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It’s tempting to say that the next three and a half weeks are the most important stretch of Danny Ainge’s tenure as the man making the basketball decisions for the Celtics. It’s tempting, but it’s wrong.
The most important time in Ainge’s career as an executive happened in the summer of 2007 when he traded half his roster for Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, delivering not only a championship, but also four-plus seasons of relevant basketball in Boston. Those were Ainge’s signature moves and required years of planning, solid drafting and an immense amount of timing and luck to pull off.
Ainge doesn’t have years before the March 15 trade deadline, but he’s been planning...
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