If you're a tenured Boston Celtics fan, you of course remember the famous trade from 2013 that sent Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for a handful of players and multiple draft picks. This is not a memory that has really been able to leave anyone's mind for the last dozen years because of how impactful it ended up being.
Trading away two franchise legends was a difficult decision for the Celtics to make, but it simply had to be done. Pierce and Garnett were past their primes, and the organization knew they wouldn't be able to be team cornerstones for much longer.