This should kill the Perkins trade bitterness quite a bit!

[StartOrien]

Also, I know we selected Jeff Green but didn't it come out later that Danny was leaning towards selecting Chariman Yi had he held onto the pick?

[Megatron]

Interesting subquestion:

Would you trade Kendrick Perkins for Ray Allen?

Good question. Back then Perkins had absolutely no value.

His value was earned when we lost game 7 and he immediately became the Celtics best player and key to winning a title.

Gun point, you know exactly what Kenrick Perkins becomes - and you can only take one player going forward in 2008, would you select Perkins or Ray-Ray?

All day everyday! Can't Start a franchise with Perkins. Milwaukee & Seattle did with Ray.

In this scenario the rest of the cast would stay (relatively) the same as it did. I think I'd take Perkins.

Ray Allen without second thought, you always win when getting the best player in the deal.

That would be like the Kwame Brown trade, Lakers got a star player in Gasol, and gave up one of the worst players in the league with Brown.

[KG_ended_Bias]

Modified the title for the sake of friends. Didn't need the unnecessary backlash for. Perkins of all Celtics.

Just wait for my Robert Parish was the best Celtic player of the 80's thread. 

[Roy H.]

Interesting subquestion:

Would you trade Kendrick Perkins for Ray Allen?

Nope.  I love Perk, but he's more replaceable than Ray.