Anthony Davis isn’t worth the cost for Celtics
By Cody Rivera
It would be very exciting to see Anthony Davis wearing green, but not for what it would cost to make it happen.
Danny Ainge has spent the last several seasons stockpiling potential trade assets for the Boston Celtics, and it was never a secret that New Orleans Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis was on his radar.
For years now, Davis has been mixed up in trade rumors involving the Celtics. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, it’s still a very real possibility that Ainge could throw together his assets to make one of the biggest blockbuster trades in NBA history to finally bring Davis to Boston.
“Boston has been hawking Anthony Davis for years,” Wojnarowski said on a recent Woj & Lowe broadcast. “They always hoped that it would be — whether it’s the end of this season or the beginning of next before the trade deadline — that they would gather up all those assets, all those picks Danny Ainge has, young players, and they’d be the team to be able to get Anthony Davis.
“But now you have L.A., and if they get shut out in free agency, they’re going to have to take all their young players to try to use them to get Anthony Davis.”
Davis has always been an MVP-type player, and the thought of seeing him in green and white could be thrilling for Boston fans. But the cost would be far too great. In order to acquire him, the Celtics would have to give up everything, especially their young talent.
In a deal for Davis, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, among others, would undoubtedly be shipped to New Orleans. It’s just not worth giving them up. Tatum and Brown have too much potential to be one of the league’s best 1-2 punches a few years down the road.
Tatum is a budding superstar, and Brown — when healthy — is an outstanding complimentary piece. One day, the two of them could form a Jordan-Pippen type of combo. They could keep the Celtics competing for titles even long after Kyrie Irving, Gordon Hayward and Al Horford have moved on from Boston.
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Giving all of that up for Davis, with no guarantee that he would work out in Boston, just doesn’t seem worth it. Ainge should stick to what he already has, which has the potential to become the next great Celtics dynasty.