Would adding Cousins and Butler give us a chance at beating the Cavs/Warriors?

[Kuberski33]

Butlers not getting traded

[jpotter33]

Butlers not getting traded

Wait until him and Rondo start bumping heads with divergent playing styles 

[slamtheking]

Butlers not getting traded

Wait until him and Rondo start bumping heads with divergent playing styles 

they're building around Butler, not Rondo.  if one gets shipped out, it won't be Butler

[Kuberski33]

In trying to come up with trade ideas no one considers the business aspect of a team trading their stars.  You cannot sell rebuilding to your corporate sponsors or the season ticket base unless your current team completely bottoms out. 

We're seeing this play out now with all these ridiculous free agent contracts being given out by middle of the road teams with zero chance of winning a title.  It keeps people buying tickets and sponsors renewing their deals. 

You can probably count on one hand the number of owners with the patience to do what the celtics are doing and certainly no GM is going to do it without full ownership support and a guaranteed contract to back it up.  Plus you can't sell fans on the fact that you team is going to suck for the next 3 or 4 years. 

That's also why there was no market for the Celtics draft picks when there should have been.

[chambers]

I think this team does pretty well with Brad in charge.
Defenders to guard Curry/Durant in switches and on the perimeter and legitimate size that can stretch the floor.
Draymond Green would have a hard time stopping us scoring inside. Seems like a good antedote to the small ball death squad.

Biggest issue is we'd probably lose two of BradleyS/Smart/Crowder/Brown if we acquired Cousins and Jimmy.
IT
Butler
Crowder
Horford
Cousins

Bradley
Smart
Jaylen
KO
Jerebko

edit:
Just to stop the 'how the hell can we get those guys?!? rager posts..some rough realistic trade scenarios...

Cousins and the Kings reach boiling point and they decide to deal him with 1.5 seasons left on his deal.
Rondo and Jimmy don't get a long, Jimmy gets more and more frustrated with the Bulls and Hoiberg.

1) Jaylen+2018 nets pick+Memphis pick+ Zizic+Hunter for Cousins

and then

2)Smart+2017 Nets pick+18' C's pick for Butler.

Leaves us with Crowder or Bradley as the 6th man and a badass starting 5.

Boston can't trade its 2017 pick and then both picks in 2018, thus making those trades collectively impossible.  That also isn't nearly enough value for Butler and probably isn't enough for Cousins (that depends more on how much Sacto likes Brown).

Then we will give them the Clippers first round pick. lol.

If the Nets are a bottom 3-5 team (which is very, very possible) and Butler isn't happy in Chicago, that's certainly a package that will be considered.

The idea is that if we can keep at least
IT
Butler
Crowder
Horford
Cousins

and one or two of Smart, Jaylen, Bradley with
KO
Jerebko
Rozier


then we have a shot at beating CLE/GSW.
The trade scenarios aren't perfect, but they're a foundation based in some solid level of realistic possibility...that's why I said they were rough.

We also have a plethora of 2nd rounders and young guys to sweeten the cherry on top.