Just an idle thought on a Friday morning ... with
Ainge on the hunt for a PG, and Kenny's contract up,
and nobody likely to offer him much more than the $1
million exemption (IMO), and with all this fond
back-when-we-had-Kenny nostalgia going about ("Kenny
with his slick dribbling used to defy pressure all by
himself last year," Pete just wrote), would it make
sense to bring him back?
The cons: He's not getting any younger. He's coming
off a lousy season where, surprisingly, he didn't take
advantage of a prime opportunity to shine in
Charlotte. For most of his Celtics career, except for
last season, people kept saying Boston needed a better
PG.
Those last 2 sentences seem contradictory - why are you surprised that he
didn't take advantage, when he's a long history of mostly underachieving.
Most of the nostalgia for him forgets that he performed well for about 10
games when he arrived here, a fair amount of last year, and not much of
what was in between. And that's the biggest con - which Kenny do you get.
He tends to sulk and if he feels underpaid because he couldn't get a decent
offer anywhere, that could well bring it out.