Yeah, it’s pretty much just an examination. And I’d pump the brakes vigorously on calling Ainge “one of the best GMs ever”—and I’m a Celtics fan. He’s been good. Very good, even. But I think Ainge’s current campaign to make the Celts into contenders has changed form and run into a few snags along the way, no time more…

Do you really believe Butler could have been had for the #3 straight up? Seems unlikely.

it’s incredibly rare for a team as strong as the Celtics to have really valuable assets that they don’t strictly need in order to stay competitive at the top, which puts Ainge in a nearly unique position of strength and flexibility.

If the Celtics were the 6th seed, looking to improve enough to make a deep playoff run and maybe push for the Eastern Conference Finals, then not grabbing Butler would be worthy of the criticism Ainge is getting.

Deadspin party line #1: Lebron is a basketball god who can destroy worlds and feed off of the suns energy

I heard some folks speculating that maybe this is because Jackson, or people around him, preferred him to go to a team where he’s likely to get a lot of playing time right off the bat so he can get more publicity as a rookie, maybe contend for rookie of the year (though if that happens, everyone was REALLY wrong about…

This is true, it’s weird how everyone forgets that time Sam Hinkie put together a championship team.

And an NBA title as an executive.

“For those two out-of-conference regular season games each year, the Celtics will pay for not drafting me one pick earlier after I stood up their basketball brain trust during a cross-country flight.”

What if the car’s been vandalized because it used to belong to a college basketball player’s ex-girlfriend? Where’s that CGI fox wearing a T-shirt?

Anyone who has a problem with a dude doing a completely legal thing at the plate and succeeding is a nincompoop.

He still goes home to Kate Upton.

Best outcome here is that they trade Kristaps but end up stuck with Melo, right?

Putting shit into your ass should be called “Raspberry Beret” simply because of the lyric “She walked in through the out door.”

It’s tough though. How do tell a guy that you want him but aren’t willing to show that level of interest with some trades now?

God, the Lakers would be insane and beyond hope if they traded the second overall pick for a guy who’ll be a free agent next summer, and wants to play for them.

The Wizards are just dumb enough to mortgage their long-term future with a huge overpay for a guy other teams could nab for 30 cents on the dollar.

Isn’t he the guy who keeps touching dicks?

He mocked the Cleveland Cavaliers by rapping “Cavaliers? Nope. We won? Yupp. They suck? Yupp. We here? Yupp. They not? Nooope.”

I see that Russ Westbrook liked LBJs comment.