Question: In the illustrious career of NBA superstar Paul Pierce, which happened first: Becoming McDonald's All-American or being traded to the Brooklyn Nets?

<P0-S0> The 2001–02 NBA season was the 56th season for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association. <P0-S1>  This season saw the Celtics select future All-Star Joe Johnson with the tenth pick in the 2001 NBA draft, but later on traded him at midseason to the Phoenix Suns for Rodney Rogers and Tony Delk. <P0-S2>  The Celtics struggled with a 5–6 start to the season, but then won 12 of their next 14 games. <P0-S3>  They won eight of their final nine games finishing second in the Atlantic Division with a 49–33 record, making their first playoff appearance since 1995. <P0-S4>  Paul Pierce averaged 26.1 points per game and was selected along with Antoine Walker for the 2002 NBA All-Star Game, which marked his first All-Star appearance. <P0-S5>  In the first round of the playoffs, the Celtics defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in five games, advancing to the second round for the first time since 1992. <P0-S6>  In the semifinals, they defeated the 2nd-seeded Detroit Pistons four games to one, reaching the Conference Finals also for the first time since 1988. <P0-S7>  However, they would lose in six games to the New Jersey Nets in the Eastern Conference Finals after taking a 2–1 series lead. <SEP> <P1-S0> The 2013–14 Boston Celtics season was the franchise's 68th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). <P1-S1>  The Celtics finished 25–57 and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2007. <P1-S2>  The Celtics made several major changes to the team, including hiring Brad Stevens as the new head coach and sending Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry to the Brooklyn Nets. <SEP> <P2-S0> The 2012–13 Boston Celtics season was the 67th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). <P2-S1>  The Boston Celtics finished the regular season with a 41–40 won-loss record, which was the 3rd best in the Atlantic division, bringing an end to the 5-year run as Atlantic Champs and 7th best in the East. <P2-S2>  Their longest winning and losing streaks were 7 and 6 games respectively. <P2-S3>  The leading scorer was Paul Pierce, averaging 18.6 PPG. <P2-S4>  The leading rebounder was Kevin Garnett (7.8 RPG). <P2-S5>  Rajon Rondo led the team and the league in assists per-game with 11.1 despite only playing 38 games due to ACL injury. <P2-S6>  The Celtics only played 81 games as their April 16 game was cancelled in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and was not rescheduled because it would not have changed any part of the final Eastern Conference standings anyway. <P2-S7>  The Celtics would go on to lose in the first round of the playoffs for the first time since the 2004–05 season. <P2-S8>  This season would mark the end of the Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett era in Boston as they were traded to the Brooklyn Nets during the 2013 off-season. <SEP> <P3-S0>  Pierce was a high school McDonald's All-American and earned consensus first-team All-America honors in his junior year at Kansas. <P3-S1> Paul Anthony Pierce (born October 13, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player who played 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).