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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4304638, member: 1969"] I would say teams trading stars getting a massive bounty, especially draft bounty, is more of a post 2010 thing, that was even set off more by the Paul George trade in 2019. Some of the costs to obtain stars prior to 2010 were not always that high - Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Pau Gasol, Vince Carter ... and if we go way back - Charles Barkley. The packages that Boston had to give up for Garnett and Allen pales in comparison to some of the mega-bounties we see today. Celtics received a lot of value from young players who put up numbers on a 23 win team -- they had to play somebody. For Ray Allen - On draft night in 2007, the Celtics selected Jeff Green with that No. 5 pick, immediately moving the Georgetown star forward to the Seattle Supersonics along with Wally Szczerbiak, Delonte West and a 2008 second-round pick in exchange for sharpshooting guard Ray Allen and Glen Davis.[B] [I]So basically a 5th overall pick (in a not so strong draft), a second round pick, a B level prospect in Delonte West, and salary filler in Wally who was in serious decline at the age of 29.[/I] [/B] For Kevin Garnett - On July 31, 2007, Boston sent Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, Sebastian Telfair and two 2009 first-round picks to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Kevin Garnett.[B] The first things that stands out is only two 2009 first round picks...although one of them was a valuable Minny 2009 pick that Minny had given to the Celts in the first place a few years earlier with zero protection for Ricky Davis. Al Jefferson was a solid piece that was helped by being able to put up numbers on a bad team. The rest of the package was largely sluff.[/B] Anyway, while I was looking up the return in the Kevin Garnett deal (Minny-Boston), and I came across this article from the Garnett-Pierce to Nets deal in the summer of 2013. At the time the author gave the Nets and A in the deal, and Boston a B. Oops. [URL unfurl="true"]https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1687344-celtics-nets-blockbuster-trade-grading-kevin-garnett-paul-pierce-to-brooklyn[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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