A little more than six months before he was named CEO of the Jazz, Danny Ainge sat at a podium with Brad Stevens and told reporters why he was finished as president of basketball operations with the Celtics.
“I don’t know what my future holds,” Ainge said at the time. “I don’t have any plans right now. My goal is to get Brad up to speed on the draft … our whole staff will be able to help and try to make this transition, and [put the Celtics in] as good a place as we can be.