Sam Presti was offered Jeff Green and Rajon Rondo for Kendrick Perkins and Russell Westbrook?
Via NESN.com:
Chris Broussard tweeted an interesting failed trade proposal that Celtics president Danny Ainge reportedly offered the Oklahoma City Thunder after last season.
According to Broussard, the C's offered the Thunder point guard Rajon Rondo and forward Jeff Green in exchange for point guard Russell Westbrook and center Kendrick Perkins.
MISTAKE ALERT!
Is there doubt in the minds of anyone that Boston knows it made a mistake with this deal? The pieces were valued correctly, and it might have been the right thing to do for a team overloaded with centers. But the Celtics are a team that desperately needs/needed a solid option at center, and relying on the O'Neals or a defensive softie like Krstic isn't the way to go. Now they've got Jeff Green lost in the rotation behind Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, they lost one of the best backup guards in the league in Nate Robinson, and they just let Nenad Krstic float over to CSKA Moscow.
Fortunately, the NBA allows teams to say "no backsies", and the trade offer was rejected. Oklahoma City and Presti would have to be insane to take that offer, which would pretty much solidify us as either a small team or a team with Nazr Mohammed starting at center. Either way, we would have a myriad of roster problems, plus we would lose a great amount of scoring from Westbrook. Essentially, we'd be a great defensive team that can't defend the paint, and a team that has the leagues best scorer but with no one to help him.
If I knew this before Thanksgiving, I'd be thankful for the fact that our General Manager knows what he's doing.
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Hmm...
I would be interested if they took off Perk. But, not going to happen anyways.
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IF they took off Perk, that'd make for one crazy packed roster
Heck, we might even put Durant back at SG and go Carlesimo-style.
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Hopefully this puts to rest...
…The naysayers who thought OKC made a terrible mistake by shipping Green to Boston. I hate to pick on anyone for having a basic opinion on something (even if I think it’s wrong), but the idea that OKC was somehow worse off after trading Green and Krstic simply befuddles me.
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trading Russell Westbrook To Celtics
I WOULD NOT TRADE RUSSELL WESTBROOK FOR ANYONE ON THE CELTICS ROSTER!
by doecolumbus on Nov 30, 2011 8:44 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
I've made my return from basketball and sports blog hibernation to say...
Props for usage of the term, “no backsies”
it's a highly technical term
you can probably find it in Larry Coon’s CBA FAQ tome in the appendices.
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by J.A. Sherman on Nov 30, 2011 9:40 AM CST up reply actions
I would trade The Honey Badger for only 1 man
KEVIN DURANT fortunately there will never be a need to make that trade
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