I like the idea, not so sure where it puts us as a team though? Are we stuck deeper in no man's land or just slowly building with a 28 year old?
The good part of your trade was sending Galinari to Sacto.
I think I'd prefer trading for Gay if we knew we could put a top 4 team in the East out on the floor.
So if we are bringing Gay to Boston, we need to get Lawson here as well as part of this deal.
Lawson shouldn't be too hard to get, and we'd probably get him for James Young or the Clippers pick+ future 2nd rounders.
Gay on the other hand is the hard part. They are probably going to demand at least Olynyk+Bradley so they can put out a Collison, Bradley, Gallinari, Olynyk/Faried, Cousins line up.
Anyway, if we could put out a team like:
Lawson
Smart
Gay
Sullinger
Hibbert/DeAndre etc then we'd probably be a tough 2nd round playoff exit.
Another possibility would be to get Lawson, send Gallinari to the Kings and Gay to the Heat, whilst getting back Miami's #10 pick.
Something like (very rough idea off top my head...so go easy!)
Celtics get:
-Ty Lawson
-Miami 2015 first round pick #10 (we can now trade this up to get someone we are set on ie: Heznoja, Porzingis)
-Nick Stauskas
Nuggets get:
-Avery Bradley
-Olynyk
Miami get:
-Rudy Gay
-Celtics 2015 pick #16
-Evan Turner
Kings get:
-Gallinari
-Miami 2016 first round pick
-Clippers 2015 pick #24
we then trot out:
-Lawson
-Smart
-Khris Middleton or 2015 Miami pick (Heznoja?)
-Sullinger or 2015 Miami Pick (Porzingris?)
-Hibbert/DeAndre/Robin Lopez etc (insert random free agent center here).
I don't mind Rudy Gay, and I think he's gotten much better since leaving Toronto. However I think it's funny that people don't mind paying Rudy Gay $14 million at 28 years old yet scoff at paying Khris Middleton $16 million at 23 years old like we are putting ourselves in financial jeopardy with a $108 million cap.