The Celtics will have the unique displeasure of going up against Giannis Antetokounmpo tonight in Milwaukee, and all I can think of is the scene from “Cocktail” when Tom Cruise fights off the doorman, heads to the elevator with Elisabeth Shue and turns to the rich and disapproving father to say, “It didn’t have to be this way, you know.”
But while you think of me with appropriate disgust and perhaps plan an intervention, let’s take a look back at June 27, 2013, and the events that led to Danny Ainge passing on the chance to bring Antetokounmpo from Athens, Greece, to the Athens of America.