Offseason Trades Boston Celtics Should Already Be Considering Rajon Rondos pipe dreams of a six-game win streak and the postseason aside, the Boston Celtics have to start thinking about the offseason as soon as possible. With that offseason will come another chance for Danny Ainge to rebuild his team through trades that maybe werent available before the recent deadline. With the NBA draft view more clear, and the pool of projected picks nearly solidified, teams will be more willing to more forward with deals. Everyone will be planning for the future this summer instead of holding out hope of a playoff run in a couple months. As weve learned over the past handful of years, Ainge is a big proponent of using the offseason to do his dealings. The obvious examples being 2007 and 2013, which were, in very different ways, sizable victories for the Celtics. The question now is whether the summer of 2014 will resemble either of those winning summers, or will it simply be a another straightaway on a long journey back from the lottery. If youve been following along with the trajectory of the Boston Celtics since the 2013 NBA draft, it has been eerily similar to 2007. The 2006-07 squad finished 24-58, (Boston is currently 20-39) with their best player missing half the season. Fans were nervous Paul Pierce would be asking to leave after that year, as some fans are nervous Rajon Rondo wont return following free agency next summer. Danny Ainge had been acquiring assets leading up to that summer, in a similar manner to how he has conducted himself over the past nine months. All of this is similar, but the creepy tipping point is a rumor started straight from the source. A Minnesota Timberwolves superstar in rumors with Boston. Over All-Star weekend, The Boston Globes Gary Washburn extracted this quote from Kevin Love: Boston is a great city. I’m sure free agents would love to go there, especially with [Brad] Stevens as a coach. He’s a guy that can win basketball games. He gets guys to play for him. They’ve been having good success there, even in his first year, and he has a lot of young players. The coach has a lot to do with it, but yeah, Boston is a great place.” While certainly a bit of playing to the reporter, who happened to be from that areas most respected newspaper, coupled with all these other similarities, this becomes a solid rumor. Love can become a free agent after 2014-15 and long ago stated his desire to play for a winner. Already, several teams are looking at Minnesota to see what happens and whether hell become available.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:42:50 +0000
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