Who Cares If Pierce Was Offered For The First Pick

[mark at 10thumbs.org]

amusing responses y'all... but i hope no one on this list thinks that POR
was ever trading the #1 pick...

Danny could have offered Pierce, Jefferson, Rondo and 3#1 picks... Oden
was going to POR.

i'm bummed so many are down on Ainge, but can see (even if i don't totally
agree) why.

(the other) Mark

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No, he would have traded it for a 31-year-old combo guard coming off
knee surgery.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
Behalf Of ryanmnelson at verizon.net
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:09 AM
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
Subject: Re: Re: Who Cares If Pierce Was Offered For The First Pick

actually, ainge probably would have acquired the #1 pick and then traded
it down for 4 picks in the 20s to draft "value."

rmn


>From: Steve Ouellette <bosox18 at charter.net>
>Date: 2007/07/03 Tue AM 08:06:23 CDT
>To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List <celtics at igtc.com>
>Subject: Re: Who Cares If Pierce Was Offered For The First Pick

>And then Ainge would have been ripped to shreds by everyone --
including
>Ray -- for giving up too much.
>
>Steve O
>
>Way Of The Ray wrote:
>> Even if Devastating Danny Ainge offered Pierce
>> and the fifth pick to Portland for the Number
>> One Pick and next year's first, who cares?
>>
>> It was the usual Wyc-Ainge half-assed effort,
>> that was doomed to failure from the start.
>>
>> If you are trying to overwhelm the Blazers into
>> giving up the most valuable draft choice
>> to come down the pike since the Cavs drafted Lebron,
>> you don't ask for their future first round choice.
>>
>> And further more, if you are trying to acquire Durant
>> or Oden, you have to knock that team for a loop with a
>> trade package so audacious, that they simply can't
>> refuse.
>>
>> Pierce, Jefferson, and the fifth pick should have
>> been Ainge's offer and then rebuild the Celtics around
>> Oden or Durant.
>>
>> Ray