Suns General Manager Ryan McDonough and Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge didn’t just work together for a decade. They became good friends.
Which makes the emerging story that the Suns might have had something to do with Josh Jackson cancelling his pre-draft workout for Boston – and thus falling into Phoenix’s lap with the No. 4 pick Thursday – all the more delicious.
Here’s the backdrop: The Celtics’ team plane was en route to Sacramento last week to work out Jackson when Ainge got the word that the workout had been cancelled.