And this is kind of why it's hard to get overly excited about Boston's assets. Yeah, we have a lot of picks and some decent role players, but if a team prefers established talent, there's a lot of ways to outbid our best offer.
You said Danilo isn't that good.
Misrepresenting my opinion again. Classic Ed.
July 8th 2015... I may have been the first person to suggest going after Gallo:
http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=79647.0Nuggets put Gallo on the trade block a couple weeks ago: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/6/24/8843099/danilo-gallinari-trade-rumors-nuggets
Boston needs shooting. Boston needs an upgrade at SF (too many PF's and guards). Ainge loves buy-low candidates. Can't imagine the price will be high. Denver is seemingly building around youth (Mudiay and Nurkic).
Constantly injured, but he's 26 years old and post all-star he put up: 18.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.3 steals on 44%/40%/89% shooting in 24 games. Career 37% shooter from three (when he wasn't in a hospital bed). He did this a couple months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3T7quja1JE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGBjpBMnHVk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyJ5weKuBU
A little after that we learned that Ainge was indeed interested in Gallo. Gallo then became a popular topic on the forum. He then signed an extension preventing him from being traded until this month.
I've never been anti-Gallo. I've mentioned multiple times that getting him would help us incrementally. My previous comments regardling Gallo you are misrepresenting is me relaying what I've heard from multiple sources... which is that Ainge would be unlikely to give up major assets for a guy that would eat into our ability to have double max cap space. This isn't my idea... I've read it in articles and heard it in podcasts. Naturally, you warp that view into "LarBrd doesn't think Gallo is good". Triggered.
That doesn't mean that Gallo isn't a solid borderline star when healthy. He and faried are pretty solid players. My point here was that when superstars (like Blake, for instance) become available, teams don't always target draft picks and prospects... sometimes they target solid players like Gallo and Faried. Some people seem to have this belief around here that because Boston has a gluttony of "assets", it makes us the frontrunner when a star becomes available. It wasn't the case when Kevin Love became available. And my point all along has been... despite having that Brooklyn pick and lots of other middling assets, there's plenty of teams that can outbid us with basketball talent.