In just a few months the Boston Celtics went from the team who had the worst losing streak in the NBA last season, to the team who missed out on Greg Oden, to the team who traded for Ray Allen, to the favored team in the East by making a second blockbuster trade for Kevin Garnett.

You heard right, the Celtics will be sending Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett onto the court together next season.  A far cry from a starting lineup of Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Tony Allen, Ryan Gomes and Rajon Rondo which we saw much of last season.  There is no doubt that the Celtics will be an improved team, but what does this mean to the fantasy stock of those three stars, who have made their living playing on weak teams which they had to lead alone?

Paul Pierce - A dynamic scorer in the paint, with 3 point range.  Pierce will probably take the biggest hit in his stats, as he will be more of just a scorer on this team, without the need to make as many plays or rebound like he has done in the past.  Should see more open looks, so his points could stay very similat, or may only drop a couple notches, but his assists and rebounds will both fall back to that of a normal outside SF.   Won’t have the ball in his hands as much making plays for others, but will be on the receiving end of many plays.

Ray Allen - A prolific outside scorer.  Should continue to hit as many threes as ever, as Boston is always a shoot happy team.  With Rondo only a second year guard, watch for Allen to be more of a playmaker than ever before, and while his points will drop to around 20ish, his assists should climb.  Will have improved all around stats, instead of just scoring.

Kevin Garnett - The most likely to stay true to form.  He is a rebounding machine, and that should only improve playing in the East daily.  As well, he should feast off of more small teams in the East, providing more easy buckets and have some HUGE nights in the scoring column but foir average on the season look for him to defer to Pierce and Allen a little more and reach to match last years scoring average of 22.  Blocks should improve as he will be the anchor of this defense.  Assists should improve as he is an excellent passer, and finally has players around him who will finish off plays (mostly through jumpshots) that he creates.  Could have his best season for all-around stats.

At the end of the day, while there are fewer shots to go around for each player, having a combination like this on the floor also does not allow defenses to key in on any one player, and therefore provide many more open looks than these guys have ever seen.  PPG will not drop at the rate that is expected, and we may have a team with three 20 points scorers,  especially since at this time there are NO other scoring options on the team.  This team needs to average 100 a game to be winning games, so there are still a lot of points to be scored between three main options.