people are overly down on the trade chips the c's have, not the actual evaluations of the players, but actual trade chips, kg if he retires becomes one hell of a trade chip, because once he negotiates his buyout he comes of the cap immediately, if kg wants to retire and is willing to accept a next to nothing buyout thats a pretty good piece of trade bait, for example you could package kg contract with bradley, and try and execute a sign and trade for a big al, josh smith etc, tyreke evans etc
similarly paul if decides to retire his contract can become an asset although to a lesser extent cause his buyout is already worked out for 5 million.
One of the key to the offseason will be to stay below the apron, because teams that wish to execute sign and trade are not allowed to go above the apron, for that reason i can't see ainge picking up pauls 10 million dollar option, which doesn't neccasary mean getting rid of paul, cos i think they could resign him for the MLE if they stayed below the apron.