Austin Ainge on Celtics Beat: “We were holding out for the home run”

The younger Ainge opened up on a summer of optimism that helped them improve, but not achieve the championship contender they were hoping for.

At this point the NBA summer madness has embarked on it’s downward slide towards training camp. Executives formerly entrenched in round-the-clock pursuits of some of the NBA’s biggest stars after pulling an all-nighter in Brooklyn for the NBA Draft are now heading from short morning telephone conversations to golf and the beach.

As Celtics’ director of player personnel put it, the offseason isn’t over but it has certainly slowed down. He appeared on Larry H.