“[We] refuse to get ripped off by anybody,” Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck told Kyle Draper, Brian Scalabrine and A. Sherrod Blakely on CSN’s Celtics Draft Central moments after the team had selected Brown.
“[The] trades that were offered to us . . . we’d hang up the phone and kind of chuckle,” he said. “Because it wasn’t even close. It wasn’t even close. People [were] trying to rip us off because they think we’re in a hurry (to make the Celtics a championship-caliber team), and we’re not going to be ripped off. We’re going to build this team year-by-year if we have to build it year-by-year.”
Hmm… who should I believe? The Celtics owner who is trying to save face with his disgruntled fan base or the well-respected, veteran reporters who claimed negotiations were fluid?
What’s the point of accumulating so many damn assets if you aren’t going to use them? It’s okay to overpay!!
Wait til draft night. Wait til free agency. Wait til the trade deadline. Wait til I’m dead. Rinse. Repeat.
— Chuck M. (@RedsArmy_Chuck) June 24, 2016
