Need to tank hard to ensure Simmons comes to Boston.

[cb8883]

I think IT could generate some decent value on the trade market. Sullinger could get back at least a 2nd rounder. Banks  2.0 isn't playing and hasn't been good at all as I predicted early in the season. He will just never have an NBA level jump shot. Olynyk might be able to bring back a late 1st but he's also not good. Turner might be able to generate some interest. The logic behind this is not to focus on the return but focus on the goal of tanking properly in order to get the best player in the draft next year. Double the chance with both the Brooklyn picks and ours.

Simmons is the next LeBron and a once in a generational talent.

[Roy H.]

Indeed. Let's strip our team to the studs for, if we're lucky, the 4th best shot at Simmons.  That would mean a 11.9% chance at winning the lottery. 

Come on, Danny. There's only an 88.1% chance at failure. Blow it up!

[slamtheking]

took a guess who the poster might be before opening the thread and guessed right.  smh

[BDeCosta26]

took a guess who the poster might be before opening the thread and guessed right.  smh

You did? I thought for sure it was gonna be the future Celtics owner. He's always good for a few "Hey, we've lost a couple in a row, now it's time to tank and tank hard for (insert high end prospect here)!" posts.

[esel1000]

Jerry Colangelo may have a problem with this 

[SHAQATTACK]

Wrong blog ....

76 ers = tankers

[dreamgreen]

We already have 1 lottery pick coming our way and there is a chance we don't make the playoffs. But selling off assets for pennies on the dollars for a chance to get better odds in the lottery makes ZERO sense sorry.

[nickagneta]

Some posters are stuck in the NBA2K GM Season mode of selling of assets for draft picks and playing those draft picks into superstars. Real life doesn't work that way, teams like Sactown,  Minny, Philly and even Boston in the past have tanked hard only to lose in the lottery or draft players that didn't amount to much.

Tanking is a serious risk that can induce a losing attitude amongst your players, cause frustration and locker room problems, teaches the young players you draft that losing is more important than winning, can cause good coaches to leave a team or get tuned out by a team, and on top of all that, could lead to nothing more than needing to tank year after year after year if you don't keep tanking.

It will alienate the fan base, lose revenue for your team and others around the league and ultimately will get GMs fired.

Don't understand the need to tank when the Brooklyn picks could conceivably net us 3 straight years of top 5 picks.

[GreenWarrior]

I think everyone should get ben simmons out of their head. no one but the lakers or philly have a shot at him...the lakers will probably get rewarded because the 6ers winning again would just look too much like it's fixed.

[TA9]

I think everyone should get ben simmons out of their head. no one but the lakers or philly have a shot at him...the lakers will probably get rewarded because the 6ers winning again would just look too much like it's fixed.

Remember when the Bulls had a 1.7 percent probability of obtaining the first pick in the 2008 NBA Draft? Anything is possible

[Adelaide Celt]

I think IT could generate some decent value on the trade market. Sullinger could get back at least a 2nd rounder. Banks  2.0 isn't playing and hasn't been good at all as I predicted early in the season. He will just never have an NBA level jump shot. Olynyk might be able to bring back a late 1st but he's also not good. Turner might be able to generate some interest. The logic behind this is not to focus on the return but focus on the goal of tanking properly in order to get the best player in the draft next year. Double the chance with both the Brooklyn picks and ours.

Simmons is the next LeBron and a once in a generational talent.

Same old loser talk. Change the record, you're boring.

[Celtics18]

It's funny that you use the word "ensure" in the thread title.  Obviously, there's no way to even come close to ensuring that Ben Simmons will come to the Celtics.

You should check the lottery odds again.

[hwangjini_1]

Indeed. Let's strip our team to the studs for, if we're lucky, the 4th best shot at Simmons.  That would mean a 11.9% chance at winning the lottery. 

Come on, Danny. There's only an 88.1% chance at failure. Blow it up!

thank you, thank you, thank you for the post. a very simple review of how the draft works shows the inherent fallacy in thinking along these "tank" lines. heck, even being as bad as philly only provides a 25% chance of the first choice.

tp.

[GreenFaith1819]

In dire times like this, I like to utilize the newest Weapon System, straight from the Pentagon by way of Butler University:



This beauty is called the CBS Mark 18 Joint ANTI-TANK weapon, named after its inventor.

It is relatively new. It was first incorporated in the NBA in BOSTON in 2014-15 season. This beautiful, reliable, state of the art weapon system obliterated ANY shot at the team TANKING, and subsequently has produced a SAFE, WINNING culture in BOS.

There are talks about manufacturing MORE of these CBS's and sending some to Philadelphia. With the new management in place, they MAY be more receptive to using this technologically advanced gear.

Jalil Okafor is rumored to be BEGGING for one of these weapons.

[Rosco917]

I think IT could generate some decent value on the trade market. Sullinger could get back at least a 2nd rounder. Banks  2.0 isn't playing and hasn't been good at all as I predicted early in the season. He will just never have an NBA level jump shot. Olynyk might be able to bring back a late 1st but he's also not good. Turner might be able to generate some interest. The logic behind this is not to focus on the return but focus on the goal of tanking properly in order to get the best player in the draft next year. Double the chance with both the Brooklyn picks and ours.

Simmons is the next LeBron and a once in a generational talent.

Makes no sense at all. This isn't fantasy basketball.