KG heading to Bean Town

and they didn't have to send Pierce or Allen. Jefferson, Gerald Green, Telfair heading to Minnesota. All of a sudden the Cletics are very respectable...... in the east

 

hell, the C's are now a contender in the East. if Lebron can get to the finals with a bunch of scrubs, then the Celtics should be in good shape. KG, Pierce and Ray Allen. granted it's a small window as those guys are all 30+.

 

Smells like a panic move. The Celtics are selling out their future for one or two good shots at a Finals that they won't win anyway. I don't know whether or not Green will develop anything, but Jefferson is a big piece to give up. I think Minnesota did quite well.

 

Minnesota should have dealt KG a couple of years ago. dude has made about 186,000,000 in salary alone. He's held them hostage cap-wise for a decade.

 

It's either a panic move or striking while the iron is hot - right now the contenders in the east are:

Cavs: LeBron and NOBODY else
Pistons: Getting old
Heat: Already really old
Bulls: Young and exciting but absolutely no low post scoring.

And I wouldn't really say that they don't have a chance to win the Finals. Garnett, Pierce and Allen are as good a threesome as anyone else can put together in the league.

 

Boston might as well go for it. Bringing in Shaq worked for Miami even though he was "old". I for one would like to see KG play on a team with some talent around him before he gets too old and beat down.

 

The East is terrible, sure, but you're almost guaranteeing that you'll be absolutely horrible 3-4 years from now in exchange for some potential Finals appearances that you're very unlikely to win. Personally I would have dealt Pierce rather than acquire Ray Allen, and then have a team that could be on the verge of something big in a couple of years when the West's stars are finally coming down.

Maybe. Garnett is a legitimate superstar, albeit one with very little tread left on his tires (the career path for NBA players after 1000 games is very ugly, and KG is at 927). My problems are with Ray Allen and Paul Pierce. Allen has been good, but Seattle's style inflated his production and I think he looks like a guy who could fall off at any moment. To me, he's not that far removed from a guy who just sits on the wing and shoots jumpers. That's still useful, but it's not any kind of dominating force. Meanwhile Pierce is an immensely gifted player, but just seems to lack the drive to be a dominator.

I guess Ainge feels like he had to take a shot, and obviously you're better off taking your chances getting through the East and then a 7 game series against the West's best than trying to battle your way through the West gauntlet. But while my basketball knowledge is limited, I just don't see how two perimeter players like Pierce and Allen are going to complement each other well. The Celtics will need Rondo to become a legitimate penetrating scorer like Tony Parker to collapse defenses for those two, and they still don't have anyone to help KG inside.

That's a fair point, but Miami didn't give up nearly as much for Shaq as Boston did for KG. I don't know if Green will pan out, but Jefferson looks like a future star and they also included two future first round picks.

 

I would say KG has lots of tread on the tires, granted they are expensive tires, but hes not broke down. he always been thin so his weight doesnt hinder him ala Shaq or other big men as they get older. I think KG will play until his late 30's.

 

I just think it will be cool to see KG change teams and have some talent around him. I do not see Boston as a great team now but they will be a lot more interesting. Long term it may not be great for them but who knows if a long term plan is going to work. If they get two or three good years out of this then I would consider it a success.

If the Bobcats get to play them in the playoffs they might match up pretty well with them. Wallace and Richardson vs Pierce and Allen should be good and Okafor's defense would be huge against KG.

 

It's possible, but after this season KG will rank in the top 75 of all-time in terms of NBA games played. Or to look at it another way, he's only two seasons worth of games behind Robert Horry.