I can’t get used to losin’ you no matter what I try to do. Gonna live my whole life through, loving you. -Andy Williams
Public Service Announcement: OK, here we go! James Posey is a Hornet. I don’t like it. I don’t like it one bit. But I do get it.
Mo Vaughn once said, “It ain’t about the money.” The Hit Dog got it wrong. It’s always about the money. Always. The dough. The moolah. The Marvelous Moolah. The best things in life are free. But you can keep them for the birds and bees. Now, give me money. That’s what I want.
The Celtics want money. Due to future luxury-tax concerns, Danny Ainge and company did not want to offer Posey more than a two- or three-year deal starting at the league’s mid-level exception. It doesn’t matter how hard it is to find a guy who is the sixth man, coming off the bench, that has two rings, that doesn’t want to have to shoot the ball all of the time. It doesn’t matter how much Posey’s contributions meant to the Celtics. It just doesn’t matter.
Just like it didn’t matter how much Johnny Damon’s or Pedro’s contributions meant to the Red Sox. Money matters. That’s it. Business. Celtics management came to the conclusion that a four year deal just wouldn’t be fiscally responsible. Posey wanted four years. Posey got four years. Just not with the Celtics. Four years and twenty-five million. I don’t blame him. You gotta git while the gittins good. Like Chubb Rock always says, “I gotta get mine.”
Posey got his. Good for him. I wish him all the best. He’s a great role player. He’s a very very good defender. Great attitude. He can shoot too. He was an enormous part of this championship team. He’s also thirty-one years old. An eleven year veteran. Giving Posey four years could be a little precarious.
Say he contributes for a year or two, then begins to decline. Then what? He becomes untradeable. The Celtics become stuck with him. What would you expect to get in return for a 34-year-old or 35-year-old role player? Now listen, I love James Posey. I really do. I would have loved to seen back here to make another run at this thing. Jeff Van Gundy said “Give me James Posey!” Jeff Van Gundy didn’t say, “Give me James Posey for four years.” It always hurts when you lose a guts guy. When you lose a heart and soul guy. A guy who plays with the tenacity and enthusiasm to lift up a ball club. It does. I don’t like it, but I undertstand it.
Public Spectacle:
Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
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