The Trail Blazers fired GM Neil Olshey over the weekend, and former Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge appears to be a natural candidate.
Whether or not Ainge would have interest in leading the Blazers is unclear — at the introductory press conference for Brad Stevens as president of basketball operations, Ainge seemed to suggest he had little interest in taking over another GM job. But according to longtime Portland reporter Dwight Jaynes, the Blazers have not even reached out to Ainge.
Ainge grew up in Eugene, OR, and has family ties to Utah (which isn’t close to Portland but is certainly closer than Boston).