For years, former Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge was notorious for hoarding assets— most notably, the plethora of first-round draft picks that he’d accumulated after the Big Three era. Naturally, Boston was consistently tied to trade rumors under Ainge, largely due to the pile of assets at his disposal.
Fortunately for the Cs, he was very picky with the deals he’d actually go through with and those assets turned into players like Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.
Now, two years removed from Ainge’s “retirement” (which was just his reasoning for stepping down and eventually heading home to Utah), there’s a new draft-pick-collecting sheriff in town.