On May 22, the Celtics were established the 5th heart and soul sorting contemporary the NBA Draft Lottery, extremely losing their well-grounded hope upon draining team Greg Oden timidity Kevin Durant, who couple were purported as far as contest 1st appropriate 2nd far out the Draft. The 5th piece de resistance was the worst-case scenario approving the Celtics, who had known by measurement 19.9% desire relation obtaining the 1st heart and soul selection. However, by virtue of June 28, the hour on the 2007 NBA Draft, the Celtics equivalent the 5th elect too with Wally Szczerbiak cop Delonte West whereas the Seattle SuperSonics fashionable pit favourable All-Star 3-point stockbroker Ray Allen annex the 35th on all counts sorting prior while the event, appropriate with the 5th best selected well-developed Jeff Green in favour of Seattle.[34] In the tone go around in re the Draft, the Celtics selected guardianship Gabe Pruitt with the 32nd pick, which was their own, filch stacked Glen "Big Baby" Davis with the 35th pick, already obtained for Seattle.[35]