What would it take for you to be okay with the C's trading the Brooklyn picks?

[CelticSooner]

no point to trading the picks now.  The only way you're competing with Golden State is if you sign LeBron James + another MVP-level player + two more all-stars - all of which who compliment each other's games beautifully.

Best off just waiting it out.  10 years from now Steph and Durant will be 37.  Klay and Draymond will be 35.  That's when our window will open.  Keep the picks and develop them over the next decade in our competitive also-ran.

10 years? That's a great plan - not! Is that the Philly strategy? I don't have another 10 years to wait 

Basically Philly and 'Sota's ceilings are the only thing standing in the way of an entire decade of dominance.

We also need to hope that modern sports medicine doesn't advance over the next 10 years to the point that Golden State's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse keep playing at high levels into their 40s.

Gotta get lucky over the next two drafts and hope we develop our own superteam organically.

You take hyperbole to a whole new level LarBrd. lol That team will live by 3 and die by the 3. No bench or frontcourt. They need to take less next year to shore that up. Injuries can rear there ugly head as well.

[SHAQATTACK]

Cousins

[max215]

A top 15 player under the age of 27.

This. Cousins, George, Davis, etc.

[Eja117]

A top 15 player under the age of 27.

This

[nickagneta]

Both picks in the same trade:

Lebron
Curry
Durant
Davis
Towns
Kawhi

The 2018 Nets pick only:

Westbrook if he signs an extension
Blake if he signs an extension
George
Cousins
Lillard
Draymond
Thompson
Butler
Aldridge
DeAndre
Drummond
Wiggins
Lowry

The 2017 Nets pick only:

The guys in the category of giving up both picks. Thats it

[Roy H.]

A top 15 player under the age of 27.

Aka, Cousins.

[CoachBo]

I would move Brooklyn 2017 for Cousins.

Tonight.

[mctyson]

Now that Durant joined up with his 3 point friends does it change your thoughts on the future going forward? We basically have 1 legit contender in each conference now. I was all in on possibly trading them to form a 3 headed dragon team but now I lean toward seeing how these picks turn out. Use free agency to try for the big fish.

That is attainable, or anyone that currently is in the league.

If it's the former:  Cousins.  And that's basically it.

Latter:  you can throw in KAT, Davis, etc.

[meangreenmachine]

Both Brooklyn picks and other assets? A superstar, of course. Boogie Cousins is probably the only superstar I can imagine becoming available this year. Paul George is a possibility on draft night if it becomes clear he is leaving Indiana in 2018, but we would have to ensure he re-ups with us. Cannot think of any other superstars signed beyond June 2017 who might be available.

One Brooklyn pick and other assets? A borderline all-star who is young and still growing, and may one day become a superstar. Middleton or Jokic, for example. No reason to believe anybody like that will become available, though.

[SHAQATTACK]

Paul George Ringo

[meangreenmachine]

no point to trading the picks now.  The only way you're competing with Golden State is if you sign LeBron James + another MVP-level player + two more all-stars - all of which who compliment each other's games beautifully.

Best off just waiting it out.  10 years from now Steph and Durant will be 37.  Klay and Draymond will be 35.  That's when our window will open.  Keep the picks and develop them over the next decade in our competitive also-ran.

I think the following roster could possibly take Golden State in 2018, particularly if we are healthy and rested whereas they are tired from having a lackluster bench in the gauntlet that is the Western Conference Playoffs:

Starters: Thomas, Bradley, Hayward, Horford, Cousins

6A/6B: Smart, Crowder

Bench: Brown, 2017 Free Agent C/PF or Olynyk if he shines in 2016-2017, Shelvin Mack, Hunter, Jackson, Yabasule, Zizic, Mickey

That is a really good lineup of starters with possibly the best bench in the league if Brown and Olynyk develop a lot in 2016-2017. We would have the best perimeter defense in the league coupled with the best big man tandem in years. Cousins and Horford would beat down Green. They would have no answer for that big man combo. It would be the best defense against the best offense, and we all know defense wins championships.

[tazzmaniac]

Cousins if done this offseason or Davis.

As LB says, just wait until that GSW team softens a bit. Davis will be a FA in July 2021. See you all again here then... 5 years will fly by.

No. We need to focus on becoming the best in the East.  Make the finals and see what happens.

[Celtic_Pride777]

Boogie please...

It used to be Durant lol  Now it's Boggie

[jpotter33]

Of the potentially available guys, I'd be fine with giving one of them for Butler, Cousins, or Westbrook (if he agreed to an extension or to re-sign with us). Otherwise, it'd have to be a younger All-Star player or one with obvious All-Star potential.

[meangreenmachine]

Cousins if done this offseason or Davis.

As LB says, just wait until that GSW team softens a bit. Davis will be a FA in July 2021. See you all again here then... 5 years will fly by.

No. We need to focus on becoming the best in the East.  Make the finals and see what happens.

Even if we become the perennial runner-ups, that will simply attract people who want to become the MAN who brought down the Evil Empire. Think Paul George in 2018, or Boogie Cousins in 2018, or Kahwi Leonard in 2019, or Kyrie Irving in 2019, or John Wall in 2019, or Nikola Jokic in 2020 if he only does a one year qualifying offer in 2019 to avoid being a RFA in 2020, or maybe Andrew Wiggins in 2020, or Anthony Davis in 2021.