Yeah, it's pretty amazing. To turn Pierce and Garnett, at that age, into such a huge haul is basically robbery. Ainge also got an all star point guard for free, turned Rondo into Crowder (I doubt there's a GM in the league that would prefer Rondo to Crowder at this point) and a first. Oh, and the Celtics are going to host a playoff series 3 years later.
According to my "math", here's the Pierce/Garnett deal today. The Garnett/Terry aspect is not truly breakable, but I did anyway for simplicity, with least valuable pick on Terry and most (at that time) with Garnett. Some of the TPE stuff was tough to reconstruct, so it may be off.
Terry --> Wallace + 2014 BKN 1st
- Wallace --> Lee
- 2014 BKN 1st --> Young
Pierce --> 10M TPE + Bogans +
2016 BKN 1st
- 10M TPE -->
Zeller + Thornton + 2016 CLE 1st
-- Thornton + 2015 CLE 1st --> Thomas
- Bogans -->
2 CLE 2nds + 5M TPE (expired)
Garnett --> Humphries +
2017 BOS/BKN 1st Swap +
2018 BKN 1st
- Humphries --> 5M TPE --> Brendan Wright -->
2 PHX 2nds (likely)
In Sum:
Terry, Pierce, Garnett --> Thomas, Zeller, Lee, Young, 3 (remaining) 1sts, 4 (remaining) 2nds
From this perspective, if Ainge basically
had to give up one of the Nets picks for Horford, the trade is still coming out way ahead.