If you're a Celtics fan you probably know about the picks Brooklyn owe us & regularly check the mock drafts & watch college ball like me, just to know the next superstar we will be drafting thanks to the them. Right?
Okay looking at it lately I've found that the best players in this year's draft are mostly perimeter players.
Out of the top 10 there are just two big men: Giles & Markannen, the rest are guards (Fultz, Ball, Smith Jr, Monk, Fox) & small forwards (Tatum, Jackson, Isaac, Bridges).
While Giles is totally worth a top 5 pick, his injury history is just too long to use it on a player who might be Greg Oden 2.0. Markkannen meanwhile as good as he is, is not a top 5 pick.
So after review we're left with players we won't play much if drafted because we already have established veterans with not-so much trade value
As much as keeping the pick is a nice idea, we'd better trade it because other teams will know that if we draft a player playing a position we already have established players there, we'll be obligated to make trades afterwards & they won't give much knowing so.
To sum it up a trade, especially a trade down is the best idea as there's no star on the market nor is anyone out there worth the nets pick.
Philly is an ideal trade partner; they have young talent, a top 10 pick via LAL & are rebuilding.
The trade here is the Nets pick for Okafor, #10 & Hollis Thompson. We'll have to include Zeller & Rozier/Green to make it work for the player's numbers, Amir is an option too.
Why it works: We'll have little to no use of the players we'll get at #3 so we trade down pick up another lottery pick & a more useful player. Philly does it because getting two of the top 3 players in the most loaded draft is a dream scenario.
The beauty of this trade is that we can even do it at deadline & not wait till the draft.
Thoughts?