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Celtics Involved…Talks Dwindling?

by Tommy Dee on February 12th, 2010 at 10:07 am

Via Woj-

“…In a dramatic move that would resuscitate their fading championship hopes, the Boston Celtics are discussing a deal with the Washington Wizards for forwards Antawn Jamison(notes) and Caron Butler(notes), league sources told Yahoo! Sports on Friday.

The proposed deal would send the expiring contracts of Ray Allen(notes), Brian Scalabrine(notes) and J.R. Giddens(notes) to the Wizards, a move that would signal the start of Washington’s rebuilding process.

Washington has offered Butler and DeShawn Stevenson(notes) for the Mavericks’ Josh Howard(notes) and a small expiring contract….

…Washington is still part of a lingering, but stalled three-team discussion with New York and Houston that would send Tracy McGrady(notes) to the Knicks, Al Harrington(notes) and Larry Hughes(notes) to the Wizards and Caron Butler and possibly Mike Miller(notes) to the Houston Rockets…”

You can sense Boston’s desperation and bringing in Jamison, whom Lebron apparently covets, would be a major play. To me, this is where the deadline gets crazy, it’s the arms race. That leaves teams like the Knicks on the outside looking in, since Houston will only deal McGrady if they drastically improve.

Should be a crazy weekend in Dallas with all the chatter. Anyone want to strike up a collection so SNY can send me?