2013 Draft Day Trade

[TheTruthFot18]

Haven't seen a thread on this but I found it very interesting:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1640535-2013-nba-mock-draft-full-1st-round-predictions-with-potential-trades/page/17

If Pierce is leaving no matter what, wouldn't this be the best option? Plus he goes back to LA

We win big on this IMO getting a legit center (contact and offensive skills aside) along with a short term replacement for PP in Butler and a up and comer in Bledsoe, leaving the Rondo trade discussions open.

I know the writer was just speculating, but does this seem possible? It seems too good of a deal for us.

[BleedGreen1989]

Haven't seen a thread on this but I found it very interesting:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1640535-2013-nba-mock-draft-full-1st-round-predictions-with-potential-trades/page/17

If Pierce is leaving no matter what, wouldn't this be the best option? Plus he goes back to LA

We win big on this IMO getting a legit center (contact and offensive skills aside) along with a short term replacement for PP in Butler and a up and comer in Bledsoe, leaving the Rondo trade discussions open.

I know the writer was just speculating, but does this seem possible? It seems too good of a deal for us.

I actually saw this recently too. Bleacher is kinda meh but it is entertaining to say the least. The more I think about it, the more I sour on Jordan. He is basically a glorified Robin Lopez to me except the massive contract. If we then flip him to say Portland, I would be more interested in the deal but I'm not excited about having Jordan on this roster long term.

On a side note, I think Jordan will be shopped extremely hard this summer. There is no way LA can afford to pay him that much money with CP and Blake both making the max. They will have to fill in the wings with role players which is a bad recipe

[indeedproceed]

Bleacher report sucks. This trade however is feasible.

But Bleacher Report is the black licorice of sports Internet websites. Don't feed them pageviews.

[Evantime34]

Bleacher report sucks. This trade however is feasible.

But Bleacher Report is the black licorice of sports Internet websites. Don't feed them pageviews.

Not everything on BR is bad, I wrote some stuff for them that I thought was pretty good haha.

[ghost_of_davidthirdkill]

Haven't seen a thread on this but I found it very interesting:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1640535-2013-nba-mock-draft-full-1st-round-predictions-with-potential-trades/page/17

If Pierce is leaving no matter what, wouldn't this be the best option? Plus he goes back to LA

We win big on this IMO getting a legit center (contact and offensive skills aside) along with a short term replacement for PP in Butler and a up and comer in Bledsoe, leaving the Rondo trade discussions open.

I know the writer was just speculating, but does this seem possible? It seems too good of a deal for us.

I actually saw this recently too. Bleacher is kinda meh but it is entertaining to say the least. The more I think about it, the more I sour on Jordan. He is basically a glorified Robin Lopez to me except the massive contract. If we then flip him to say Portland, I would be more interested in the deal but I'm not excited about having Jordan on this roster long term.

On a side note, I think Jordan will be shopped extremely hard this summer. There is no way LA can afford to pay him that much money with CP and Blake both making the max. They will have to fill in the wings with role players which is a bad recipe

I know that this is all very unlikely, but if we were to believe that this trade with the Clippers was a possibility, could we then flip Jordan & Bledsoe with some addtional pieces to the Kings for Cousins?  Here's my trade proposal in that scenario.


Celtics receive:  Demarcus Cousins, Caron Butler, John Salmons

Clippers receive:  Paul Pierce, Fab Melo, C's 2013 1st round pick

Kings receive:    DeAndre Jordan, Eric Bledsoe, Avery Bradley, LAC 2013 1st round pick, C's 2014 2nd round pick & C's 2015 1st round pick


I understand that we'd be getting back 2 SF's, but Butler would be a tradeable asset in that he's an expiring contract.

[D.o.s.]

Bleacher report sucks. This trade however is feasible.

But Bleacher Report is the black licorice of sports Internet websites. Don't feed them pageviews.

No, The Classical is the black licorice of sports Internet websites, because it's unlike anything else out there and is, to some people, unequaled in taste.

Filling out the trend;
-Deadspin is the delicious burger from the shady convenience store, it's [dang] good... but you walk away feeling dirty.

-Grantland is the five-dollar-footlong from Subway, the place where people go for their blog(health) conscious sports opinions because they believe it's the "healthy (credibile) alternative" to...

-ESPN.com, which is the staple burger from any/all of the big chain fast food places. Cheap. Bad for you. Tasty. Reliable.


There are others. What I'm trying to say is that Bleacher Report is, in the aggregate (I'm sure there are good articles working to the formula), the Slim Jim of sportswriting.