>got "lucky" for KG, got "lucky"
yes, they had Big Al a player McHale was drooling over b/c he's a dumb ass
>for ray allen, "got lucky"
yes, Seattle drafted KD & wanted to draft Jeff Green plus move Ray.....Celtics happened to have a low draft pick & a whole lot of caps space.

>for rondo and "got lucky" to dump these worthless assets for
>first rounders?
I'll give him that but Rhonda ain't done shyt before nor after the big 3

>i dont know how many times it needs to be asked but can
>someone show me another star who netted a player as good as al
>jefferson?
The team that's losing a PROVEN/disgruntled star loses 99.99999999% of the time. Whoever happens to land them has gotten lucky & hit the jackpot. All they have to do is pickup the phone & send some spare parts b/c stars don't grow on trees.

>seriously. gasol is probably the next one down and
>that is a hindsight thing, people cried about that deal much
>more than jefferson even. iverson got andre miller, mcgrady
>got declining francis/mobley, shaq got odom/butler and you
>could go through these deals all day. only recently (melo,
>deron, paul) have stars fetched even close to fair value and
>even that required some unusual circumstances.
>
>ainge doesn't do sexy things for the media to pick up on the
>way morey or even kupchak does. he just does effective things
>and i think he is fine with not getting praise for it. how
>hard was it for auerbach and west to make trades once they won
>a bunch of them? as a GM, you prefer your profile low.
At the moment: RC; Bird; Presti all built via the draft/bargain pickups.......Aigne/Kupchak/Riley & to a certain extent Morey built via unlimited budget. I just wish what the former 3 would do w/ an unlimited budget &/or if they tanked for ping pong balls.