Posted by TMS:
Boston made some great trades but they better win a title or else pretty soon they're gonna be on the hook for a couple of aging stars making huge bucks & little else coming up in terms of young talent to take their place.
I don't buy that "they better win" stuff. They made those trades to try to get into a position where they're competing for championships for about a 3 year window. Win or lose, they've accomplished what they wanted to do with those trades. The fact that they were able to get into that position within a single season of being one of the very worst teams in the NBA is nothing short of remarkable.
If it didn’t work in Phoenix with Nash and Stoutamire... it’s just not a winning formula. It’s an entertaining formula, but not a winning one. - Derek Harper talking about D'Antoni's System