Your post clearly demonstrates your lack of knowledge about what really caused us to be awful for years after Bird, McHale, and Parish retired.
Its not because we held them back, its because our management became worse than the current Bobcats management.
Picking antoine walker over Kobe and many other awful moves. If Pierce hadn't been drafted by us, we would have set the record for worst win/loss record long ago.
Plus, times were much different in the 80's than they are now. There is way too much talent in the league, compared to what it was at that time.
Moves like trading Joe Johnson for rent a players. Who we had for less then half a year that got us maybe one series closer.
Players have a trajectory. i would rather have young ones on an upward slope now then aging ones on a downward.
Are people on this board insane? Peirce does it 1 game in 5 at the most. Garnett gets limited minutes and averages o.k numbers.
If the team was on the top then o.k. go with them, but there NOT!!!!!!!
People please stop holding onto sentiment. Garnett can posture all he wants in a game, but in reality he is a mere contributor on a team with higher aspirations.
That is a ridiculous logic.
According to that logic, Wizards, Kings, Bobcats, Cavaliers, Pistons, Raptors, Bucks, 76ers, Hornets, Timberwolves, TrailBlazers, Rockets should all be doing very good since they all have young players with huge upside.
By the way, as for calling KG average, uhm, if Heat had KG right now, he would be starting over Bosh.
Last offseason, before it was revealed KG will resign with Celtics, there were reports of teams like Nets willing to give KG near-max contracts.
So saying he is average is complete BS, as more than 80% of this league would jump out to get him right away if given the opportunity to.