We are are a great team and a complete team but i know how we can get better.
Trade:
Celtics Get:
Josh Smith
Hawks Get:
Avery Bradely
Brandon Bass
Fab Melo
Celtics 1st round pick
Celtics 2nd round pick
Other Team 2nd round pick
Other Team Gets:
Jason Collins
Cash
Then, sign Chris Anderson and Eddie House.
Rajon Rondo/ Jason Terry/ Eddie House
Courtney Lee/ Jason Terry/ Dionte Christmas
Paul Pierce/ Jeff Green/ Kris Joseph
Josh Smith/ Jared Sullinger/ Chris Wilcox
Kevin Garnett/ Darko Milicic/ Chris Anderson
I agree he is Danny's main target,but we would have to trade Bass and Green to make the money work for a trade.
You are correct that the money doesn't work in celticmania's trade.
But trading Bass AND Green is overkill on the salary matching.
To bring Smith's salary in (balloons to 15M on trade clause) we need to send at least 10M. But we need to send a little more than that to stay under the luxury tax threshold - so ~11M or so should do it.
Green plus Bass is 14M+ - so that's overkill. Plus, while we can afford to trade Bass because we have depth at PF AND the player we get back (Smith) would be a PF, however trading Green robs us of our SF depth behind Pierce, which is critical. I don't think we can afford to do that. We need Pierce to be fresh come playoffs.
Bass plus Lee is 11M. That trade works better for matching the money plus once Bradley is back then we have more depth at SG to trade from. I.E., Lee becomes a tradable luxury. Yes, Atlanta has a surplus of SGs of its own right now. To make this work, you probably need a third team that would take either Lee or someone from ATL's roster in exchange for something ATL needs in order to make the deal work. Sweeten the deal with draft picks.
The net would be the C's getting Smith and Atlanta getting Bass + Lee/whatever + picks. ATL has to take some sort of deal like that at some point or watch Smith walk at the end of the year.