Avery doesn't have a single above average skill that can be utilized to provide a positive impact. His shooting is average on the wing and his on ball defensive value is significantly diminished in a league that has grown much smarter. When you add in the fact that he is undersized, injury prone, afraid of screens, very reluctant to draw a charge, poor help defender, etc.. I mean I like Avery but I can't think of a single reason why a G.M. would want to acquire him, let alone sign him to anything resembling a big, long term contract.
What on earth are you talking about?? Bradley was pretty clearly the 3rd best player on the EC #1 team two years ago (2nd leading scorer), he is elite coming off screens/dribble hand-offs into a quick jump-shot, he was literally known as a 'bulldog', and he is as squeaky clean as they come off the court (and a great locker room guy).
It's like you have never seen AB play. Other superstar guards consistently rate Bradley as the best defensive player they have ever played against. Long wings who can hit the 3 are certainly the new hip thing, but saying AB has no place in today's NBA is just patently false.
Avery had more trash games in the 16-17 playoffs than he had good ones. The Celtics defense was atrocious save for a few games against Chicago AFTER Rondo went down and the Bulls had NO reliable PG. The C's small guards (including Avery) were by far the single biggest problem defensively. Avery looked great against an offensively inept Bulls team post Rondo and pretty ineffective otherwise.
He is NOT elite coming off screens/dribble hand offs. I don't think he has posted an above average T.S. in his entire career.
Other superstar guards do praise Avery's on ball defense and then they proceed to move him off ball, run him off screens, force him into switches, turn him into a help defender, etc. and make him ineffective. Teams used to be dumber and would go at guys like Bradley in isolation, they do so far far less nowadays, they instead seek out better mismatches or attack him indirectly because he simply isn't very good off the ball. Portland did exactly this late in the 15-16 season when Boston went there. Lillard and C.J. praised Avery both before and after the game, however during the game they just refused to go at him and moved him off ball. If Avery picked up Lillard then C.J. would bring it up and Lillard set up on the wing and vice versa, they rendered him much less effective by doing so.
I didn't say Avery doesn't belong in the NBA. He simply doesn't provide a positive impact anymore just as half the rest of the league doesn't. He will find a job somewhere on the cheap in a smaller role.