COMMENTARY
“Well, he’d better be right.”
That was what I and many others said when we’d heard Danny Ainge was trading the No. 1 overall pick — and almost unanimous selection — Markelle Fultz, to the Philadelphia 76’ers. The Celtics had finally gotten a shot at the top pick and there was a strong consensus that Fultz was a franchise-changing player, yet here was Ainge passing on Billy King’s greatest gift from “the trade.”
Even when he said he’d have selected Tatum with the first pick if there was no trade, I took it with enough salt to push my blood pressure up a few ticks.