Which Teams Will Rebuild?

[theprunetang]

The problem is that Boston has swap rights on their 2017 first round pick and Boston outright owns their 2018 first round pick. So blowing it up is pretty unappetizing for them, since they won't reap any draft benefits from it for the next two seasons.

Honestly, this might be the worst trade in NBA history:

Boston gives up: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry, D.J. White, 2017 conditional second round pick
New Jersey gives up: Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Kris Joseph, Keith Bogans, 2014 first round pick, 2016 first round pick, Celtics' option to swap 2017 first round picks with Nets, 2018 first round pick

If Boston builds a juggernaut, the Nets will have a huge hand in it.

Plus they basically gave us Lillard for the right to trade Gerald Henderson in that terrible trade.

 

[BonesJones]

The problem is that Boston has swap rights on their 2017 first round pick and Boston outright owns their 2018 first round pick. So blowing it up is pretty unappetizing for them, since they won't reap any draft benefits from it for the next two seasons.

Honestly, this might be the worst trade in NBA history:

Boston gives up: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry, D.J. White, 2017 conditional second round pick
New Jersey gives up: Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Kris Joseph, Keith Bogans, 2014 first round pick, 2016 first round pick, Celtics' option to swap 2017 first round picks with Nets, 2018 first round pick

If Boston builds a juggernaut, the Nets will have a huge hand in it.

The fact that they didn't protect any of their picks is what makes it so bad.

 

[Chris Craig]

They don't have a draft pick

I know...my thought was they suck so bad they can't win enough games not to tank it, regardless of not having a pick

 

[Boob-No-More]

The fact that they didn't protect any of their picks is what makes it so bad.

I'm sure you know that when Neil Olshey was with the Clippers he neglected to put any protection on the 1st round pick that he sent to the Cavs with Baron Davis for Mo Williams and Jamario Moon. At the time, the Clippers were expected to have a pick around the middle of the first round, but they ended up with some injuries and ended up with the 8th worst record in the league and ended up defying odds and "winning" the lottery, for Cleveland, which the Cavs used to select Kyrie Irving.

It was a salary dump by the Clippers at the trade deadline, and CLE got to double down on their good fortune, when the NBA added the amnesty provision to the new CBA the following summer, which the Cavs promptly used on Baron Davis.

Point being, I'm glad Neil learned that lesson at the Clippers' expense and not ours, and apparently he has. The top 55 protection he put on the 2nd round pick we sent to ORL for Mo Harkless took protecting a draft pick to new level.

BNM

 

[PDXFonz]

Austins D League team "The Million Dollar Men" are constantly on the rebuild. The GM believes they can be made better, stronger, faster.