So pumped to be the 8th seed get bounced int he first round, and have an average pick in next years loaded draft!
LOL exactly.
Luckily I'm confident that Danny also sees how un-appealing that scenario is, so unlike gpap I strongly believe we've seen the last of Doc, KG, and Pierce on the Celtics.
I appreciate that Rondo missed a lot of this year, but the team wasn't very good even when he was playing.
I can't help but think people are being kind of arrogant when they say the Celtics would be the 3rd or 4th best team in the East if everybody came back.
Based on the most relevant, recent evidence, the Heat, Pacers, Knicks, and Nets are all better teams than the Celtics, at least in the regular season. Derrick Rose will be back and I'm sure the Bulls will win a ton of games again with him playing, too.
That means the Celtics are at best a 6th seed, and that assumes a team like the Hawks won't bring in a big time free agent (admittedly a relatively safe assumption).