Is Danny Ainge doing the right things?

All the attention in the NBA has been about the Warriors arguably being the best team ever and where LeBron is going next summer. The Kyrie Irving trade demand news has took over the NBA offseason. All this stuff going on in the offseason has took away from a crucial question. Did Danny Ainge make the Boston Celtics better or did he actually make them worse?

All last season their were rumors about Gordon Hayward joining the Boston Celtics this summer because he was an upcoming free agent and his college coach at Butler University Brad Stevens coaches the Celtics now. Even in the one game the Utah Jazz came to Boston they gave Gordon Hayward a standing ovation when he was introduced. This caused one of Boston's current players Jae Crowder to be mad about it because the play the same position. The fans knew about the rumors and they wanted to show Hayward a preview of the love that he would receive if he signed there.

Danny Ainge went out and got Hayward and Boston fans were happy. They felt like this was the missing piece to getting over the hump to get to the NBA finals. People didn't know the repercussions that this signing would cause. In order to sign the All-Star Hayward. Boston didn't have enough cap space to actually give Hayward the max deal so they had to let some people go. They had to let key bench player Kelly Olynyk go, the biggest blow came when they to trade Avery Bradley away to Detroit to free up space.

With all the moves Boston has made there's a question to ask. Did Boston actually get better? They lost some key players and added an All-Star. They still don't have a legit big man on defense to protect the paint. Ainge also missed out of chances to trade for star players like Jimmy Butler and Paul George for example.


We will have to see what happens in Boston this year to judge Ainge's actions this offseason.

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