Tossing batting practice….while figuratively shaking the commissioner’s hand and trying on my new Sonics hat.

I’m not sure whether to be happy for Presti, because he just got infinitely better and younger overnight, or be pissed that he just fleeced my original favorite team. Well, since Ainge had it coming to him regardless, I guess I’m glad it was Sam who fucked him.

At least I feel better about my Emerson degree tonight, because I just learned that a GM from the most unathletic college in America can still outsmart a Mormon.

Larry, Kevin, and Chief may not be walking through that door, but neither is Ray Allen, since he’ll be limpsing through it on crutches. At this point I’d rather any of those three, or the corpse of Red run the team instead of Ainge.

I just can’t grasp this trade as being anything but a negative at the moment. I’m not going to judge based on what moves they could be making because right now I don’t know of any, so at this point the team as presently constructed cannot win more than 50 games under any circumstances, and get beyond the second round of the playoffs. And for that to happen everything has to go right for them this year, starting with Allen playing more than 55 games.

Hell, they might as well go all in and deal Green, Jefferson and Ratliff’s deal for KG, and see if three over the hill superstars can combine for one last great run. But of course they can’t add KG now without a third team involved, so I guess that’s a moot point.

Last night’s move was an affront to every fan that had bought into “The Vision.” For the last five year’s I’ve defended him as he stockpiled young assets, and the Celtics plummeted in the standings and respectability. He did this to save his own ass and his own job, so he could go to the owners and say either, “hey we won 45 games and went to the playoffs, we’re starting to turn things around.” Or. “We had a great roster we just got derailed by injuries.”
Wyc’s an idiot and if the latter occurs he’ll buy it even though it seems pretty obvious that injuries will derail this train before it ever gets started.
I feel betrayed by Ainge, who always made moves as if he didn’t care what others thought, and now he’s just turned around and bowed to all the pressure, from the sports radio yahoos who said we needed a veteran.

Right now defensively they couldn’t cover me going to the basket, so they damn well better score 110 every night just to have a chance.

I think I would have actually preferred Jesus Shuttlesworth, it’s too bad Pete Maravich and Dominque Wilkins weren’t available.
For all the hope that he can be just like Reggie Miller, Cheryl’s brother never averaged more than 20 a game after he turned 33, and never had any of the lower body issues that Allen has just suffered from.

Ainge’s best asset was he was a terrific drafter, (Marcus Banks not included) while he often makes mistakes with trades, and free agent signings. So in consecutive years he’s given away lottery picks for essentially nothing.
Can you imagine forgoing your best skill at your job to continue doing something you are very poor at, and still being able to keep your job?

Ainge should have to personally pay out of his own pocket, for that trip to Phoenix, and those dozens of trips to China, and Europe since it was clear he never had any intention of using the draft pick.
I think if Presti hadn’t come along he would have just pulled a Vikings and let the clock run out.

For fear of being labeled a racist by Michael Wilbon, I won’t say I hate Paul Pierce, but let’s just say his whining and moaning about needing another veteran has not done much to endear me to him.
He’s always been a choker in big games (game 4 ‘02 conference finals, game 6, and 7 of 05 first round) always turns the ball over at wrong times, and he begs more than the raspy voiced Spare Change guy on the Common.
He’s not a superstar, or else USA basketball wouldn’t consider him some sort of plague, he makes max money and isn’t a max player. Max players make their teammates better, he should have been leading the charge helping this team improve last year, but it wasn’t until he was hurt I realized how good they could be.


I look forward to the day 10 years from now when Ainge is the answer to a trivia question, name the only GM to win NBA titles for three different teams, none of which are his own.
I’m also looking forward to five years from now, when we don’t win the lottery, are and complaining about how we’re wasting the prime of Al Jefferson’s career.