Trading with the Enemy: Pierce for Gasol

by antibucher on Jan 17, 2012 4:33 PM EST

Who, besides me, thinks this would be a good idea.. Obviously very unlikely to happen, but Celtics NEED a big man in order to be competitive.. Garnett cannot cut it anymore as our top big guy.. Lakers could desperately use a better small forward and still have bynum to play in the low post and clog up the middle.. Celtics after trade: Rondo Allen Pietrus Garnett Gasol With Bass, Dooling, O'Neal and Daniels as primary bench players Could also seek to trade O'Neal and Draft Picks to get some scoring help on the wings.. maybe for O.J. Mayo.. Also, if Green is able to come back next year, he could be plugged into the open starting forward hole..Allen and Garnett could be brought back potentially as well.. Absolute worst case after the year, celtics would have Rondo, Gasol, 2 number one picks and tons of cap space.. Thoughts??

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Absolutely freaking not.

by KY Celts fan on Jan 17, 2012 4:41 PM EST reply actions

I second this notion.

"Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... Remember one thing: He's been very fortunate. He picks his spots. That's all I can say." - Red Auerbach

by Sizzlack on Jan 17, 2012 4:52 PM EST up reply actions

Fooling ourselves

Would be great …….

by juanpan on Jan 17, 2012 5:34 PM EST reply actions

trade pierce?

never.

I don't follow rules, I let the rules follow me.

by relja111 on Jan 17, 2012 10:09 PM EST reply actions

I Was Actually Just Thinking the Same Thing

This trade solves needs for both teams. Plus the Lakers still spare Bynum for a DH trade. I think Kobe would love to have Pierce playing by his side. I doubt this happens, but I would definitely sign off on it.

I think right now, Ray Allen is more of a leader on this team than Paul Pierce. I also think Pierce has lost that fire he had pre-2008 championship.

by gpap on Jan 17, 2012 10:48 PM EST reply actions

we give up a lot this year

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=7mfwlh2
this trade we basically give up most of our team this year but we would have lost all but rondo anyway next year. we get a franchise center and a good pf a good backup to pierce and a good backup to gasol plus we could demand their two first round picks since we would basically clear 20 million in cap room next season for them to get howard. they would have rondo bryant and howard and our staring 5 would be
1. fisher/ dooling
2.moore/ bradley
3.Pierce/ artest
4.Gasol/ bass/ walton
5.Bynum/steamer/JJ
now obviously we would have to play big for this year and we would be hurt this year because we would only have fisher dooling bradley and moore for the 1 and 2 but we would have four first round picks we could package 2 together and move up to take rivers and one of the good pg in the draft and we would be extemely good. this draft is loaded with SG and PG so we could have one of the best front courts in the league and a very young backcourt. we dont seem to be that great of a free agent destination so we lose the cap room we were going to have but we get some very good players in return and get a lot of pull in the draft

by JuJuan some moore on Jan 18, 2012 10:41 PM EST reply actions