What is Danny's Best Move After the Trade with Brooklyn?

[Koufax]

Its really hard to choose, but for me the answer is the swap with Philadelphia and the draft of Jayson Tatum. I believe that Jason's best comp right now is Paul Pierce but he might be better and ascend into Larry Bird territory. Getting another first round draft pick as part of the package is unreal.

My number 2 would be the hiring of Brad Stevens, but we don't get two choices in this poll. What's your number 1, and why?

 

[Ale Xander]

Other options

1) Trading Doc Rivers for 1st round pick (even if pick turned into RJ Hunter)
2) NOT trading up for Justice Winslow and staying put and drafting Terry Rozier

 

[wade boggs chicken dinner]

Get Brad Stevens since that gave him some chips to work with and also netted him GH.

I think the Tatum move is great but since DA would have taken JT at #1, it's not the best deal. Unless the Cs somehow end up with #2 next year.

KI is #2 for me.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

Without Brad Stevens, I'm not sure a lot of those deals/acquisitions even happen so I voted for Brad Stevens.

 

[luckiestman]

It has to be Brown and I like Tatum more than Brown.

Brown could be really really good and that was an outside of the box pick at the time.

Danny was going to get Tatum, getting an extra pick was cool so if that works ok, maybe that’s the best move.

Kyrie wanted out and to go to a good team, there was no magic there but it was a good move.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Signing Horford. Al was the first big time FA signing for the Celts in forever, when most pundits were still saying that these guys don't go to Boston. He's also become the glue of this team and the leader on the floor.

 

[Reverend]

I honestly have trouble parsing out individual moves in what I see as a larger, apparently masterful campaign.

I don't know which is my favorite brush stroke on Starry Night either. But these moves seem so... integrated. And we've seen what an integrated unit the team is, with all the pieces they need for any specific task... this is a whole plaaaaaan, maaaaaaan.

 

[Manzivino]

Where is “Traded Jeff Green in 2015 for the #1 overall pick in 2021”?

 

[AimingForYoko]

Signing Horford. Al was the first big time FA signing for the Celts in forever, when most pundits were still saying that these guys don't go to Boston. He's also become the glue of this team and the leader on the floor.

This is hard but I kind of agree with this. I couldn't pick a better dude for our young guys to grow with. Everyone talks about our dudes having poise but I think a lot of that all stems from Horford.

Not trading for Winslow is also up there.

 

[luckiestman]

Signing Horford. Al was the first big time FA signing for the Celts in forever, when most pundits were still saying that these guys don't go to Boston. He's also become the glue of this team and the leader on the floor.

I see this line of reasoning but the reason I don’t rank it 1 is because there is no surprise. Al had other suitors, so getting him was a great accomplishment but I didn’t take anything special in terms of guile. I think taking Brown was a gutsier move that not everyone makes.

 

[Moosey]

We have Brad, and you don't.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Giving up baseball

 

[scottyno]

Signing Horford. Al was the first big time FA signing for the Celts in forever, when most pundits were still saying that these guys don't go to Boston. He's also become the glue of this team and the leader on the floor.

I didn't pick this, but I think you can make a good case, especially when you consider the other options they could have signed instead.

Whiteside, Howard, Noah, Biyombo, Mahinmi, and Mosgov were the other top bigs in free agency and all of them signed deals that now range from bad to disastrous for their teams.

Replace Al with any of those guys and this team doesn't come close to getting out of the first round.

 

[Sprowl]

Getting 1.6 years of Peak Izayer for a low first round pick, and then converting damaged goods into Kyrie Eleison is the stuff of genius, even in the exalted company of Red Auerbach. More than Stevens, more than Ainge, Izayer really put the Celtics back on the map.

 

[Spelunker]

Getting 1.6 years of Peak Izayer for a low first round pick, and then converting damaged goods into Kyrie Eleison is the stuff of genius, even in the exalted company of Red Auerbach. More than Stevens, more than Ainge, Izayer really put the Celtics back on the map.

I don't think Izayer would have put anything back on any map if he weren't playing for Stevens.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Convincing the world he didn't exist

 

[tims4wins]

Obviously Brad is getting a lot of well-deserved love here - I voted for that move too - but drafting Jaylen Brown might have been the least obvious, most important move relative to the rest. Signing Horford was obvious. Signing Hayward was obvious. Trading for Kyrie was great, and he clearly played Philly with the Tatum trade. But drafting Jaylen was something that probably not 10 or 20% of the fanbase liked at the time and it was just an incredible pick.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

I voted Brad, but for what it’s worth I still put one older move, acquiring Garnett at the top of the list. He somehow got the best player for less than competing offers...and it led directly to more top flight players and a championship. Brought the franchise off the mat to top tier relevance.

 

[moondog80]

2) NOT trading up for Justice Winslow and staying put and drafting Terry Rozier

It's true that Rozier by himself is better than Winslow, but I still don't believe the story that they offered #16 + unprotected Brooklyn pick + other unprotected first round picks to try and get Winslow.

In 2016, the 13th and 28th pick were traded for the 8th pick.
In 2017, the 15th and 20th pick were traded for the 10th pick.

Those are the types of trades that are made to move up at that point in the draft. The rumored offer is so far beyond either of those that it just isn't credible that a) the Celtics would offer it, and b) it would get turned down. The fact that the story was an offer of 6 picks is the tell -- it was the 16th pick plus a bunch of crap (the 28th pick, a bunch of 2nd rounders, and the Brooklyn pick with such heavy protections that it was essentially another 2nd round pick).

 

[Gash Prex]

Brad - if they don’t get him, The team doesn’t become a destination for a FA, including Horford, which set in motion the series of other moves.

 

[begranter]

I voted Brad, but for what it’s worth I still put one older move, acquiring Garnett at the top of the list. He somehow got the best player for less than competing offers...and it led directly to more top flight players and a championship. Brought the franchise off the mat to top tier relevance.

I was going to say something similar, along the lines of until further notice it's gotta be the Garnett move, but then I re-read the poll and I believe the title is meant to reference Post-Brooklyn trade rather than 2nd to the Brooklyn trade since it's talking about recent moves.

That said, while the Tatum pick/Philly trade was shrewd as can be, the Brown pick is being underrated here and strikes me as the most transformative long-term, and gets my vote accordingly.

 

[bankshot1]

Best move?

Ironically, when Ainge befuddled 5 leprechauns at the same time.

 

[bankshot1]

Maybe having the foresight to see Stevens was the right guy to coach, teach and help shape a team that was starting a total rebuild,.

 

[SoxJox]

I'll abstain from voting and remain satisfied to bask in the cornucopia of goodness and blessings.

But if forced, I'd pick Stevens, because I believe there are so many unnoticed and unnoticeable second and third order effects that it may be fully impossible to measure just what he means to the team - whatever its makeup - and the organization. And because he is not out on the floor for us to se his "running, shooting, and passing" abilities - we may never know.

 

[JCizzle]

I wonder how strongly Danny was pushing to trade for Paul George before OKC swooped in and nabbed him. If I remember correctly, it was just a timing thing where we couldn't trade for anyone until Hayward made his decision. Assuming Danny would have offered the same deal for PG that got us Kyrie, I think it's another situation where we got pretty lucky by waiting things out.

 

[InstaFace]

Giving up baseball

Good.

Convincing the world he didn't exist

Better.

I voted Brad, but for what it’s worth I still put one older move, acquiring Garnett at the top of the list. He somehow got the best player for less than competing offers...and it led directly to more top flight players and a championship. Brought the franchise off the mat to top tier relevance.

Best. I don't know how you can ask this without remembering...

 

[Bergs]

Giving up baseball

 

[mauf]

I voted for drafting Tatum — not so much because he extracted an extra lottery pick from the Sixers, but because he had the insight to recognize that Tatum would become a better NBA player than Fultz or Ball, which was not at all clear to most people (including me).

 

[Van Everyman]

Are any of these moves were discussing really better than this one?

 

[scottyno]

I wonder how strongly Danny was pushing to trade for Paul George before OKC swooped in and nabbed him. If I remember correctly, it was just a timing thing where we couldn't trade for anyone until Hayward made his decision. Assuming Danny would have offered the same deal for PG that got us Kyrie, I think it's another situation where we got pretty lucky by waiting things out.

I don't think he gives up the brooklyn pick+ for a pure rental, especially after all the talk about him going to LA came out.

 

[mikeot]

Brad. Tatum a close second.

 

[lovegtm]

Brad. Tatum a close second.

Agree: Brad increases the value of all the other moves dramatically. He also got them Horford and Hayward for just cap space, which is crazy.

 

[The Gray Eagle]

Are any of these moves were discussing really better than this one?

Yeah, Ainge's best move was biting Tree Rollins's finger.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

Do you remember when people in this town called him “Danny Panic”?

 

[Eddie Jurak]

Yeah, Ainge's best move was biting Tree Rollins's finger.

For the record, Ainge never bit Tree Rollins' finger. Rollins bit Ainge, leading to the famous Boston Herald headline "Tree Bites Man".

I have no idea why the story is remembered as Ainge doing the biting.

 

[The Gray Eagle]

For the record, Ainge never bit Tree Rollins' finger. Rollins bit Ainge, leading to the famous Boston Herald headline "Tree Bites Man".

I have no idea why the story is remembered as Ainge doing the biting.

Yeah, that’s the joke.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

For the record, Ainge never bit Tree Rollins' finger. Rollins bit Ainge, leading to the famous Boston Herald headline "Tree Bites Man".

I have no idea why the story is remembered as Ainge doing the biting.

Since the start of the playoffs, I have had to explain to three different people in three different place that Ainge was the bitee and not the biter. And then went to this image for proof.

https://goo.gl/images/Lq7rds