What?

SPORTING GOODS

This morning on Mike and Mike, the discussion was that a Garnett to Lakers trade would include the Celtics getting involved (as reported yesterday). The Celtics would be getting Jermaine O'Neal while giving up Al Jefferson and the #5 pick. I don't know how reliable that report was, but fortunately, this morning I read that:

Later on Monday, the Times reported that the deal in that form had fallen apart because the Celtics did not like their end of the deal.

You think? The fact that any Celtics fan or NBA expert would tell you that they didn't like what the Celtics were doing when the thought was they would trade Jefferson and the draft pick for Kevin Garnett, then the O'Neal trade made absolutely no sense.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't have put it past the Celtics to do it. So now we hold our breath for the next 3 days and hope that they don't do something that will kill the team through 2012.