Two and a half years ago the Celtics were close to closing on a trade with the New Orleans Hornets for All Star PG Baron Davis, a close friend of Paul Pierce's since their days playing AAU ball together as kids. By all accounts the team balked at the prospect of taking on Davis' uninsured max contract and bad knees, not wanting to pay big bucks for a guard that only gave you an average of 55 games a year. So instead of swapping Tony Allen and expiring contracts for Davis we did a seperate deal with the Atlanta Hawks to bring back Antoine Walker for a two-month rental and first-round playoff elimination.
Davis may rarely play a full season any more, but when he does play he's pretty impressive. Baron has been abusing Jason Terry and Devin Harris all series, and has #8 seed Golden State up 3-1 over the team with the best regular-season record in the league. Baron is playing like he could win the matchup with most guards in the league from a wheelchair, and from this living room looks like easily the best player on either team in the series (specifically including the Mavs' supposed MVP candidate).
As for the Celtics, they decided to tie up salary equal to Baron's in such healthy, productive vets as Brian Scalanbrine and Wally Sczcerbiak. So at least we got that going for us.
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