I'm starting to really hope we don't get Love.
The more I look in to this the more I realise how much it would cost is to get (and keep) Love in Boston...both in terms of the assets we'd need to give up to acquire him, and in terms of the type of money we'd have to pay to get him to sign an extension.
Kevin Love is a nice player but he's just not worth all of that. He's not a transcendent player - not the type of guy who can transform a lottery team to a good playoff team on his own. Take one look at his own team for complete evidence of that.
It looks like of we wanted Love we'd absolutely HAVE to gone up #6 and #17 from this year's draft, an undetermined number of future first round picks and our own young players (Sully or Olynyk - possibly both).
I'm sorry, but Kevin Love is no LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant or Carmello Anthony. Those guys are all elite players who have, at some point in time, almost single handedly led mediocre teams to some degree of playoff success. These are guys who have are sure things - guys who have proven they can turn a terribly team into a playoff team pretty much overnight.
Love is no such player. There is no such record of success in his past history. He's yet to ever prove himself as a leader, as a clutch scorer, as a guy who will single Handedly will his team to wins the way Wade did with the Heat that before LeBron and Bosh decided to rock up to South beach. Love has proven absolutely nothing in this league aside from his ability to fill up a box score. There are no ex teammates out there talking about how much they love playing with him or how great a leader/worker he is. There are no legendary films showimg off his great playoff battles. There's nothing.
For Boston to get Love it looks like they would have to pretty much sacrifice almost all of their future, leaving them with absolutely no backup plan of this expensive (and highly risky) Love experiment didn't work out.
If you want to watch the Celtics as a lottery team for the next 4 years then by all means bring Love over. If you want to see them actually won something, then pass on him and let this evil temptation pass.