Fantastic day for sports; Ainge is a moron

I get in the same day Frank Thomas hits #500 and Biggio hits his 3000th, along with the NBA Draft? Sweet.

Danny Ainge is the most incompetent human being in sports. I can't believe he draws a salary for being like a 2nd guard off the bench for most of his career. He trades the #5 pick in the deepest draft ever, the very palatable contract of Delonte West, and the high 7 digits Szczerbiak is getting the next 3 years for a 32 year old jump shooting max contract? Are you kidding? It's not like they're playing for anything more than a six seed this year, it's better to dump Paul Pierce if he wants out than be saddled with two max contracts for a combined nine years. The funniest thing I've read about the deal is written by kurtangletn on boston.com: "What you guys aren't happy about throwing a year for Ray Allen? Whats the matter with you?"

I was okay with Nick Young at 16; I'm from the Ozzie Newsome school of taking the best player available, and the Wizards can let Stevenson and Hayes go and replace them with a guy who can play above the rim. Then they also have more money to resign Blatche. New Jersey took Sean Williams (kicked off the team for drugs) with the next pick, hearkening back to last year when they took Marcus Williams (suspended for stealing laptop computers). David Aldridge always says you can have one knucklehead, but when you have two it starts to be a group. Something to watch in New Jersey now that there's an opening in organized crime.

The second biggest trade was probably Portland dealing Zach Randolph to New York for Steve Francis and Channing Frye. Normally you would just assume that Isiah Thomas made a bad trade, but I can see both teams thinking here. Portland is declaring Oden the franchise player, and when Steve Francis's max contract comes off the book, Portland can make a splash in free agency while Oden is playing out his option. New York is adding a 25 year old 20 and 10 guy who's locked up for the next five years. Fair deal.