Our Pursuit Of Anthony Davis

[GreenlyGreeny]

Didn't Davis' dad say his son wouldn't be going to Boston, because of how we treated IT...?

Yeah, we probably would have wound up with AD had we not traded IT. Brad was the wunderkind, even KD almost came to us because of Stevens, and then Danny blew all that goodwill trading IT after all the sacrifice he made that year.

that was a BS smokescreen to help push LA as AD's ultimate destination.  The Lebron-Rich Paul connection was going to move heaven and earth to get AD to LA

If we had not traded IT for Kyrie, likely would have got AD at the deadline in 2018...and perhaps, like KG, he’d have fallen in love. AD, Tatum and Brown? Don’t worry about 18th because we’d currently be on our way to 20th...

We all need to stop being in denial about how bad Danny’s rep is with the players because of what happened to IT...

[RJ87]

Didn't Davis' dad say his son wouldn't be going to Boston, because of how we treated IT...?

Yeah, we probably would have wound up with AD had we not traded IT. Brad was the wunderkind, even KD almost came to us because of Stevens, and then Danny blew all that goodwill trading IT after all the sacrifice he made that year.

that was a BS smokescreen to help push LA as AD's ultimate destination.  The Lebron-Rich Paul connection was going to move heaven and earth to get AD to LA

If we had not traded IT for Kyrie, likely would have got AD at the deadline in 2018...and perhaps, like KG, he’d have fallen in love. AD, Tatum and Brown? Don’t worry about 18th because we’d currently be on our way to 20th...

We all need to stop being in denial about how bad Danny’s rep is with the players because of what happened to IT...

You would've had to give up one Tatum or Brown to get AD. Then you have to hope IT's hip doesn't freak him out and make him bolt. You can run a ton of "what if" scenarios, IT's hip is a factor and the outlook wasn't good.

I think if Kyrie would've committed, AD would've been open to coming because he at least knows he's getting a chance to team up with a perennial All-Star in his prime.

[SparzWizard]

As I've consistently stated, acquiring Irving wasn't the problem, the problem was acquiring Irving and then not pulling the trigger on Leonard.  Why acquire a #2 (Irving), if you aren't going to pull the trigger when a #1 (Leonard) becomes available.  If he was never going to acquire the #1, he never should have acquired the #2.

He probably thought Kyrie was a #1.

If he believed that he should be fired.

Kyrie Irving would have been our leading scorer that year after Hayward went down, and Tatum and Brown were still in their 1st and 2nd years.

[Moranis]

As I've consistently stated, acquiring Irving wasn't the problem, the problem was acquiring Irving and then not pulling the trigger on Leonard.  Why acquire a #2 (Irving), if you aren't going to pull the trigger when a #1 (Leonard) becomes available.  If he was never going to acquire the #1, he never should have acquired the #2.

He probably thought Kyrie was a #1.

If he believed that he should be fired.

Kyrie Irving would have been our leading scorer that year after Hayward went down, and Tatum and Brown were still in their 1st and 2nd years.

That doesn't mean he was a 1 nor does it mean Ainge thought he was a 1.  If Ainge truly believed that Irving could be the best player on a title team, then he absolutely should be fired because that is just terrible player analysis.