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Trading Ray Allen for Josh Smith Sounds Crazy, But Actually
Ray Allen / 2011-06-22 When you're in the position the Celtics are in right now, struggling to survive as the window rapidly closes for an aging veteran team to win a championship, there are certain things that you just don't do. Things like, you know, trade away a member of the four-man nucleus that's led you to 234 wins and two Finals berths over the last four years. Then again, if there was an exception to that rule -- not even "exceptions," plural, but just one, single solitary exception, no more and no less -- this would be the one. This is perfect.
Ray Allen for Josh Smith, straight up, one for one, actually makes a whole lot of sense.
I know, I know. The natural inclination is to fall back on that all-too-obvious mantra that "you can't trade one of your Big Three." And there's some sense in that, sure. But Allen is turning 36 next month, and Smith is more than a decade younger. The current Hawks power forward could be the perfect bridge from the Big Three era to a future generation of contending Celtics squads.
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