All Your Picks Belong To Us

ALL YOUR DRAFT PICKS BELONG TO US!!  BWAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!  BWAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!  (cue the crazy scientist laugh for Wyc and the snickering Igor laugh-along for Danny. Stevens is just thinking "Oh boy! I'm sooooo set")

excerpted from celticsblog.com




The latest haul includes a 2nd rounder from the Heat and a potential first rounder via the Sixers.  If they fail to make the playoffs this year or next year, that turns it into two 2nd rounders.  How likely is that?  I'll let Zach Lowe give the bright side view.

Why the Jordan Crawford Deal Helps Miami, Golden State, and Boston "

Never underestimate the horribleness of the Eastern Conference. The Sixers will almost certainly have two lottery picks in this draft — their own and the one they acquired from the Pelicans for Jrue Holiday. That pick is top-five protected, and given New Orleans’s injury issues, it could fall somewhere around no. 8 or no. 9. Nail those picks, get Nerlens Noel healthy, and sign the requisite cap-fodder veterans, and it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Philly crawls into a low-end playoff spot next season — sending Boston a first-rounder in the process.



Draft picks that the Celtics own in the next 18 months:

Boston's 2014 1st round pick - looking like a lottery pick
Brooklyn's 2014 first round pick (lesser of Nets/Hawks picks) - probably not lottery
Boston's 2015 first round pick - could be lottery, might not, we'll see
Clippers' 2015 first round pick - most likely in the 20's next year
Sixers' 2014 or 2015 first round pick (lottery protected; becomes 2 second rounders if Sixers fail to make playoffs in both years)


Longer term draft picks:

Brooklyn's 2016 first round pick
Boston's 2016 first round pick
Boston's 2017 (with right to swap with the Nets)
Brooklyn's 2018 first round pick
Boston's 2018 first round pick


We have 483 draft picks.  We will have 4 guys suited up and a bunch of cardboard cut-outs on the bench.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:10298495



bob


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If this keeps up eventually no one's gonna make trades with Danny anymore.


KJ

k_j_88 wrote:If this keeps up eventually no one's gonna make trades with Danny anymore.


KJ

KJ,

Then we'll trade Danny for someone new, like we did with Doc for Brad, and get a draft pick thrown in for him.  LOL.


bob


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How many of the picks is it reasonable to hope can eventually produce impact players, either through draft picks or trades?

Sam