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Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens is clearly a different front-office leader than Danny Ainge was towards the end of his tenure.
Ainge wasn’t gun-shy about making deals in his final year in charge, but he no longer seemed interested in making the sort of blockbuster moves he made throughout the 2010s and settled on bringing in guys like Evan Fournier, Luke Kornet, and Moritz Wagner at the trade deadline instead of taking serious swings.
The roster as it was simply didn’t cut it last year when stacked up against the Brooklyn Nets or Milwaukee Bucks, and Stevens seems willing to acknowledge that.