A Kenyon Martin or a Shane Battier / Tayshaun Prince type would probably be my favourite targets. Kenyon being the first choice. I greatly like the idea of Kenyon + Garnett playing alongside one another.
But those guys are going to require multi-year deals that harm Boston's 2012 cap flexibility.
That's the killer. Does adding Martin or Battier or Prince really push the squad back to Championship level? I have a hard time thinking so, not with KG and Ray and Pierce all being a year older. It's just prolonging the inevitable. Anybody like that who would actually HELP is going to be demanding (and getting) a contract offer of at least three years.
I mean, if you really want to keep your options open for 2012, you have to let Green walk if he signs any offer sheet, and you can't use the MLE.
Danny has made it no secret that he would have busted up the Bird/McHale/Parish combination long before they did. I have to believe we may well see him do that - this summer - to Pierce/Ray/KG.
I'd hate to see them TANK, and as long as Pierce and Rondo are playing I can't see them being bad enough to get a top-5 draft pick anyway.
Trade Ray if you can get some good young prospects for him (Who, aren't you a big fan of one of Chicago's young bigs?).
Trade KG if you can make a huge splash with Orlando.
Buy a first round pick or two this year (there will be sellers). The draft looks mediocre, but we need an infusion of youth. We need to begin the process of acquiring trade assets. We've got Avery Bradley (meh), our picks, and the Clippers pick if we wanted to put together a trade package using the KG/Ray deals.
The team just isn't good enough. It's not just this series, it's been evident for months.