Perk played GREAT tonight

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I don't know.  I think if both options were on the table, Danny would have parted with BBD, and would have relied upon Green and Murphy to fill in at PF. 

The fact is, Perk is a much better and more valuable NBA player than BBD, and I don't think Danny would have let perceived roster issues get in the way of keeping the vastly better player.

Of course, OKC would have felt the same way, which is why Perk is gone, and BBD isn't.

I respectfully disagree.

I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable with a frontcourt of:

O'Neal/O'Neal/Kristic
KG/ BBD/ Green / Murphy

then I do w/

Perkins/O'Neal/O'Neal
KG/ Green / Murphy

I like Murphy, and think/hope he'll turn it around. But at that point you go from hoping to get a contribution to needing one.

Davis has proven he is a good player in the Celtics system, but by no means does he have even half of the value of Perk on the open market. OKC has been searching for ways to get Ibaka more playing time, why would they trade a better player in Green for a worse player in Davis? I get that we also got a 1st rounder and maybe that's the difference people are talking about, but OKC has been rumored to be wanting Perk for a while now. When has there ever been interest in Davis.

Davis is just not going to get more than 4 mill as a FA and we already saw what Perk got (and that's probably a little low).

I think you might've missed my point earlier, I was discussing value to the Celtics not financial value.

I recognize the difference in skill between the two (Perkins being the better commodity), but I would argue that based off of who we have at the 5 (O'Neal Brothers & Krstic) and the 4 (Green, Murphy) that Davis presents more value despite not being as talented.

The point is moot, as I'm fairly confident OKC woudln't have made the deal with Davis. I guess I was just trying to drum up a conversation.

I understood your point.  I'm right there with you.  I think the trade was made based on just what your stating. Value for the Celtics roster. Nothing to do with financial value (even though you knew what Perkins might get on the open market). The keys were Shaq and Jermaine.  Shaq being the biggest key.  You could afford to lose a player like Perkins because you knew Shaq, J.O., and Krstic could handle the Center minutes.

Looking at what Perkins contract is now, I'm pretty confident the deal doesn't go down with BBD as well.  It had to be Perkins.

[Redz]

I think Roy had mentioned something about OKC's team defense last night only to be laughed off by some other poster..so, I found this little piece interesting...basically says the same thing as a few others here have been talking about:

if the Thunder challenge the Spurs, Lakers and Mavericks for the Western Conference crown this season, they’ll have to do in inside.

And that means they’ll need more of what they got from Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka in last night’s win over Portland that clinched their second consecutive playoff berth. The two Thunder bigs came up with clutch, back-to-back blocks at the rim in the final minute of a tight game (above), setting the stage for Westbrook to finish the Trail Blazers off with big shots in the final 53 seconds.

“They do a good job protecting the basket,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks told the Oklahoman. “They compliment each other very well.”

While blockbuster trade-deadline deals in other places have yet to provide the desired results (ahem, sorry New York), the Thunder have seen the fruits of general manager Sam Presti‘s front office labor. Perkins was declared a perfect fit by many of us that grade these things immediately, and he’s proved to be exactly that.

Link

Shame on a publication misspelling "compliment" (unless they meant Perk & Ibaka say nice things about each other a lot).

Sounds like Perk is doing his Beastly best in OKC.  Good for him (and the Thunder).  It was a bold move by them too.