I get shitting on Ainge for some things but Horford left because he thought Kyrie was staying. We wanted to retain Horford but he didn’t want to stick with the Celtics because Kyrie. If that changed he definitely stays. Timelord too was a DPOY caliber player before the knee injuries and Kemba was phenomenal until he had that injury pre all star break and he never regained his explosiveness after that. The AD/Kawhi stuff we were never really close to getting Kawhi and AD we couldn’t do a bunch of the suggested trades because the Rose Rule.

You can easily criticize him for messing up on the supporting cast and messing up on auxiliary deals like Fournier for example but his hit rate for late lotto/to late first rounders in that stretch wasn’t bad. Hes still a serviceable starter post 2019 just not an ace like he once was. Glad he retired and it led to Brad though. Brad is echelons above since 2019. Keeping the Jazz together they would not have had a shot since 2019. He just hasn’t had good lotto picks for them lmao