re: Celtics may trade out of #1?

I mean the celtics embarrassment of riches was based off of the incompetency of the Nets' organization.

The reason the pelicans don't have an embarrassment of riches in picks is that we are sellers and not buyers. The model of team building Dell has adopted was to go after young veterans (players right out of their rookie deals). I'm very critical of this method because he used many draft picks (cheap contracts) to acquire them (Holiday, Asik).

If finally paid off when he found an incompetent GM (enter Vlade Divac) who would give up so little for a superstar. There are a lot of times I think "Demps should have done this or that", but the caveat is that if any little detail goes differently, we wouldn't have had the pieces to make the Cousins trade happen.