re: Celtics may trade out of #1?

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the celtics continuing to accumulate draft assets is concerning if you squint into the future
all the talk is about Hayward/butler/George but the real prize is Anthony Davis

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I mean if people think Butler takes Brown, #3, plus future first. What the hell would Davis cost? Brown, Thomas, #3, Nets 18? Even if you could get a $1.10 back on the Davis dollar, you still lost the trade in today's NBA. If Demps screwed up so bad that he has to trade Davis with three freaking years left on his deal (4th PO), then he should in no way get to oversee the rebuild. And these assets don't amount to as much potentially in a year. You expect BKN and LAL to top 5 suck now. There's not much further those teams can sink. God forbid LAL isn't as bad or the ping pong balls fall wrong, Bostons assets are de-valued. They want to flip now, not wait another year.

TL:DR - Demps is still employed. No way. We haven't even seen the Boogie/Brow experiment. Nope. Makes zero sense for either team to wait another year. If you're entertaining AD, you bottom out and mortgage the farm and trade Cousins while you have him too.