Hey Jay, the Bruins knocked off Montreal last night at home, why aren’t you blogging about that? Again, my blog, my rules.
So we’ve touched on it before how if the Celtics hadn’t traded Kendrick Perkins the Celtics likely come out of the East as the champs last year and likely beat the Mavs in the NBA Finals. I’ll believe that scenario probably the rest of my life.
The trade happened and we have to live with it. We have to live with the repercussions of the trade.
Well, the repercussion for now is that you traded Perkins so you could rent Jeff Green for half a season. A routine physical showed an aortic aneurysm. In order to fix it he requires surgery and will miss the entire season.
So now I pose the question that I’m sure no one else will ask since they’re sensitive to the situation…
Can the Celtics petition the league office to veto the trade they made a year and a half ago? I mean, basically OK City sold them damaged goods. I’m sure this didn’t just develop in the last eight months. I’m sure the aneurysm was there. A pre-existing injury dare I say.
Of course that will never happen but I think it should. How else can you undo the biggest blunder in Ainge’s tenure as the GM? That’s right you can’t.
Now the Celtics have a ton of money coming off the books and a free agent call this next off-season highlighted by Dwight Howard. No chance he’s coming to Boston. Zero. There aren’t pieces around him to win. Sure Rondo will be here, but he’s not a scorer. So you’d have a scoring center, and a point guard. Not happening.
So will it be a repeat of when the Celtics had a ton of money and signed Travis Knight? I’m not lying when I say it’s certainly looking that way. They’ll totally overpay for a player that has no business making money the Celtics will have to pay him to come to Boston.
Dark days are ahead for this franchise. So maybe I should have written about the Bruins win over the Canadiens. Much happier news for the other team at the Garden.
