Dear Mr. Ainge,
I am a long time Boston Celtic fan. I saw two championships before you were even born. I was a season ticket holder when Hank Finkel was our center. I watched every one of the games M.L. Carr coached the last time we blew it up. I mean I love the Celtics.
I love the fact you are a gunslinger. I appreciate how you play chess, thinking many moves into the future. I know you are a great general manager. I am probably one of the few that think the Jeff Green for Kendrick Perkins trade was a good one. I know it is going to work out.
I just hope you don't blow it up. Please don't blow it up. Didn't we blow it up to get Tim Duncan? I seem to recall that didn't work out too well for us. Besides I can't wait another twenty years for a championship. Remember I witnessed that first championship so it is unlikely I will be here twenty years from now. Look we have the pieces to make a quick transition. We have a point guard who is actually a point guard. I love Rondo. The only point guard in the league who can actually dribble either hand without palming the ball. I almost panicked when they said you were going to trade him. Trade him for Chris Paul? Come on Danny, yeah Paul is scoring a half a dozen points more a game than Rondo, but his assists and rebounds are down each of the last two years and below Rondo's totals this year. Trade him for Westbrook? Heh Westbrook is exciting but this guy is not a point guard. He isn't even averaging six assists a game. I am glad these trades didn't happen and I know that trade for Stephen Curry was something that someone must have dreamt, especially the part where it was said Golden State turned it down. If they did they are clueless and will stink forever.
What other pieces do we have? Well Pierce can still play, one of the top five mid-range games in the league. Yeah the contracts of Garnett and Allen are up but maybe they can be pieces too. I read you should trade them now and get something for them even if it is a second round pick. Please, the real question is what you think these guys will be worth on the open market next year or better yet what will it take to sign them for another year here. Garnett certainly isn't getting $22 million anywhere next year but he can still play. He'll probably get a little more than a mid level exception. Allen maybe gets mid-level exception money. Allen can still fire away the threes and space the floor, he could probably do that till he is fifty. The dude is shooting 47% from three point land a full seven percentage points above his career average, amazing.
Now someone might say if you have all these good pieces how come you aren't winning more? Well that answer is simple we can't rebound. We are last in rebounding and we are twenty-seventh out of thirty in rebounding differential. This rebounding problem has been with us for a while. It is why we didn't get second and third championships from this group. You knew it was the problem even with Perkins and that is why you traded him for Green. Heck Jermaine O'Neill is only averaging one fewer rebounds per game then Perkins and although Jermaine seems like a nice enough guy I am sure he isn't the solution at center.
There is a simple solution to this problem and his name is Dwight Howard. I heard our owner say we will have money for two max salaries after this year. Well if we can get Garnett and Allen for the price of one max salary then we can use the other max salary for Howard. I know Howard doesn't seem to want to come here but neither did Garnett and you did what you needed to do to convince him. We can win the whole thing with Howard and our existing pieces. Basically we are asking Garnett and Allen to do what guys in the NFL do all the time, restructure their contracts to win a championship.
Give Howard whatever he wants. Sign him and give him an option to opt out after a couple of years. If we win he will stay, if we don't maybe we need to go in a different direction. There is only one negative in Boston and that is the weather. Does Dwight know they probably make as many movies in Boston as they do in LA? Endorsement deals are everywhere now it doesn't matter where you play, have him talk to Peyton Manning. In addition there are three good reasons he should come here. First, He will be playing for a championship the first year he gets here. Second he will be playing for one of the best coaches in the game. Third, he will get a minimum of five easy baskets a game playing with Rondo.
Danny, I hope you can get these things done. but please whatever happens don't blow it up.
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