The Chronicles of Garnett

I've been listening to all the opinions regarding KG getting dealt. Chad Hartman is leaning toward the Boston deal, Dan Barreiro is not. Britt Robson was on MPR earlier this morning discussing the prospects; I find it very hilarious, since about two years ago he was boinking people off his blog if the subject was discussed. For someone as passionate of a KG backer as Britt is, I found his analysis to be rather objective. Good for him.

Then there are the boards, and the rumors; the people with "sources" who claim this or that person is in the know. I really do love this time of year, even though the facts are much of the speculation rarely turns into reality, especially in this town, with the front office we have. Not that anyone is particularly interested, here's my take:

Hartman's take was that probably this is the last decent shot at getting some value for KG, and that the 5th pick and Jefferson, in addition to our 7th, would represent a good start at rebuilding. He also mentioned that the Wolves would still need to enter the lottery a number of additional times to truly rebuild the team. That's where the rub is. We still owe two future number one's. It's going to be harder and harder to hold on to those draft choices, unless Boston gives us back the pick we gave up in that awful trade, or we can obtain another pick from somewhere else to compensate for the pick we will eventually gives the Clippers. This is how screwed up the Iron Ranger has made the organization. It is truly the rock and the hard place. Our ability to acquire talent through 2010 via draft is greatly compromised because of McHale's previous personnel moves. So, if we take that swing now and trade KG to the Celts, we'd better hit a home run with the 5th and 7th. I'm also not a huge Jefferson fan.

A trade for Phoenix talent would make more sense to me, but the fact is this whole situation is going to be very difficult. At this juncture, I would focus on keeping KG, let McHale limp off back to North Oaks, and go all out to find the best talent possible with a different VP (Hoiberg?). After his contract ends, we can offer him half of what he's making right now, and can get us by at least of the half of the draft IOU's we are committed to. Yeah, the chances are that we wouldn't get any value for him at age 33 or 34, because he would at that age simply cherry pick his way onto a contending team. But the facts are we can't even start over like other teams can, because we owe draft choices.

The saga continues...