@Tschmack posted:Can someone explain to me what Boston is doing sending Walker and a 1st rounder to OKC for 90 year old Al Horford?
The Celtics effectively traded Terry Rozier for Kemba Walker two years ago when they still had Horford (or at least could resign him).
Two years later, they trade Walker for Horford. So, effectively they traded Terry Rozier (who has only one year left on a deal for 19 million a year and averaged 20 a game on good shooting splits this year) to be able to get Al Horford back two years later when he's owed 53 million for the next two years when he just turned 35. The decision was they'd rather pay Horford 53 million over two years to be an almost complete liability on defense than pay Walker 73 million a year to be a total liability on defense for the next two years.
Somehow Danny Ainge turned a team with Tatum, Brown, Irving, Horford, Hayward, Smart, Rozier, and Marcus Morris into Tatum and Brown and managed to overpay Marcus Smart and now Al Horford while losing Hayward, Rozier, Irving, and Morris for almost nothing.