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While the season is in full swing (minus a few COVID-19-related game cancellations here and there), there’s always recruiting going on for NBA teams. The Boston Celtics have traditionally preferred to build their team through the draft, with Danny Ainge repeatedly passing on top-billed superstars that would cost him future draft capital.
That strategy has worked in building a team that has been a postseason fixture every season besides the 2013-14 campaign since the dawn of the Paul Pierce-Kevin Garnett-Ray Allen “Big 3” Cs in 2007.
Three of the team’s current day starters were drafted by Ainge.