Lottery Hangover And What Should Happen.

Props to Bob Ryan's Sports Blog:

"I asked about a good luck charm. "This suit is it, I guess," he said. The suit in question is a charcoal grey suit with green pinstripes. I read elsewhere he had it made in Florence, and I assume that was the one with all the museums in Italy and not the town in Alabama. Let me say it takes courage to wear that suit in public."



Lemme get this strait Wyc, on the biggest night of a whole generation of fan's lives you forget to bring a good luck charm of any sort? A 5,000 dollar suit? A Phillie Cigar painted in purple and gold would have been less sacrilegious then not bringing anything at all. You are almost in Jon Barry territory in my pie chart of blame for the 2007 NBA Lottery.

On the subject of ping-pong balls: yes I did yell at my television. Yes I did spend about 20 minutes venting on realgm and yes I fell asleep at about 830 Mountain Time (get used to that.) On Wednesday I was fairly delusional to the point where I wondered if I should have showed up at work. But I got through the day and came up with TWO THINGS that Danny has to do to so save himself from a Wikipedia tag under Former Celtics GM's.

1. Trade the 5th pick, Gerald Green and Theo Ratliff for Shawn Marion. I think it's time to seriously (I know it feels like the 5,000th time ownership has said this) turn into a high octane offensive powerhouse (I really like saying that). The Eastern Conference is paper thin, and probably will stay that way. It's time for an Eastern Conference team to take the Suns' formula and succeed with it. We know what Marion can bring in such a design, and Al Jefferson seems well suited to play the role of Amare Stoudamaire.

Give the keys to Rondo and commit to becoming a complete running team. Tie up Rajon and tape his eyes open to hours and hours of Phoenix tape. Or, if you think it's a little to soon you can...

2. Trade the 32nd pick, Ryan Gomes and Wally to New Jersey for Jason Kidd. I'm an old schooler and there is NO ONE in this draft, outside of the big two, that I would rather have then Jason Kidd. Further more what has been the number one need for the Celtics for the last decade, point guard. Granted, Kidd has miles on him, but with a 35/25 split on minutes with Rajon Rondo the Celtics have a chance to have one of the best point guard situations in the league.

So what your doing is turning us into the Suns huh?

A watered down version of one. Does Pierce work in this style of play? We'll see.

Trading out of such a highly touted draft may raise some eyebrows, but I really think the Celtics need to take advantage of this laughable Atlantic Division. Kidd, West, Pierce, Marion and Al instantly makes us the favorites to win the Atlantic. It also brings a fun, run and gun style that could bring smiles to a city full of sad basketball fans with paper bags on their heads.