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nuts4xu
09-08-2019, 11:42 AM
“The Celtics agreed to a partially guaranteed contract with forward Kaiser Gates, a league source confirmed Thursday.”

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2019/09/06/celtics-add-former-xavier-standout-kaiser-gates
paulxu
09-08-2019, 11:58 AM
Hope he can stick. Tough competition.

Wonder what "partially guaranteed" is? Sort of like "semi boneless?"
Roadlife
09-08-2019, 04:32 PM
Hope he can stick. Tough competition.

Wonder what "partially guaranteed" is? Sort of like "semi boneless?"

It means he gets the cash even if he makes the roster or not.
Xample? https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/shockwaves/article89131602.html
Backyard Champ
09-08-2019, 10:48 PM
100 percent made the best decision for himself when he left. Hope he can get a roster spot. Still great to have guaranteed money,
whopper
09-09-2019, 07:50 AM
We all loved that team so much. It is interesting to see how damn hard it is to make the NBA and maybe we will see Tre on Jazz, JP on Cars, Kaiser on Celts this year but I have a feeling that at best they will be up and down from G league. Some thought Kaiser was best NBA prospect at the time. Cant wait for start of season and a friend from NJ just sent me a Bergen Catholic backpack (he is an alumni and contributed) as he saw Freemantle quite a bit.
Cincypunk.org
09-09-2019, 09:05 AM
"The 6-foot-8-inch former Xavier standout"

Hmmm....
muskienick
09-09-2019, 05:12 PM
"The 6-foot-8-inch former Xavier standout"

Hmmm....

Well, at 6' 8or9" he did stand out in any crowd on the Xavier campus!
mid major
09-09-2019, 06:41 PM
100 percent made the best decision for himself when he left. Hope he can get a roster spot. Still great to have guaranteed money,

I'm not sure I agree with you here. Honestly if he was going to go early the time to do it was after his sophomore year.
scoscox
09-09-2019, 08:25 PM
It's impossible to know. He very well could've stayed and starred on last year's team, led us to a couple wins in the tournament and not had to have struggled as hard as he has to make a roster.
Lloyd Braun
09-09-2019, 10:13 PM
It's impossible to know. He very well could've stayed and starred on last year's team, led us to a couple wins in the tournament and not had to have struggled as hard as he has to make a roster.

This assumes he improves at X at the same rate as he improved in the G-league, which is almost never the case. I would agree that he probably left a year too late than a year too early.
Muskie
10-15-2019, 11:32 AM
I see that Tacko made the Celtics Squad on a two-way contract. I assume that means Kaiser did not.