With the encouragement of team patriarch Red Auerbach, the Celtics hired former player and Phoenix Suns Coach Danny Ainge as the new Director of Basketball Operations. Ainge wasted little time reshaping the roster, sending three-time All-Star Antoine Walker and starting guard Tony Delk to the Dallas Mavericks just a week before the 2003-04 season started. […]

Coming off a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals and a mid-summer trade that brought four-time All-Star Vin Baker to Boston, there was real optimism about the Celtics for the first time in a decade. During the 2002-03 campaign, the Celtics won 44 games and made the playoffs for the second consecutive season, but Baker […]