Celtics Trade KG and Pierce…..ML Carr Getting Ready To Put Back On Coaching Shoes

ESPN - Kevin Garnett has agreed to waive his no-trade clause, clinching an agreement on a trade that will land Paul Pierce, Garnett and Jason Terry with the Brooklyn Nets, sources close to the process told ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard on Thursday night. No trade between the teams can officially be consummated until July 10 — when a league-wide moratorium on signings and trades is lifted after free agency begins Monday — but the teams made fast progress on finalizing the trade parameters. Brooklyn has agreed to send three first-round picks (2014, ’16 and ’18) along with Kris Humphries’ expiring contract, Gerald Wallace, Kris Joseph, MarShon Brooks and a sign-and-traded Keith Bogans to the Celtics for Pierce, Garnett and Terry, a source told Broussard.

So it’s official. Danny Ainge has blown the Celtics the fuck up. Paul Pierce gone. KG gone. All we got in return was Kim Kardashian’s ex husband and a bunch of draft picks. It’s clear the Celtics are once again making a run at the #1 pick in the draft. Am I mad about it? Not really. I mean sure I’m sad to see those two go, but we obviously weren’t winning anything with them anymore. They are both still automatic Hall of Famers. Paul Pierce’s number will be retired to the rafters and he’ll go down as one of the great Celtics of all time. I’m not sure whether KG gets his number retired here? Different question for a different day I suppose.

Either way you can’t expect either of them to stick around when the team has openly quit trying to win. You got to figure Rondo is next to go. No point in having a great PG when you’re trying to lose games. The decision was clearly made that the best path moving forward for the Celtics was to tank the next couple seasons. People always say you got to be horrible before you can be good in the NBA. I’m not sure I believe that because the Heat were never awful, San Antonio hasn’t been bad in forever, LA has never been that bad, but I guess if you don’t think you can lure big free agents to come to Boston then the draft is the way to do it. Just seems like a huge risk to put in ping pong balls. But it is what it is I suppose. ML Carr city.  And yes I will be rooting for Brooklyn when they play the Celtics next year.   Any real Celtics fan would do the same. These guys were the heart of our team.  I wish them nothing but the best with the Nets.