The wild overvaluing of the third pick in a two person draft - and pretty much every other Celtic asset no one wants - is one of my favorite laughs from this board.
Ought to rename it Comedy Central.
That comment would have been received better a few days ago.
About a week ago, Noel was rumored to be going WITH pieces to Atlanta for Teauge, who last night was traded for a late lottery pick. In the past 24 hours weve seen it reported that we have standing offers of Noel and Okafor for 3, and just now, a solid but unspectacular player on a good contract was just traded for the 20th pick in the draft basically suggesting that draft picks have good value. Now, Givony from DX, who I trust a decent amount has also tweeted that Noels value lies in that of a late lotter pick. Furthermore everyone is talking about how from 3-8 no one knows whatll happen which devalues pick 3 a bit, but it also means that there is a seperate 3-8 tier far more valuable than the 9-whatever tier which Noel seems to be valued in.
Basically, everything weve seen suggests that the 3rd pick in a 2-player draft is in fact pretty valuable.
I refer mostly to the inane comments in these threads suggesting that neither Noel and Okafor are worth a lottery pick. That is jump-the-shark style ridiculous.
And it shocks me not to see questionable sources suddenly trusted - when they tell you what you want to hear.
Either make the Celtics significantly better than they are at the moment, and refusal to trade the 3 for one of them is the kind of neanderthal thinking that will keep this franchise mired in mediocrity forever.
The draft is hardly the be-all and end-all of how the Celtics get better, and statements like the above remind me of the ill-informed tantrums thrown here when Al Jefferson, along with a bag of Ainge's trash, were traded for Kevin Garnett.
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