What to do with TA & Scal...

The JAZZ don’t want him because he’s to short. The Jazz gets misused whenever they play a good team in the playoffs He’s great over the season but come playoff time he’s a liability. Plus he wants stater money but he can only come off the bench.

Buy one get one half off sale?

Allen:
for any beefy, lengthy, strong small forward who can defend opposing strong small forwards like Lebron.
He does not have to be able to score a lick, but just be able to help slow down aLebron for instance if he gets on a roll in the playoffs.
We need a big body like that on the bench.
Maybe Walker can be such a man but to be safe trading Allen for such a player would be a wise move and should not be hard to dop.

We should trade Scal, for a legit back up center.
If Rasheed or Perk get hurt we will not have a legit center on the bench.
Its vital that we get a backup on the bench (especially since Baby and Williams are not legit centers) because we need that big man insurance.

I just created an account so I could comment on your posting. The way that you articulated a realistic trade really caught me off guard, especially in contrast to the comments I just finished reading regarding Marbury’s less-than-choice remarks about Pierce. You didn’t spell nothing with an ‘e’, or descend into that noisome bottomless pit of Cavs/Lakers bashing.(Side note: The noisome bottomless pit of Cavs/Lakers bashing is like a vacuum that sucks all intellectual energies from an NBA blog, but I digress)

If Scal’s contract is expiring, which it may or may not be, teams looking to free-up cap space for 2010’s all-star free-agency would have a large incentive to offload a mid-level contract in return for two expiring ones. Boston is looking to contend this year, and the same can be said of maybe three other teams, for everyone else, trading-down now and off-loading longer-term contracts makes perfect sense. I don’t know if Houston would be willing to part with Battier, but it is comforting to know that, with some expiring contracts (or at least with some low level contracts) on Boston’s bench, coupled with next Summer’s star-filled free agency, Boston has some leverage in making a strong late-season pick-up who could bolster their bench and enhance their chances at another title run come May. A strong 1 on 1 defender at the Small Forward coming off the bench behind Pierce, like Shane Battier, would put but Boston over the top in the East and quite possibly in the entire league. The Celtics bench would simply be unrivaled.

Or, who knows, maybe at the last minute Ainge will entice Bruce Bowen out of retirement and have another P.J. Brown moment circa the Celtics 08’ title run. Of course Bowen has already won a few titles, so the incentive isn’t quite the same, but still, one can hope.