Over the past decade the Boston Celtics have found themselves with an outrageous amount of draft capital thanks in large to the now famous — or infamous, depending on where your allegiance lies — 2013 trade that sent Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn.
In exchange, the C’s received irrelevant salary matching contracts (Kris Humphries, Gerald Wallace, etc.) and future first round draft picks in 2014, 2016 and 2018. While the players received didn’t ever wind up making any long-lasting impacts for the franchise (none but Wallace stayed past that season) the draft assets acquired have managed to blossom into part of the main foundation for this current iteration of the team, namely Jaylen Brown (2016) and Jayson Tatum (2018).