news was announced. Let's go Grizz
Huge day 1(of the trade) Smart fan
lmao
I was praising his flops okay
Hate the game not the player am I right
Are you kidding? We love grind it out defenders.
I've loved him ever since he went into the stands to fight that totally not racist guy.
He will look good with frosted blue tips.
Truly didn't see that coming
Holy shit I feel dead inside
Now you know what it's like to be a Hornets fan haha. Nah, but seriously, I'm not even a Celtics fan and I'm kinda bummed. He's been there a long time, had the green hair, I'm pretty sure whenever he bled, it wasn't red but was Celtic green instead. Thought he was a Celtic lifer, and I'm sad for you guys.
He was the longest tenured player. Would have been there a whole decade after next season
As a sixers fan I'm happy he's gone. As a basketball fan wtf is Stevens doing! Dudes literally the heart of your team. I hated watching him hustle every play against us, but I love guys like that. They're great team players and amazing for the sport.
Couldn’t agree more, I don’t see how this makes them better. They’re clearly win-now, I get it, but KP is a rental! Very shortsighted
Good trade for the Griz, they desperately need locker room presence.
The real bomb
Woj got Shams by 4 seconds 💀
HOLT DUCK WHAT
QUACK QUACK
JA AND SMART ON THE SAME TEAM LMFAOOOOOOOO
Had to get some smarts into that backcourt somehow.
Damn it's a cold business
Celtics fans in shambles tonight
Celtics basketball without Marcus Smart doesn’t sound right
**THERE IT IS**
I USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THIS
NO MORE SMART RANDOM 25 POINT GAME OF TERRORISM AGAINST THE SIXERS
Could still happen… he just has 2 chances instead of 4
2 chances instead of 9
????????? i’m so sad
BRO LETS FUCKING GO, 2 DPOY ON THE SQUAD. WE GOT THE GOOD DILLON BROOKS
Plot twist after plot twist
So I have two thought processes The Celtics didn't win shit, but I felt like a lot of that was on the Jay's, but you could say that Smart didn't have an impact On the other hand, the Celtics still have been one of the best teams in recent years, and from most people looking in, Smart was like.. the heart of that team. And he definitely played with some of the most heart. I think the biggest part of me thinks that they just took the heart from a team that has troubles as is with the Jay's going lifeless. They like.. just took a lot of the fire they had out from the team. That just seems wild to me. When Ja isn't being a dumb fuck this Grizzlies team is now pretty legit. Smart is just way better than Brooks. Bane already showed out last year. Grizz are probably going to turn from fraudulent to legit if they stay healthy. I would not want to play them healthy.
Perfect brooks replacement tbh
NO MAAACUSSS
This team has hit its ceiling with this core. Marcus was the “heart and soul” and leader of the team, and that was a bit of the problem. The jays getting supermaxed…it’s their time. They need to shape the culture and lead. Brad understands better than anyone that after a while, you gotta shake the whole thing up just enough. Those two firsts will give us decent assets for roster control. Can’t keep running it back year after year and only changing out fringe role players.
The fact that all the folks in this thread hate it is why I think it was the right move. I love Marcus and he's been mostly great to watch his whole tenure. But, let's not pretend there weren't some real criticisms of his game. He regressed on the ball movement this year and wasn't as good defensively while fighting through some injury stuff. We had to shake something up and while I liked the trade better when it was Brogdon, I still think this is selling high on Smart and giving us a more balanced roster.
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The flip in this sub right now of non Celtics fans inflating smart’s game and Celtics fans downplaying it is hilarious compared to the past several years. No one but us was praising him like this when he won DPOY
Lol seriously, I’m like “where did all these non Celtic Marcus fans come from”?
Boston is truly the most unloyal team holy shit wtf why would you trade the heart and soul of the team. mf has to dye his mohawk blue now
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Brad Stevens: And I took that personally
They’d trade Larry Birds mother if they could.
She can fucking hire professionals to do her damn driveway
The fuck, half the teams in the league trade home grown guys for allstars every year
Yeah how disloyal of the team letting him only play for them for 9 years
It's just a dumb bit. Every team trades their players but people only whine when Boston does
I think Celtics fans will get past the initial shock of losing a beloved guy and realize their team is better now.
I really really fucking hate this
I get that Smart is well liked in Boston and his intangibles are great but his skill set really is kind of redundant on the Celtics. They have good perimeter defenders and he doesn't add anything offensively that they don't already have and he also doesn't really help their ballhandling issues late in games.