Celtics Off-Season Full of Sparklers
To this point, the off-season for the Boston Celtics has not been as good as you might think.
Sure, adding Al Horford who is the biggest free agent signing in team history is great, and adding the third overall pick in this years draft (Jaylen Brown) to an already young nucleus is great too. The only problem is that both are secondary moves, the primary move hasn’t happened.
The Celtics desperately needed and still need a super star player to come in and lead the team to the top of the Eastern Conference. Somehow, the great Tom Brady was unable to nail one down for the Celtics. If Brady can’t get it done then it might time to realize that Danny Ainge wont be able to do it either.
Making trades in the NBA is a tough thing to do, as told to Celtics fans many times by Ainge and ownership. It becomes a lot harder when the entire world knows what you have to deal and what you desperately want and need. Gathering a ton of draft pick assets is not a bad thing at all but when they don’t have any value until the ping pong balls stop bouncing around, it makes them tough to deal.
For years now the Celtics not be able to move upcoming draft picks due to not knowing where the picks will fall. Picks 3-6 are not good enough alone to land a star like the first two picks are. Somehow Celtics fans convince themselves that the next draft will be different, over and over.
Rumors are flying around like crazy and the Celtics are once again linked to them all, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love, DeMarcus Cousins, you name the player and there is story about how the Celtics can get them. We have been down this road before, the draft picks don’t translate to big trade assets like they should. The draft is a lottery so its hard to blame another team for not wanting to take a chance 10 months before they know what pick they are getting.
Don’t get sucked into thinking that the Celtics are on the cusp of landing a major star to shake up the league, and please don’t get sucked into thinking that this upcoming draft is the best ever, when every year the draft becomes about having the first or second pick.
If there is a deal out there that involves moving any or all future first round picks for a top 10 player in the league, the Celtics have to do it. Ainge might not get another shot at fireworks.
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