Re: The Official NBA Regular Season 07-08 Thread
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Do you really believe this?
Big Al is a max player within a year anyway, so it's not like Minne got a bargain of a contract or anything.
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Big Al is a max player 10 years younger than KG. Green, while I think he's a tool, certainly has potential. 2 firsts have value (though it's marginal given Boston's expected pick range, but every now and then one drafts a Rondo in that range).
Let me put it like this: if Ainge played hardball, I don't see how Minnesota wouldn't have been literally forced to take the same deal sans picks and sans Gomes (who is worthless to Minny, but would've been very valuable to Boston).
If I was a Boston fan, I wouldn't have wanted to trade Jefferson for KG straight up, and I think that ultimately, Minnesota would've accepted exactly that. But, we've had this discussion and there's really no reason to get into it again.
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