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Good thing Robert Williams was 100% as well…obviously you don’t like the C’s but they are a very good young team that isn’t going anywhere…between Tatum, Brown and Willians you have three players that are not done improving…I would not trade places long term with any team in the NBA with how they are currently built.
Nothing fluky about it. You play who you play. Nearly every team that makes the finals has some sort of injury luck along the way
I don’t care about the Celtics at all, they’ve won 1 title in like 37 years so they’re about as important right now as the Mavericks. Mainly because they won’t actually make the cutthroat moves necessary to take them over the final step and just rely on previous results to determine future outcomes.
Agreed…some people are judging Tatum like he is 30 years old…there is a long list of stars who had some disappointments on the big stage before getting over the top…let’s see how he does the next few years before we hit the panic button…the C’s should be just hitting their prime, no need to make a dramatic move like this for short term gain until we see what Tatum turns into.
I mean yea I’m not an NBA GM but neither are you and I can still tell a cowardly organization that can’t get over the hump when I see one.
You don’t know much about them…they have signed Horford, Hayward and Kemba as free agents and traded for Kyrie (and Brogdon but that is obviously not nearly as big)…not many teams can say they have made that many big moves the past 5 years…it appears they have finally figured it out by being patient with Tatum, Brown, Williams and a few others instead of making foolish short term moves just to please the off-season talk radio crowd.
They earned it, but it was fluky as expecting the second-best player on the defending champs to miss the whole playoffs probably won’t happen again. They’re not better than Milwaukee going into next season.
He's 24. Do you always talk like 24 yo's are at the end of their development cycle?
Replay the first playoff series this year, but with Tatum on Brooklyn and KD on Boston. Have Tatum play like he did for the Celtics and have KD play like he did for the Nets. Nets likely win the series.
No, he’s going to be a good or very good player for a long time. But he’ll never hit the peak KD is at right now, or even really come close.
I think not trading a 24 year old Tatum for a 34 year old Durant is perfectly reasonable for the Celtics, but this is a bonkers take.
Unfortunately the first pick they can trade is now in 2029.
Am I going crazy? Boston has won 1 title since like the Golden Girls came on the air. Who cares what they did 60 years ago.
Flip flopping what each player scored (ie put Tatum on the Nets and Durant on the Celts but keep their point titles), the games would have ended up:
Of course they would. That offer blows the Gobert/Wolves out of the water as is, and that would just be the start of negotiation.
the Celtics outplayed the Nets
Lots of people - if you don’t think people look at Boston and Atlanta differently then I don’t know what to tell you.
Hmmm....idk, toughieTatum is better at social media.
I mean yea they were great in Jim Crow period NBA but they haven’t done a lot lately.
Didn’t they even win a title with KG and Pierce? Other than the Lakers the last team that needs to mortgage the next 10 years to possibly win another title is Boston. I already said if it was straight up I’d think hard about it and probably do it but that package basically means you HAVE to win with Durant and hope he doesn’t get hurt. Neither are guaranteed.
Only the Celtics and the Lakers.
