I hope to god this rumor about Ainge offering a first rounder to buy Asik is false. Even with Asik in tow we'd still get annihilated by the Heat or Pacers, assuming we even get that far (I'm not trusting a .500 record in December with this crew). If Asik fails and the team flops, we surrendered a valuable first rounder for the right to have that useless contract on our hands. If Asik plays well and we win like 42 games and the division crown, we're still just one special ed team in a conference full of them, and there's absolutely no guarantee we'd even make it to the conference finals/semi-finals to get whacked by the two aforementioned teams. On top of that, we'd be wagering Brooklyn staying on their low-30s win pace as our only chance at a good spot in a loaded draft that was supposed to be instrumental in getting us back to respectability. Looks like we're gonna be the new Raptors for a while.