The Modern NBA Is All About Personal Relationships…

[GreenlyGreeny]

…so what if Ime’s relationship with Kawhi brings him to Boston? Perhaps this is the ultimate play in motion, what is behind all that we’ve witnessed recently? If you’re Kawhi, why not come to Boston and go down in the history books as a legend winning titles with a historic franchise, with your buddy Ime as head coach, and full-time access to the best doctors in the world in Boston? The more I think about it, the more I think my 2.5 year dream of Kawhi to Boston may actually come true…

Discuss.

[gouki88]

How???

[bowlingwarnie]

also he will probably be out pretty much all of next season -- uurrgh

[Ogaju]

doesn’t this belong in the Greenly thread?

[ozgod]

I love the amount of dominos that need to fall in the right order and time for some of Greenly's assumptions to come true 

[GreenlyGreeny]

How???

Now that we have Dunn at PG as a cheap (yet highly motivated) replacement for Smart, here’s one way come August 19:

BOS In: Kawhi
BOS Out: Smart, Timelord, Richardson, Parker, GWill, Edwards, 2023 1st, 2025 1st

Smart/Timelord/Richardson/Parker/two picks allow LAC/Ballmer to save face. Smart is a starter, Timelord is possibly a future starter, Richardson is great depth, and Parker is a nice rotational piece for their top ten. GWill/Edwards fill out their roster/make the dollars work (we may have to send them elsewhere in the trade and/or include one or two second rounders to move them off our books).

If you’re LAC and told you’re losing Kawhi no matter what because he wants to come back to the Eastern Conference, this package is a lot better than losing him to NY for nothing.

Roster
Dunn/Pritchard
Brown/Langford
Leonard/Nesmith
Tatum
Horford/Fernando

Round it out with:

MLE 4/5 who is 6th man
Ring-chasing 1/2 at the min.
Re-sign Ojeyele to a 1-year min.
Re-sign Kornet to a 1-year min.
Bring back IT as 14th man, 1-year min.

Note: Begarin and Madar remain stashed.

We’ve got our Big 3 come playoff time, we’ve still got a decent amount of youth to grow older with Tatum/Brown, and we’ve got veteran leadership in Horford/Leonard. Absolutely love bookending our Big 3 with high IQ defensive stalwarts in Dunn and Horford, too. We would definitely have the best defensive team in the league when Kawhi is back.