The thing is this offseason is the scheduled rebuild year
according to who?
If he was interested in actually developing talent we would've kept Gerald Green, traded pierce for the #3 pick and chris paul, and kept al jefferson
He had a number of years of irrelevancy with the need to improve. now, not so much. he has better assets available to him to put together a very good team with current parts.
As a result, it wouldn't shock me if a major roster overhaul is done this offseason
Much different from your original statement that one or both of them will definitely be traded.
This time around we have guys like
LaMarcus Aldridge, David Lee, Dwight Howard, Josh Smith, OJ Mayo, Rudy Gay, Deron Williams, Roy Hibbert, Eric Gordon, Andrew Bogut, and Al Jefferson
It would shock me if 2-3 of these guys WEREN'T wearing a celtics jersey come next season
It would shock me if we obtained any of those players. None except Mayo are remotely realistic and with Bradley's improvement, I don't see the need for Mayo (except on turkey sandwiches)
We could be going
Rondo/Rivers/Josh Smith/Aldridge/Stiemsma Next year
with Jeff Green 6th man.
I think there's a good chance we might make a push for aldridge or david lee, they might come cheaper than we expect, especially if we are willing to take on a bad contract in return which we can, Biedrins would actually be serviceable for us
or something come next year
I think there's 0 chance of Aldridge or Lee. No realistic basis for anyone to think we'd have the trade assets those teams want without those players on their roster.
I have a strong feeling Rivers is going to find his way into boston, Doc was going to leave coaching to "be closer to his son" and then he went on to sign an extension, obviously the premise behind it was possibly working together
not sure why you'd have a strong feeling over that but whatever.
If we don't get Rivers, Eric Gordan and OJ Mayo are there to fill in the SG void
I'll be willing to risk all the assets we have
and try to end up with a lineup of
Rondo/Eric Gordon/Josh Smith/David Lee/Steamer
We try to outbid for Gordon if not pay for Mayo, whoever's cheaper. I'm also going to take pierce's word on retiring, we may amnesty him to allow for this
Again, with Bradley's development, especially his consistency because it's not like he's having up and down games as the season progresses, Mayo and Gordon don't look like priorities this offseason, particularly when considering their anticipated cost and lack of defensive efforts/skills.
We can sign & trade Ray Allen a Pick and Bass for Josh Smith
no way Atlanta takes that package. Ray's damaged goods and with limited time left and as much as I like Bass, he's not on Smith's level as a player.
We package S&T KG, throw in JJJ to land David Lee and Beindries
just to go along with the fantasy KG would agree to a S&T to a crap team, why would a non-contender (someone not even close such as Golden State) trade their best front court player and serviceable big man for a 1-2 year rental of KG (which would be a budget-busting contract to be sure) and an unproven rookie?
The kicker is we can throw the MLE to get andrei Kirlienko or something
how about we just kick the idea of using the MLE on AK completely?
Here's much more likely line-up for next year:
Starting: Rondo, Bradley, PP, KG & FA bigman (the FA can be either a center or PF depending on whether KG is ok playing center next year)
Bench: Pietrus, Green, Steimsma, Bass (or other FA 4/5 but preferably Bass), JJJ, Moore, FA PG & 3 rookies (2 1sts and 1 2nd)
(Hollins, Dooling, Sasha, Quisy are all gone. Maybe the FA bigs swill be Wilcox and/or Sean Williams if either is healthy and looks to be ready to play)
Look for the FA contracts and resignings to coincide with PP's contract ending where Danny frees up the cap room to take a real run at top FA's that year and has almost everyone else on rookie deals or on reasonable extensions (like Rondo). One thing to consider is that the proposed 'likely' roster is a very solid team depending on the FA pickups but even if the starting big man rotation was Bass & KG, and we added reasonable FA bench talent (such as Camby, Wilcox or Williams), that team is deep enough to make some waves for a couple of years until a real retooling can happen. Also the young kids will have had a chance to prove their abilities and Danny can determine if they're keepers or trade bait.
bottom line, neither Rondo or Bradley is 'definitely' going to be traded.