Moving Pierce is key to Rebuilding

[Celtics18]

I'm not sure Jason Thompson, Frank Garcia, and Marcus Thornton are the best we could do for Paul Pierce, but Mr. Anthony may be right that we could get some nice players back for him in a trade.

I would never sanction a Paul Pierce trade, though. I'll admit that's pretty much all based on loyalty and sentimentality.  I want to see our captain retire a Celtic.

Now, if you want to talk to me about what we can get for Garnett or Allen, I'm all ears. 

[Lucky17]

Unless Wyc suddenly sells the team, or finds Pierce in bed with his wife, there's no way he OKs a trade sending Pierce out of Boston.

Wyc is Pierce's biggest fan. Pierce retires as a Celtic.

[bruinsandceltics]

Unless Wyc suddenly sells the team, or finds Pierce in bed with his wife, there's no way he OKs a trade sending Pierce out of Boston.

Wyc is Pierce's biggest fan. Pierce retires as a Celtic.

As he should.

[bruinsandceltics]

Pierce retiring as a Celtic is a cute idea. I can get behind it. He meant a lot to us when we were terrible, and even more when we were champions.

Holding on to your good old players is a bad strategy, because they keep you good enough to make the playoffs, but not good enough to win.

Parish, Maxwell, Ainge and DJ all played for different teams. Tiny and Cowens did too.

Pierce is retiring as a Celtic. If you accept that or not is up to you, but Paul Pierce has earned the right to retired as a Celtic no matter what he does for the rest of his career.

Pierce is good enough to be on a championship team still and that is all that matters. End of story.

Danny Ainge, is that you?

Don't need to be Danny Ainge to realize what I said is true.

You don't hand a guy who has been with your team through thick and thin a 4 year contract worth a lot of money at the age of 33 without the intentions of having him retire with your team.

I love Pierce. He is all heart.

Let me put this question to you differently:

Would you rather keep Pierce and have Atlanta Hawks level success, or would you rather move Pierce and compete for championships?

Keeping Pierce means not clearing enough cap space OR collecting attractive enough pieces to lure Howard to Boston in 2012.

We as fans, all expect loyalty from the players who play on our team.

So I as a fan, also expect loyalty out of management to see that a player like Paul Pierce deserves to retire as a Celtic.

There are other ways to get another title other than trading Pierce, if our GM can't do it than he needs to be fired.

[Mr October]

If moving Pierce lands you a legit top 8 player in the NBA in his prime, you have to do it.

If someone said you could trade an aging Larry Bird for Jordan, Karl Malone, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Olajuwon, etc... you have to do it.

Now if its Bird for Chuck Person.... or Pierce for Iguodala, I'll pass.

[hpantazo]

Unless Wyc suddenly sells the team, or finds Pierce in bed with his wife, there's no way he OKs a trade sending Pierce out of Boston.

Wyc is Pierce's biggest fan. Pierce retires as a Celtic.

TP, I couldn't have put it better myself. There is no way Wyc allows anyone to trade Pierce.

[eugen]

Trading Pierce will be the most stupid move than we can hear. The emblems/ simbols are not object of trade. Do not touch Pierce!

[BASS_THUMPER]

cant move the capt

what happened to loyalty

[birdwatcher]

Pierce is a Celtic. He's the only one I'd be p---ed about being moved. Dwight Howard is not coming here. Nor is CP3, or any other big name aside from the ones we have on our roster. We can add role players, but not at the expense of #34.

[anthony83]

 PAUL PIERCE is a legend, i don´t this comment, he´s a symbol and emblema celtic.

[Bahku]

No way ... Paul's not going anywhere ... the Truth is retiring as  celtic. I see all these trade threads about getting rid of different members of the Big Three, and people are not considering the fact that the only reason Doc stayed on was to work with them again ... they are not going anywhere, so the trades including Ray, Paul or KG just have no weight at all.

[CoachBo]

Pierce is off the table.

We have plenty of pieces to move for a cornerstone player - Rondo, Green, Davis resigned, a key draft pick.

[FallGuy]

No way ... Paul's not going anywhere ... the Truth is retiring as  celtic. I see all these trade threads about getting rid of different members of the Big Three, and people are not considering the fact that the only reason Doc stayed on was to work with them again ... they are not going anywhere, so the trades including Ray, Paul or KG just have no weight at all.

Think you're very wrong about this.

Doc is here for five years. He knows a rebuilding is coming no later than next summer. If it starts four months early, who cares?

Ainge very well might move KG or Allen by the trade deadline.

[clover]

If moving Pierce lands you a legit top 8 player in the NBA in his prime, you have to do it.

If someone said you could trade an aging Larry Bird for Jordan, Karl Malone, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Olajuwon, etc... you have to do it.

Now if its Bird for Chuck Person.... or Pierce for Iguodala, I'll pass.

How possibly would moving Pierce land you that?

[Marcus13]

Agreed. People talk about trading Rondo, but trading Pierce is the best way to put us in a position to become contendors again.  He just signed that large 4-year extension that is going to make it very difficult to start the re-building process with an aging SF taking up so much CAP Space for such a long period of time