Houston receives:Brandon Bass
Courtney Lee
Vitor Faverani
2015 Clippers pick
Cleveland Receives:Jeff Green
D Montejunas
Jordan Crawford
Boston receives:Omer Asik
Dion Waiters
Alonzo Gree
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=lumpnxr*Houston gets Faverani as a cheap back up for D Howard whilst getting Lee and Bass. If we really have to, we give them a future 2nd rounder. (or if Cleveland demands it).
*Cleveland finally gets a decent small forward in Green,
They get Crawford to play the combo guard spot like Waiters did as they make a push for the playoffs.
*Boston gets Asik to man the middle, and we also get Waiters as a solid young prospect.
This most likely falls over because Cleveland won't give up Waiters for Green- but that's about as much as they'll ever get for him and they need a scorer. Getting Crawford is a great replacement for Waiters and they can put Bennett at the PF position and interchange Green and Bennett in small ball line ups.
Celtics line up.
Rondo
Waiters
Gee
Sully
Asik
Avery is possibly gone this offseason- or we are looking at around at least 6 million a year for his work.... and Waiters is locked up at 3 million for 3 seasons. With Stevens as his coach, waiters would be in excellent hands and there wouldn't be any bickering with another scoring guard like in Cleveland.
Ron Adams will work with Waiters on his shot and hopefully he becomes the next Dywane Wade as he's shown glimpes of.
We get slightly worse on offense losing Green and Crawford but our defense is solid, while Sully moves back to the PF position.
Probably lose a few more games with this roster because of the scoring problems but we then have picks for the next 3 years to find a decent small forward and we have free agency options.
Gee is young and doesn't cost anything, but he's not really starter material so he's here for another season as a back up small forward while we wait for that star player.