With the way the league is set up right now with Lebron making a case for the draft makes a lot of sense. GEtting Durant isn't necessarily going to beat Lebron. We got one last time with KG but Kobe still got more. Lebron has about a 5 year window left where we could develop someone.
I agree with Ainge that his theory is getting a guy like KG when he missed on Durant and is now trying to get Durant in his prime vs developing him and losing him. That's his line of thinking most likely. But what's the difference if we can keep him.
We had KG, we now try to get Durant and try to beat Lebron with him much like we did with Kobe. But it's still not better than drafting our own guy in ways if we can keep him.
Is Durant, Butler and Isaiah better than what we had in Pierce, KG and Ray? I don't think that is. Maybe Boogie.
There are two sides of the fence here. Two ways we can go. We are doing an awful lot in hopes we can beat Lebron in the next 5 years.