There are always silver linings amid misfortune. You just have to find them. Or sometimes, they are in plain view. Seeing Gordon Hayward's photo wearing Celtics #20 reminded me of my chance meeting with a previous wearer of that number, Larry Siegfried, at a very low point in his life. But that is another story, and it has a silver lining.
We have that brightness in plain view, and Danny Ainge knew it all along. He knew how good Jayson Tatum is, but all we heard was that he was a rookie and would be brought along slowly.