By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch

REMINDER: Shots will be putting in time with the good folks at CSTV.com beginning on Wednesday afternoon and lasting through Friday morning. You can find our NYC-based NBA Draft ramblings at the award-deserving Hang Time blog. Should be fun for the whole family, so do stop on by!

With the NBA Draft rapidly approaching there is more than a fair share of smoke screens and misdirection plays being run on an unsuspecting (and hungry) public.

But rest assured the one that Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski reported early Tuesday morning (posted at 1:30 a.m. and likely not in time for Boston papers to run with) isn’t among the pile of dung being flung from far and wide NBA cities.

Writes the well-connected and always-ahead-of-the-curve Wojnarowski:

According to a league executive, Paul Pierce has finally told team management that unless the Celtics comes out of this week with a talented veteran co-star for him, they should expect him to make a public declaration soon after Thursday’s draft that he wants a trade.

“Danny is under tremendous pressure, from inside and outside, to get a deal for someone done this week,” one league executive said.

Wojnarowksi is as wired an NBA guy as you will find and the revelation of Pierce’s unhappiness should hardly be shocking to anyone who has followed Pierce’s career in Boston. It’s completely believable because Pierce has made it that way throughout his career. He has never been embraced by, nor has he ever embraced the city, the franchise or its fans. There is only one way the Pierce Era can end in Boston and that’s with Pouter Paul pouting his way out of town into a better situation. You can only hope that Danny Ainge is able to get fair market value and bring a glimmer of hope back to the franchise.

This has potential to be THE story of the draft after Oden/Durant, which is essentially a non-story as Portland is locked and loaded for Oden.

. . . Wojnarowski is also saying the four-way deal which would have landed Jermaine O’Neal in Boston has “flat-lined.” But Shira Springer was not in agreement as of last night.

. . .Wojnarowski is scheduled to appear on the 11 p.m. “Out of Bounds” on CN8 Tuesday night and the Celtics will surely be a HUGE topic of conversation.

. . .(Tuesday Morning Update: The ever-clunky and in desperate need of an upgrade Boston Herald sports website is, according to Rob Bradford’s latest post, “having problem(s) with the server, which is making (it) nearly impossible to post. Thanks for your patience. Hopefully by the end of today will be up cranking again with a mammoth entry.”

(We now wonder if Bradford’s inconsistent - by his prior standards - posting schedule has been more due to to technical difficulties than it has to the time constraints of his new job.)

The Herald, which has been slow to grasp and attack the importance of a sleek and user-friendly site, has had recurring problems with its blogs (when sometimes users hoping to read Bradford or his comrades would instead see a message from the paper’s content management system, Word Press) and every continuing glitch is just another reason for visitors to never return to the antiquated (web-wise) site. Frustrating, we’re guessing, for the Herald people. Infuriating for its loyalists who have myriad other options.

. . . Curt Schilling, also a Word Press user, has his first post in almost two weeks. Nothing earth-shattering and he too promises more in the near future.