If they want to unload Gasol, I'd be happy to take him on the Celts.
I am getting sick and tired of seeing us blow large leads in games.
Would you trade Wallace + Humph + our two 2014 1st rounders (currently projected #15 and #20) for Gasol?
He might, but it would be quite a surprise if Danny would.
Lol! Exactly!
Think about it a little more. Let's assume the #15 and #20 picks amount to Fab Melo and JR Giddens.
Wallace (3 years 10 mil)
Humph (12 mil expiring)
for
Pau (22 mil expiring)
That's kind of a heist for Boston. Turns them into a competent playoff team this year. Drops Wallace off the books. We'd have 20 million in cap space this offseason in which players like Melo and LeBron may be looking for new homes.
Is it worth sacrificing a couple scratch tickets?
Btw, Lakers wouldn't do it for the same reason we WOULD do it. Gerald Wallace is on the books until 2016. A couple "bleh" draft picks (15-25 range) isn't worth sacrificing their cap space. If they let Pau expire, they'll have enough to bring in LeBron this summer. They also have a ton of cap space lined up for 2015 where Kevin Love is surely going to fulfill his destiny and come home to his beloved Lakers.
But imagine if it was Sully and Bradley and not Fab and JR.
Sure...and that's why the scratch tickets have value. Enough so that maybe the lakers would be willing to take a complete cap killer (Wallace) off our hands.
Jim Buss isn't he best owner ever but I am pretty sure he isn't an utter and complete idiot.
So you're kinda contradicting yourself here. Lol.
On one hand, you're saying that Buss would be an utter and complete idiot to take Wallace off our hands + two late 2014 picks. On the other hand, you're it would "the worst trade ever" for the Celtics to give up two late 2014 picks in order to get Wallace off our hands.
Make up your mind. It can't be "the worst trade ever" for both teams.
Actually yes, it can be the worst trade ever for both teams and yes Buss would be an idoot to take the trade while it would be the worst trade ever for Boston.
Two things can contradict each other in a person's mind and still be true.
Buss has allowed Kupchak to have a strategy of clearing cap space for the ability to sign a top of the talent pool free agent either last year, this year, next year or the year after. The strategy for LA has been pretty clear and that is to sign Kobe and try to get him his another ring and to do it by adding one of the best players in the league to Kobe. They almost did it with Howard. Since that did not work out it is probably in the plans to do it in the near future with Lebron, Melo, Love or another top 10 player. Or more than one.
Taking on a large contract like Wallace at the cost of two 1st round picks flies in the face of this strategy and makes zero sense after carefully cultivating this for years and already proceeding forward with it by giving Kobe a $40+ million contract for the next two years.
It would be the worst trade ever for the Celtics for much the same reasoning. Danny Ainge's strategy is to build through the draft, adding young assets and then possibly maneuvering those assets for ready to contend assets is they aren't ready to contend in a time situation he is happy with.
To take two of those assets and trade them away for simply dumping a $10 million per year contract is foolish especially if it means only getting a possibly over the hill, malcontent PF that will be gone in 4 months and who's addition make make another of his assets less valuable. The smart play is to wait a year of two and see if he can unload Wallace for a lot less or simply let his contract expire sometime in the future while keeping, quite possibly, the most important assets he currently has, 1st round draft picks in the future that could turn into top 2-3 picks.
So you see. It can be both things even though you see them as contradictory. Until one can prove beyond a doubt that two things are contradictory in an objective review, then in a subjective opinionated look at things, they can still both exist.
