1) Franchise cornerstones don't move around in free agency all too often. More often than not, teams either re-sign them or trade them.
2) Look back at Boston's history, they don't really sign great players in FA. They either draft them (Bird, Parish, Pierce, Rondo) or trade for them (Garnett, Allen). It's been that way for 30 years. I think they'll use that cap room to overpay for a Bismack Biyombo or Chandler Parsons.
3) Boston's best route to a contender is the draft, but as we've established Ainge sucks at drafting.
4) As good as the Celtics are, they don't really have assets other teams value. And the only players other teams want like Crowder or Bradley, Ainge is unwilling to let go of them.
You sound like a hater.
This whole thing about Danny being a terrible drafter in not correct, he's had some very good finds. He's drafted rondo, Jefferson, Bradley, Perkins, tony Allen, delonte west, Gerald green, Jared sullinger, Kelly olynyk, terry rozier, Jordan Mickey, Marcus smart, RJ Hunter, Ryan Gomes, Leon powe, and big baby... I'm sure I missed someone too, so for every "awful" pick I can name you three that worked out.
To act like the Celtics don't have assets aside from the Brooklyn pick is incorrect as well. Please don't tell me the Celtics couldn't get something for olynyk, a 7 foot 3 point shooter that played big minutes on a top 5 defense and didn't embarrass himself.
People want smart, but Danny sees his potential and probably values him more than most
No one wants Isaiah Thomas, an all star making 6 million a year?
Danny also did say earlier this month that teams were calling about rozier and mickey
We have the opportunity to develop players the right way (not bringing in top 5 picks to a losing environment) with a great coaching staff and front office. We have the Brooklyn pick two more years and they are the favorite for the worst pick in the best draft this decade by a mile. They traded Thaddeus young for injury prone caris levert, I get why they did it, but that certainly doesn't make them better this year.
We have Bradley, crowder, and Thomas as 3 of the best 10 bargain contracts in the entire league.
As far as jaylen brown, I'd be willing to bet we will be having a much different conversation about him once summer league gets going.
All our other picks were good, fukk the haters.
And oh yeah, we got an interview scheduled with Kevin Durant, and we are the only team out of the 6 that can tell him we can sign one other max guy.
