This was supposed to be the summer where Danny Ainge was backing up a Brink's truck to Isaiah Thomas' front steps to keep him in Boston. Instead, following a hip injury that seems to have front offices turned off, IT only had one true offer - a fact that he calls "disrespectful" - to join the Denver Nuggets on a one-year, $2.4 million deal.
Woj sat down with Isaiah and talked about a number of things, many of which were still drawn back to his connections to Boston. But what stands out the most from their conversation is how IT reached out to Ainge about a potential return to Boston:
Before finalizing the agreement with Denver, Thomas had reached out to Boston GM Danny Ainge.