With some players outperforming expectations and a horribly bad Eastern conference, Boston could be heading right where they don't want to be and that's a low playoff seed and a late lotto pick.

I can almost guarantee the moves Danny Ainge makes will be to improve the team in the future and remove some immidiet help for draft picks, young players, ect.

I'll try and break it down into tiers and for arguments sake, these are just my opinions so let's not try and dispute where I place the players, but rather find some deals. With teams hitting the quarter mark injuries are happening and teams are settling in a tad.

So here we go,

Tier #1 (Best trade chip would need no-brainer deal to be moved before this summer)
-Rajon Rondo

Tier #2 (Young(ish) players unlikely to be dealt)
-Jared Sullinger
-Kelly Olynyk
-Vitor Favarani
-Avery Bradley (could be placed in Tier 3 despite being only 22)
-Jeff Green (could be placed in Tier 3 but I feel Ainge values him highly)

Tier #3 (Useful veterans who could help contending teams/most likely to be dealt)
-Brandon Bass
-Courtney Lee
-Kris Humphries
-Jordan Crawford

Tier #4 (Unlikely to be dealt due to unknown/low trade value)
-Phil Pressey
-Marshaun Brooks

Tier #5 (Negative trade value)
-Gerald Wallace

So you get the idea. Trades that possibly cause more losses than wins this season, but help the future of the team. Examples I've seen on various message boards recently include Brandon Bass for Meyers Leonard, Jeff Green/filler for MKG.

Fire away! Ideas or positive responses get TP's and thanks for playing