Don’t Do It, Brad

[GreenBoomer]

If they were going to add that much salary/tax they should have simply used the TPE.

[Celtics2021]

If they were going to add that much salary/tax they should have simply used the TPE.

Brown + White for Durant is effectively tax neutral, for what it’s worth, and potentially even tax saving if Brown were to make the all-star game.

[ETNCeltics]

Trading for Kevin Durant is the kind of move a team whose window is closing makes. It's a bit of a hail mary, something a young team that just missed a title by 2 games should not be entertaining.

Durant will be 34 before the season. He's missed more games the last 3 years than he has played, by a wide margin. Even being almost 2 years past the Achilles injury, he missed 1/3rd of last season. Anyone who buys him should do so knowing there's a good chance he's going to miss a big part of the season, and a much higher than average chance he won't be 100% for the playoffs. Those things don't improve at 34, they get worse, and Durant is not the physical specimen Lebron is.

We're watching Brad Stevens destroy in slow motion the team he and Danny Ainge have spent the last 6 or 8 years building. What a cluster.

[SHAQATTACK]

He might get fired too , if he don’t …never know what’s on the the minds of the owners.  Usually it’s win at any cost .

[Neurotic Guy]

Trading for Kevin Durant is the kind of move a team whose window is closing makes. It's a bit of a hail mary, something a young team that just missed a title by 2 games should not be entertaining.

Durant will be 34 before the season. He's missed more games the last 3 years than he has played, by a wide margin. Even being almost 2 years past the Achilles injury, he missed 1/3rd of last season. Anyone who buys him should do so knowing there's a good chance he's going to miss a big part of the season, and a much higher than average chance he won't be 100% for the playoffs. Those things don't improve at 34, they get worse, and Durant is not the physical specimen Lebron is.

We're watching Brad Stevens destroy in slow motion the team he and Danny Ainge have spent the last 6 or 8 years building. What a cluster.

I'm confused about this line.  Brad has been pretty great at taking a playoff team to a Finals appearance and then adding 2 solid bench pieces.  He hasn't destroyed anything.  You are taking a rumor at face value.  Successful GMs (Danny too) are said to find their gold sometimes by lucking out of deals that didn't happen. So... if the rumor of what Brad offered is true and the Nets turned it down that still isn't destruction -- because it didn't happen.

But looking at it a different way, I don't think it's a terrible calculus to conclude that windows of opportunity in today's NBA are far less predictable than they used to be.  The opportunity to throw two 6'10" superstars into a starting lineup doesn't happen often and maybe it's smart to grab it when you can.  There are always concerning variables but it could be that Brad sees 2 seasons of being the league favorite as worth the gamble of possibility of 8 years of contention.  I'm not saying I agree, but I'm not an NBA GM and frankly it'd be a train wreck if I was.

Banner 18 will not come easily just as banner 17 didn't.   And clusters of championships don't come without all-time greats.

[ozgod]

Trading for Kevin Durant is the kind of move a team whose window is closing makes. It's a bit of a hail mary, something a young team that just missed a title by 2 games should not be entertaining.

Durant will be 34 before the season. He's missed more games the last 3 years than he has played, by a wide margin. Even being almost 2 years past the Achilles injury, he missed 1/3rd of last season. Anyone who buys him should do so knowing there's a good chance he's going to miss a big part of the season, and a much higher than average chance he won't be 100% for the playoffs. Those things don't improve at 34, they get worse, and Durant is not the physical specimen Lebron is.

We're watching Brad Stevens destroy in slow motion the team he and Danny Ainge have spent the last 6 or 8 years building. What a cluster.

How has he destroyed it? His latest moves were signing Brogdon and Gallo.

We don't even know for sure that he made an formal offer to the Nets vs "what about this guy and that guy what do you think" and someone leaked it to put a fire under some other teams. Am I missing something? 

[Bobshot]

If Stevens is doing all these trade moves (as far as I know, the rest of the FO is still Ainge), then I would much rather have him as GM than Chaim Bloom, who appears to be destroying the Red Sox and their identity as a contending team.