One of the dumbest things I have ever read. Just amazing.

[NT!]

SI link - Ian Thompsen on the Blazers getting Oden

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The Boston Celtics can claim they are cursed after tumbling in the lottery for the second time in a decade. But the truth, confirmed yet again by Tuesday's miserable result, is that they never should have traded for Sebastian Telfair.

That deal on draft day last year sent the eventual rights to Brandon Roy onto Portland. Consider the ensuing chain of events. Roy became the Rookie of the Year who helped the Trail Blazers win a surprising 32 games this season, earning them the No. 6 position going into the lottery -- which in turn earned them the No. 1 pick overall. Would the Blazers have won as many as 32 games with Telfair on their roster instead of Roy? The answer is a solid NO. It can now be said that the acquisition of Roy, more than any other move, helped bring Greg Oden to Portland.

Now consider how the Celtics (who went 24-58 for the second-worst record in the league) must feel about that trade, which was already the most lopsided deal of the past year before its hidden impact on the lottery was known. Imagine if the Celtics had retained their No. 7 pick and used it on Roy. They surely would have won a few more games thanks to the Rookie of the Year (who averaged a versatile 16.8 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.0 assists in the tougher Western Conference). And with the benefit of a better roster, the Celtics might have been less inclined to improve their lottery position and thus might have been trying to win a few more games after the All-Star break.

To put it bluntly, might the Celtics have won the requisite 32 games with Roy on their side instead of Telfair -- and would they today thus be celebrating the arrival of Oden? That one is obviously a harder case to make, but the fans in Boston will not be blamed for debating all of the cosmic possibilities as they consider bleakly where their Celtics go from here.

Am I saying that the Celtics somehow should have had the foresight to avoid the Roy trade in order to position themselves for Oden? Of course not. All I'm saying is that a bad trade looks even worse now, given the extent to which it helped the Blazers.

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[Spellmen]

That's dumb, not quite as bad as the Celts trading for Telfair, but still dumb

[LBJ]

No this may be worse than the trade itself. This is honestly the most unthoughtout article I've read in a long, long time. Wow.

[NT!]

i had to go back and reread it a few times to make sure he was saying what he is saying

[Bremen]

I wonder if he plays poker...

[Triumph36]

man when 9 comes up in roulette and i don't have money on it i think to myself - why the hell didn't i bet on 9?

Am i alone here?

[ProfessorBen]

STARS SCREEN NAME PLZ.

[kyleb]

I mean that's dumb, but trading for Telfair = LOL

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I mean that's dumb, but trading for Telfair = LOL

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perhaps the celts were hoping that if a really bad player died of a cocaine overdose it would somehow reverse the len bias curse.

[kyleb]

well that reasoning makes at least some sense