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May 22nd, 2007 Boston Slips to 5

Tuesday night’s NBA Draft Lottery was absolutely shocking. There was a 1/155 (0.6%) chance that the worst 3 teams would all slip out of the top 3 in the lottery, and it happened. Unfortunately, our beloved Boston Celtics were one of those teams, slipping from 2 to 5. The Celtics own the 5th pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, after a devastating night that echoed flashbacks of 1997 (where we saw Tim Duncan slip out of our hands), except this time it’s worse. There were two franchise talents (Greg Oden and Kevin Durant) that slipped away and the Celtics dropped to the worst possible outcome at 5.

What does this mean for the Celtics? In my opinion, it means that the Celtics are absolutely the most desperate team in the league this summer. I think that if the Celtics can’t package this pick with Theo Ratliff’s contract and extra pieces for an All-Star caliber veteran, Paul Pierce will be gone by the trade deadline. That also, in my opinion, would be best for both the organization and Paul Pierce (if we can’t get ourselves a veteran All-Star this summer).

After the lottery, Danny Ainge appeared on FSN. Greg Dickerson asked Ainge if he would be the aggressor in trade talks this summer, and Ainge said that he would. Danny knows what he has to do this summer, and that is acquire a guy like Pau Gasol, Jermaine O’Neal, or a long shot in Kevin Garnett. If that does not happen, Paul Pierce won’t be wearing green and white for much longer, and that would be best for both worlds.

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One Response to “Boston Slips to 5”

  1. Tim Savage Says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 1:25 am

    Absolutely agree. The Celtics only have two options right now; package the pick and Ratcliff’s contract and a couple of youngsters for a star player, or dump Pierce for some expiring contracts and as many future draft picks as they can and wait around to see if they can get lucky and get a new franchise player or two down the road. If Danny just sits back and picks another raw, young guy to add to our current collection, he deserves to be fired.

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