KG ending up in Boston

[BballTim]

  I'm sure there were quotes from Cuban right after the deal about how he could have outbid Boston for KG but didn't because what he had left after making such a deal wouldn't have been good enough to contend.

Which meant that McHale was asking for Dirk as part of a package for KG. Otherwise what could he mean?

I still love the way the KG trade worked. Take the worst team in the NBA. Trade all of your players except for your 1st, 3rd, and 4th best players for two HoFs. Instant contender!

  It could mean that he was trading Howard, Harris, Terry and Stackhouse and/or Dampier so he'd still have KG and Dirk and not enough other players to win with or any decent tradeable assets left.

I'm not sure why McHale would take back Dampier's awful contract along with Stackhouse's deal. Sure he'd be getting a good combo guard, a good point guard, and a good small forward. But he'd have no cap room anytime soon and no big man. It was always clear to me that McHale wanted cap relief and a big. Maybe if the Mavericks had included Howard/Harris/Terry and some expiring contracts, I'm not sure what options they had during that particular moment.

  I just saw quotes from Cuban saying that if he made the KG deal then he wouldn't have enough pieces left to contend for a title. He didn't mention the particulars or if he did I don't recall them. But it's pretty silly to now claim that it was because McHale liked Ainge.

[xmuscularghandix]

i can only imagine that KG wouldn't wanna play with Dirk becuase they'd suck together, and KG hates playing center.

and why would McHale wanna trade his old big man for another old big man? he'd want young talent in return.

[Schupac]

Vaguely related, I am only now getting over my own sour grapes on the Gasol to LA trade and admitting it wasn't the worst trade in the universe's history.

Yeah.  Still not a good trade, but Marc Gasol has ended up a lot better than just about anybody other than Chris Wallace was predicting.

Indeed, and the desire to dump salary so hard turned out to be a little prescient looking at the league now.  Hard to tell if that was Chris Wallace showing some foresight (something he didn't show much of in Boston) but it turned out to be the right move for that small market team.

[Nerf DPOY]

Cuban should save his conspiracy theories for the wasteland that is the Real GM General NBA discussion board.