Video: The heartbreak of trading your son to another family

Noting Celtics’ coach Doc Rivers’ claim that trading Kendrick Perkins was like “[I] lost a family member today,” one of the writers at the blog Basketbawful took a hard look at his own home situation, and decided that some tough choices had to be made. So the writer, Ted, called his nine-year-old into his office, and told him to bring his playbook.

“And call in your sister.” Ha.

Well done, and perhaps now coaches will tone down the hyperbole when describing how this player or that is like “a family member.” Um, no, not really. Otherwise he’d still be there.

I made sure to trade my son to a family that wasn’t in my grammar school district, so that I wouldn’t have to worry about his talents impeding my own family’s success (at least not until high school rolls around), and I made sure that I got a kid who’s skills filled some voids, and would compliment the skills of the rest of my family. I think in the end, we’ll be a better family for it, but I still have lingering emotions, and can now confidently confirm that Doc Rivers was right — it totally feels like I traded Kendrick Perkins to the Thunder.

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This is never easy … [Basketbawful]