In Alt. Universe where Celts drafted Dirk as planned & Joe Johnson wasn't canned

[nora gretz]

is it worthy to be an entertaining thought?

If the Celtics had gotten their way & drafted Dirk?
If Joe Johnson was never traded?
If Rudy Gay was drafted?
Would Gerald Green still be here? lol  
Would Perk have accepted being a role playing big man behind Big Al @ center?
Would Danny use Al Jefferson as trade bait to snag Tyreke Evans? (to fulfill his Tony Allen fixation)
Could you fathom Rondo as a back-up pg behind Tyreke (who danny would tell coach to play as a penny hardaway type) who would inevitably have a break-out year once Tyreke got injured on a tony allen type play

Would Pierce be more of a trash-talking (in a good way ) player, given Cuban's style of managing, with more rings (2+) on a Mavericks team with more help than he ever had up until the Big 3 era?

Would KG have stuck it out with Brandon "no-knees" Roy past the johnny flynn/rubio era? or would he have demanded a trade to the Mavericks or Lakers

Would a OKC team with Ray Allen in the mix have gotten far?
Would he have also demanded a trade to the Mavericks or Lakers? Would Big Baby complain he's not getting more minutes than Ibaka?

Does the idea of KG & Ray Allen playing 6th man minutes (sorry Lamar Kardashian, you're still on the east coast)
alongside Kobe make your blood boil?

Does the idea of no celtics big three (other than the spurs model) erase Lebron's thinking pattern to head to south beach?

Would Delonte & Gloria James still have an affair to make Lebron crumble in the playoffs? Or would he have gone after Dirk's/Johnson's mother? smh

Would Wade have gone to chicago after Shaq left? (taking into consideration Lamarcus was never traded to Portland)

Would Chris Bosh have landed in his hometown with Pierce?

Would Carmelo have become the new "lebron" in terms of bringing Amar'e to Orlando with him to join Dwight Howard?

Would we all have to still bear Lebron being called the next MJ (& not the Karl Marlone-Pippen that he truly is) because he wouldn't have been exposed on the big stage cracking under pressure (this year's finals & against the celtics last year in playoffs)


Rondo/Telfair
Johnson/Delonte
Tony/Rudy Gay/Gerald
Dirk/Jeff Green
Big Al/Perk/Leon Powe

Fisher
Kobe/Ray

KG
Bynum

Pierce
Bosh

[PosImpos]

There's no way of knowing which draft picks the Celtics would have had in this "alternate universe" after drafting Dirk.  One draft pick like that can change the whole future of the franchise.  No way to predict what the roster looks like after that.

[Michael Anthony]

Dirk would have been a footnote, and nothing more.

You forget one Antoine Devon Walker!