Back on draft night in 2007, about an hour after the Celtics had traded the No. 5 pick, Wally Szczerbiak and Delonte West to Seattle for Ray Allen and a second-round pick that would turn later in the evening into Glen Davis, famed broadcaster Sean McDonough, among the revelers at the club’s party, asked me what I thought of the deal.
I told him it didn’t make sense to me as it stood. I believed there had to be another move to come, for all this one did was take a bad team and bring it closer to mediocrity, which is the NBA version of jail.