3-way trade idea: BOS/CLE/POR

[CBS_Take a Report]

Boston receives: Kevin Love + Collin Sexton

Portland receives: Jaylen Brown

Cleveland receives: CJ McCollum + Tristan Thompson


We rock with our PG of the future in Sexton with a pretty sick lineup:

PG: Sexton/Smart/Pritchard
SG: Fournier/Nesmith
SF: Tatum/Langford
PF: Love/Horford
C: Williams III/Brown

Al obviously rotated between C and PF depending on lineups.

[Roy H.]

I don’t get that one for us.  We get worse talent and take back a bad contract and a guy who wants a max contract.

[tstorey_97]

Brown = top offensive player & top defensive player = too rare

I do like Sexton though and figured Love might potentially come here before Horford showed up.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Boston receives: Kevin Love + Collin Sexton

Portland receives: Jaylen Brown

Cleveland receives: CJ McCollum + Tristan Thompson


We rock with our PG of the future in Sexton with a pretty sick lineup:

PG: Sexton/Smart/Pritchard
SG: Fournier/Nesmith
SF: Tatum/Langford
PF: Love/Horford
C: Williams III/Brown

Al obviously rotated between C and PF depending on lineups.

[liam]

Great trade for CLE and POR but really bad for Boston. Cleveland would likely be paying to get rid of Love and there not going to resign Sexton. Portland is trading CJ McCollum for Jaylen Brown straight up and they get Thompson? Yeah, very lopsided trade that makes us worse but Portland gets just what it needs.

[slamtheking]

Boston receives: Kevin Love + Collin Sexton

Portland receives: Jaylen Brown

Cleveland receives: CJ McCollum + Tristan Thompson


We rock with our PG of the future in Sexton with a pretty sick lineup:

PG: Sexton/Smart/Pritchard
SG: Fournier/Nesmith
SF: Tatum/Langford
PF: Love/Horford
C: Williams III/Brown

Al obviously rotated between C and PF depending on lineups.

good lord this proposal sucks.  absolutely sucks.  we give up the best player in the deal by far and a solid big man to get a broken-down, overpaid liability at PF and a PG a bottom feeder team is looking to move.

[gouki88]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

[Moranis]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

Thompson is pretty clearly the worst player in that trade, though his contract is a lot better than Love's. 

I think Boston can do that trade, or something close to it without Brown included at all.  Put in Smart, Langford, R. Williams, and a future 1st or two and I think Portland might do it, especially if they decide to rebuild.  That said, Portland and Cleveland could just cut Boston out entirely and just do something like Love and Sexton for McCollum. 

[wiley]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

Thompson is pretty clearly the worst player in that trade, though his contract is a lot better than Love's. 

I think Boston can do that trade, or something close to it without Brown included at all.  Put in Smart, Langford, R. Williams, and a future 1st or two and I think Portland might do it, especially if they decide to rebuild.  That said, Portland and Cleveland could just cut Boston out entirely and just do something like Love and Sexton for McCollum.

Terrible for Boston also...you have an incredibly low opinion of Smart and R. Will, not to mention adding Romeo and 2 firsts...
I know you were just tossing ideas around but...

[GreenEnvy]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

Who is Tristan Thompson better than?

[bricone29]

Do the Celtics have anymore second round draft picks we can throw into this deal to sweeten it up?

[liam]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

Who is Tristan Thompson better than?

Defensively he's better than everyone in the trade but Jaylen.

[Moranis]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

Thompson is pretty clearly the worst player in that trade, though his contract is a lot better than Love's. 

I think Boston can do that trade, or something close to it without Brown included at all.  Put in Smart, Langford, R. Williams, and a future 1st or two and I think Portland might do it, especially if they decide to rebuild.  That said, Portland and Cleveland could just cut Boston out entirely and just do something like Love and Sexton for McCollum.

Terrible for Boston also...you have an incredibly low opinion of Smart and R. Will, not to mention adding Romeo and 2 firsts...
I know you were just tossing ideas around but...

CJ McCollum is BY FAR the best player in that trade.  It isn't close.  Over the last 5 seasons as a 2nd option on a winning team he has basically averaged 22/4/4 shooting 39.4% from 3, 49.4% from 2, and 83.9% from the line.  If Boston acquired him while keeping Tatum, Brown, and Horford, they'd have a real shot at competing for titles over the next couple of seasons.  Smart, Thompson, R. Williams, and a couple of late 1st's is absolutely worth taking a shot with McCollum. 

McCollum, Fournier, Brown, Tatum, Horford with Pritchard, Langford, Nesmith, Parker, Brown is a nice solid 2 deep team and you still have G. Williams, Ojeleye, Kornet, and Edwards to round out the roster (with 1 open spot)

[wiley]

So we receive the 3rd and 5th best players in the deal?

Thompson is pretty clearly the worst player in that trade, though his contract is a lot better than Love's. 

I think Boston can do that trade, or something close to it without Brown included at all.  Put in Smart, Langford, R. Williams, and a future 1st or two and I think Portland might do it, especially if they decide to rebuild.  That said, Portland and Cleveland could just cut Boston out entirely and just do something like Love and Sexton for McCollum.

Terrible for Boston also...you have an incredibly low opinion of Smart and R. Will, not to mention adding Romeo and 2 firsts...
I know you were just tossing ideas around but...

CJ McCollum is BY FAR the best player in that trade.  It isn't close.  Over the last 5 seasons as a 2nd option on a winning team he has basically averaged 22/4/4 shooting 39.4% from 3, 49.4% from 2, and 83.9% from the line.  If Boston acquired him while keeping Tatum, Brown, and Horford, they'd have a real shot at competing for titles over the next couple of seasons.  Smart, Thompson, R. Williams, and a couple of late 1st's is absolutely worth taking a shot with McCollum. 

McCollum, Fournier, Brown, Tatum, Horford with Pritchard, Langford, Nesmith, Parker, Brown is a nice solid 2 deep team and you still have G. Williams, Ojeleye, Kornet, and Edwards to round out the roster (with 1 open spot)

When was it announced that Robert Williams is a finished product? 
McCollum is the best offensive player in the deal Ill give you that...
Amyway you had Romeo in there on top of all that...too steep for me by a lot...

[blink]

Great trade for EVERYONE but the Celtics.  Why on earth would we do that?  Why would Brad Stevens make that trade?
Brad knows Jaylen's value and it is more than a salary dump for K. Love and an over rated point guard putting up numbers on a horrible team.
Plus we give up Thompson as well for that poopoo platter.

I mean do people even think these things through???