Last-Minute Sacrilege Trade Idea

[wiley]

Something about our team unsettles me....We lost too many guys in last couple years....this never happen idea is a short term step back for long term gain, and a huge gamble obviously.

Something about the Brown Tatum combo concerns me...I guess it has to do with amount of time with ball in their hands...without the true distribution skills, and an over-reliance on Tatum (trying to force him into Lebron/Luka role when it's not his strength.

So, the answer is to trade our best player...Tatum.  Nothing else brings enough back to switch gears.

Neither team likely does this..(especially C's) but it's:

Tatum and Carsen Edwards for Scottie Barnes, James Bouknight, Gary Harris (1 year) and Chuma Okeke.

If Bouknight is not there at 8, an alternative is picked, including trading down from pick 8 for targeted guy plus future asset.  Or the trade is nixed if no one else at 8 entices.

Bouknight is not just a scorer but excellent ball handler with high rated intangibles.  NBA ready. A scoring machine (helps make up for Tatum's absence). S. Barnes is as advertised, defense, distribution, passion, size.

Smart, Pritchard, Yam
Bouknight, Romeo
Brown, Nesmith
S. Barnes, Okeke, GWill
Horford, R. Will, M. Brown

Separately or added to expand the trade can be TT, GWill...
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With Barnes as a Point Forward type, and Bouknight's handling and IQ, etc...Bouknight can eventually become the starting PG for the C's...couple years from now or so...

[Roy H.]

Huh.  To me, this seems like trading in $1 million for two lottery tickets where the grand prize is $750k.

[Rondo9]

Is Celticsblog the only place where they're willing to trade their best players even though they've shown no signs of being discontent?

[PAOBoston]

Might as well quit on life after that trade. Yikes man!

[boscel33]

If your trading Tatum, you're trading to get into the top three, no?

[DefenseWinsChamps]

Huh.  To me, this seems like trading in $1 million for two lottery tickets where the grand prize is $750k.

This. The allure of the unknown is strong around draft time, isn't it.

[Celtics4ever]

I think the known is better for us than the unknown.    I have my doubts Tatum will ever be an alpha player but he has the talent to be one.   The question will be mentally do it.   We've all seen the 50 + point games where he dominates.  The draft picks are mystery men, Tatum is more of a sure thing.

[Birdman]

🤭🤭🤭

[footey]

Tatum is not untouchable as trade piece, but this ain't the one.

[ETNCeltics]

Cade Cunningham said a couple days ago that Jayson Tatum was who he hoped he could become.

And some Celtic fans would entertain trading Tatum for Cunningham....

Many people believe Tatum is on track to be one of the 2 or 3 best players in the league. Then again, there's Celtic fans who think he's Andrew Wiggins.

[ETNCeltics]

Tatum is not untouchable as trade piece, but this ain't the one.

Brad Stevens would become the laughingstock of the league if he traded Tatum, and deservedly so.

[Roy H.]

I think the known is better for us than the unknown.    I have my doubts Tatum will ever be an alpha player but he has the talent to be one.   The question will be mentally do it.   We've all seen the 50 + point games where he dominates.  The draft picks are mystery men, Tatum is more of a sure thing.

I’m curious, how are you defining Alpha here?

[footey]

Tatum is not untouchable as trade piece, but this ain't the one.

Brad Stevens would become the laughingstock of the league if he traded Tatum, and deservedly so.

Doesn't it depend on what he got back?  Surely there is some trade that you have to pull the trigger on.  Tatum is not the best player in the NBA, not even top 10, although I expect him to become a top 10 guy. 

[liam]

Another trade that makes the Celtics worse....

[ETNCeltics]

Tatum is not untouchable as trade piece, but this ain't the one.

Brad Stevens would become the laughingstock of the league if he traded Tatum, and deservedly so.

Doesn't it depend on what he got back?  Surely there is some trade that you have to pull the trigger on.  Tatum is not the best player in the NBA, not even top 10, although I expect him to become a top 10 guy.

IMO, he's probably borderline top 10.

Many of the guys ahead of him, like Lebron, Durant, Lillard, are past their primes, or at best, at the end of their primes. Would you trade Tatum for them, all things considered? No way I would. Would you trade him for a perennially injured Anthony Davis or Kawhi Leonard or Joel Embiid? Not me. That leaves a very small pool of guys ahead of him. Luka, Jokic, and?

Since neither of those guys are going to be traded for anyone, Tatum is - IMO - essentially untouchable.