Trade Potentially Reduces Celtics Roster to 12

Army Update

Done Deal (Giddens Likely Included)

A league souce close to negotiations just said the Celtics and Knicks have finalized a trade that will send Eddie House to the Knicks in exchange for guard Nate Robinson. A second source also confirmed that Celtics forward J.R. Giddens has likely been included in the deal. There is also still much that could happen, with the Knicks still attempting to send other players to other teams. “(Giddens) is probably going to be part of this,” said the source. “And at the end of the day Eddie is probably going to end up in New York. But there are so many moving parts to this, a number of things can still happen.”

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Havlicek without a Jump Shot

We know that Rick Pitino once compared Bruce Bowen to John Havlicek, with the only difference--according to Pitino-- being that Hondo possessed a jump shot, while Bowen did not. Since Bowen can now score from range, does that make him bound for the Hall? Probably not. We also know that the fates of JR Giddens, Bill Walker, and Bruce Bowen may somehow be connected. What I had forgotten was that "Hondo Sans the J" also wore #12 here.

How convenient if the current #12 departed to make room for a 6-8 former Celtic that more closely resembles James Posey than he does one of the greatest basketball players ever to play the game.

The Makeover Continues

Like I was saying the other day over at MVN, perhaps the most fascinating thing to happen this summer was something that didn't happen at all, namely the proposed draft day trade of Brian Scalabrine, Tony Allen and a choice of J.R. Giddens or Bill Walker for the Memphis Grizzlies' 36th pick and cash considerations. A lot of folks thought Danny had his eye on someone at pick #36. Not me. I figured Danny was trying to unload three players for one, and since the one player he'd get in return was a non-guaranteed second round pick, it was really three players for zero. Next you throw in the fact that Gabe Pruitt has a team option this year, the aforementioned proposed trade told us that Danny's goal was to totally remake the roster from spots 6-15.

Well, last night we heard the other shoe hit the floor.

Like any good (read "bad") Celtics' fan, I'm now obsessing over who were gonna lose in the Marquis Grissom, er, I mean Daniels deal. Losing Brian Scalabrine would have concerned me more before his third concussion of the season last year sent him to the same type of doctor that told Troy-Aikman to hang it up, meaning whatever reason there is to love or appreciate Vanilla Thunder is now a fleeting reason because of the brain issues (kind of ironic, don't you think, since Danny's brain doctor told Danny to sign Brian because he had a good brain type. I wonder what the brain doctor would say about Scal's brain today?).

Which brings us to the burning question of the next three days: what else will Larry exact from Danny in this deal?

Here's my break down:

I think Tony Allen would be a tough MoFo if his body didn't let him down and make him such a wuss. Gabe Pruitt is a preacher's kid, and thus where nature has left Tony Allen lacking bodily resilience, nurture has left Gabe Pruitt lacking a killer intensity. Between JR Giddens and Bill Walker, I say Giddens is the more talented, while Walker is tougher, physically and mentally, which thus makes him more of a Doc-Rivers guy.

So if we're gonna lose someone other than Scal, I guess the pecking order is to lose Gabe first, Tony Allen second, Giddens third, and Walker fourth. What say you?