A league front-office source told FanHouse that the Celtics have been dangling center Kendrick Perkins and their No. 19 pick to teams with high lottery picks in attempt to add a dynamic young talent to their aging core. It's a tough sell, considering Perkins is facing surgery as early as Friday after tearing his medial collateral ligament and partially tearing his posterior cruciate ligament in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
Perkins has an expiring contract that will pay him $4.4 million next season, and the best case scenario for the Celtics would be to move their big man and the pick to a team with the salary cap space to absorb both and free up money for Ainge's strapped payroll. NBA Fanhouse
Perk may be my third favorite Celtic in my lifetime behind Rondo and Pierce, however, if there was an opportunity to get Demarcus Cousins or Evan Turner you have to think about it. Philly probably would do it, figuring they have no inside physical presence even after acquiring Spencer Hawes. But are teams willing to look past his knee injury? I think so. As of right now Perk is the 2nd best defensive center in the league, he has played Dwight Howard well and even Poopface well. But as the Celtics get older, and as we saw in the finals, they need offense from somewhere and getting a talent like Cousins or Turner could give them instant offense. The sure things in this draft are John Wall, Evan Turner and Demarcus Cousins, so if they ended up with any of them I'd be ecstatic.
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