Perk is out for a month, Nate is out probably for the rest of the season...please enough with the Perkins threads!!! We get it, you hate the trade Perkins looked sad in the pictures, horrible! Could trading Perkins and Nate actually give us our best shot at banner 18? Neither will be ready until the playoffs really, even then who would our center have been? Erden? I'm tired of posters acting as if the Celtics gave up the next great prospect for peanuts. I'm going to say this one time, and one time only. Would you as a GM make this trade?
You get: Troy Murphy, Kristic, Jeff Green and a stiff from New Orleans
Give: Perkins, Nate (Both hurt) Erdin and Harangody.
If you are a contender you make that deal every day, improves rebounding and defense on the wing. The only thing that you might lose is point guard depth, which Nate wasn't that good at anyways. Do the numbers, Murphy up until this year was getting a averaging a double double or close to it every year. Perk has never done this, and while hes the physical presence that this team needs, KG is the real catalyst for the defense.