If I were KG and you told me you had traded Perk for a draft choice I would say trade me too. i have 3 good years left and hopefully win two more championships and now you throw that away . How could I trust that you would not do something else dumb. KG only came here because he thought he could win a championship. Not because of money but because of glory. And you want to tinker with that. You don’t need to win.

Don’t make a good fellow into a bad fellow.

Zak, if we could trade Perkins for another center who is currently BETTER than he is, I would agree with you. But that would be extremely difficult, because Perkins is an absolute top notch post defender, and is an absolute bargain at $4mill a year.

Centres in the league that would be better fits on the Celtics are generally going to cost you over $10mill, which means trading Ray and committing most of our dollars to the frontcourt at the expense of the backcourt (giving up Ray for a centre means signing a cheaper replacement for Ray).

If you are talking about getting the #2 pick and taking Thabeet, I think you would almost certainly be closing the Big Three’s window one or two years early. At the very least, you would have to trade Ray to get the #2, because Perk would not be enough. I like what I have seen of Thabeet and think he could be a dominant big man in 5 years, but its highly unlikely he would be reliable enough in his first season for the Celtics to win the Championship. And once again you’re left needing to find a SG to replace Ray’s 18ppg and .480 FG%.

Not going to be easy. I just think moving any of the starting five is a really big risk, with the chance at one or two more championships at stake! Next off-season is a better time to re-assess our core.