Welcome to relevance…

Ha! And I was wondering what was taking FLCeltsFan so long this morning!

Have some daily links!!! Is there a Cliff Notes version??? ;D

Thanks!

Look at all those links…

Celtic Basketball is back!!!!

that’s a lot of links
this is BIG

“The most important part of this trade is ARROGANCE”…Yup, Fire Joe Morgan (Daily Link 7/31) has hit the nail square on the head….teams won’t come here thinking it’s a slam-dunk…having KG is like Red Auerbach lighting a cigar and definantly blowing smoke in their face…..the ARROGANCE that comes with “knowing” that you’re a finally a winner and winning doesn’t mean losing (to improve lottery position)….

The “nervous” edge of visiting teams staring at the rafters has been recreated….

There are couple of side benefits to this trade. First, it totally hoses the Lakers. KG was the last really big name to come up for trade. The Lakers now have no real shot to put someone with Kobe who could win a title. Start the count down for Kobe to go Vince Carter and the Lakers to trade him for fifty cents on the dollar. It couldn’t happen to a better franchise. Second, the trade totally hoses Chicago. A year ago, if I had told you KG would be traded summer of 2007, everyone would have bet that he would be in Chicago. First, the Bulls fail to make a move for Gasol, now they don’t get Garnett. All they get next year, is a bunch of great perimeter players entering their prime but no one who can score down low and Ben Wallace making max money one year older and less effective. If I am a Bulls fan, I am livid right now. Lastly, it totally hoses the other members of the Atlantic. Crappy teams like New Jersey and Toronto could at least sell their fans on winning the division. No more. Say what you want about this lineup, they may not win number 17 or even go to finals, but they are going kill the other teams in the Atlantic. This is a great trade for those reasons if nothing else.

Hello national media! where you been?

Wouldn’t one feel a little silly posting on a “Fire Danny Ainge” or “can Danny” blog about now?

One other point to make about the trade; the Minnisota “first round pick” the Celtics are giving is not really a first rounder. It is conditional. The Wolves have to make the playoffs sometime between now and 2011 I think in order for the Celtics to claim a first rounder. If not, it was a second round pick. Given the competetivness of the West, and the liklyhood that Garnett was leaving the team, it is very unlikly that the Wolves make the playoffs in the next three years. So, chances are the Celtics really only gave up a first and a second round pick.

whats up with the comment too short business?

Toronto may still win the Atlantic. Their bench is VASTLY superior and their key players will be fresh for a late season run.

Put down the crack pipe Brick. That doesn’t even pass the giggle test. Their bench? Give me a break. The Raptors have no one the calibre of Boston’s big three. Yeah, I am really shaking in my boots over that Barginni Keven Garnett matchup. I am not sure KG can handle it. Toronto has no chance. None.

Brick, I don’t know if the Celtics will make it even to the finals, but they are going crush Toronto, not that that means much. You are going to get so much hell over your love of the Raptors. No one on this forum is going to let you forget it next season.

Dude, someone needs to clean the mice from the system.

I’ve been trying to post for the last 15 minutes a line from one of the articles FL put up (nice job FL) about the contract extension talks.

Its in the NY Times link titled “Garnett Appears Headed to Boston to Try for Title”

the line is near the bottom about a 1 yr extension.

I tried posting the line for about 20 minutes, and thats way too long to try to post a comment (aren’t comments ment to be short?)

If it is true, and its only a 1 year extension, I am totally against this trade.

2 yrs of KG does not equal 10 yrs of AJ.

What a column of articles FlCeltsfan! Great job! I hope the weight of so many links doesn’t crash the site and knock out all power on the Atlantic coast.

â€"Gant (only10things)

Having KG is like having Russ back. A VIOLENT presence in the paint, with Perk next to him?! I mean are you kidding me: drive into the paint??? I ain’t going in there!

We are going to CRUSH teams. Oh Man, if Tony and Rondo really come along its going to be crazy. Imagine the team d with these guys on the floor: Perk, KG, PP, Tony and Rondo. Fun stuff huh? Think they can’t score too?? Drive and rebound drive and rebound!

JohnK said:
  Brick, I don’t know if the Celtics will make it even to the finals, but they are going crush Toronto, not that that means much. You are going to get so much hell over your love of the Raptors. No one on this forum is going to let you forget it next season.

You mean the way the Timberwolves crushed teams last year? LOL. Let’s wait and see whether or not three stars and a bunch of nothing coached by a buffoon is better than real basketball teams.

Yeah,

Perhaps I missed Ray Allen and Paul Pierce playing for the Wolves last year. Also, maybe I have missed the NBA since I don’t know the start of the league where all of the titles went to teams of average players rather than the teams that had star players. Certainly, having star players didn’t do the Celtics any good back in the day or the Lakers or Bulls for that matter. What are you talking about? Are you crazy? The NBA is the most star diven professional league in any sport. It has been and always will be about star players. If you want to root for average players playing as a “team” go watch March madness. Admit it, you are just bitter because Ainge finally did something right and proved everyone wrong.

Jeff,
Here’s an angle of the KG trade you haven’t covered: How much more demanding FlCeltfan’s job just got. Lots more Celtics links now.

That Detroit News article is a joke. Yeah, we have PP, R Allen and KG and we won’t be able to beat the Cavs. Are they serious???

The Firedannyainge article is good evidence of how quickly and horribly facts can be twisted by a twisted mind. He has Doc Rivers saying racism kept KG away. Actually, Doc was responding to a Michael Wilbon article in which Wilbon made that claim. Doc was pretty much saying the reputation, while it lingers, is undeserved.

Brick is just upset because Danny didn’t dump Pierce and go young to build for the future. The only problem with that logic is why not let the future be now? Isn’t it better to definitely have a 3 to 4 year window now vs. maybe a 3 to 4 year window in maybe 3 to 4 years? You have to at least consider the possibility that Big Al had a fluke year on a bad team. He could easily regress, get injured, never learn defense, etc. As far as what happens at the end of our current window, we will cross that bridge when we come to it. Imagine a management that constantly and consistently mortgages the future in order to win now year after year. Isn’t a bird in hand still worth two in the bush?

Brick,
I say this with total respect for your basketball knowledge and opinion and as someone who thinks you add a lot to the community here: Please, please, please stop threatening to become a Raptors fans OR just do it.

Posting comments in every signle thread over and over and over about how you’re now a Raptors fan is draining. Yeah, we all know. You’re upset. But you’re crying wolf, brother. You obviously don’t have the stomach to give it up and move on to the Raptors blog. If you did, you would have done it by now.

So please make up your mind. Is you in, or is you out? If you’re in, then there’s no need for gimmicky threats to leave. You can continue to protest and voice dissent, but the cheap threat to go to Toronto are pointless and they invalidate some of your valid arguments.