Danny Ainge's appointment in Boston can be described as quiet, after Pitino's departure last year, the Celtics experienced a change of coach and the return of Auerbach, and the media page at that time was occupied by green for a while, but everyone's focus was mainly on the return of the bishop to the Celtics, and the former veteran of the Green Army was mentioned as the president of the Celtics.

After all, Auerbach was too radiant, which also gave Angie good cover to be able to quietly carry out his work at the Celtics. In particular, on the non-basketball side, he reorganized personnel and invested in team promotion. In addition, the personnel of medical care and transportation arrangements have been adjusted, and investment in this area has been increased, and a group of experts who are strong and well-known in their fields have been recruited to join the team.

At the same time, he also did some significant political work, such as sending a 1981 Celtics championship ring to Wayne Clayclow, a player who played briefly with the Celtics during the 1981 season, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their 1981 championship, for which Claylaw was grateful and the media praised him.

These actions that are not easy to attract attention have gradually reversed the adverse effects of Celtic in recent years due to poor results, blind tossing and poor management of Pitino, and the media has less sarcasm about Celtic, and the rumors and rumors from the beginning of the season have disappeared with the steady improvement of the team's results, and the players and team workers have a quiet and stable working environment, which is often easy to ignore for the construction of a team.

There are always people who think that trading a few big stars can win immediately, but they don't know that the players need strong logistics to play steadily and efficiently, without distractions, and this is exactly what Ange has been doing this season.

But Angie won't do that all the time, he knows that the core of a team is still in the players, and what he does best is in sourcing players and trading. He has been a star in American sports since high school, not just basketball, but he was more famous in baseball in his early years, and was drafted by major league teams to play for him early. Finally, it was Auerbach's persuasion that he gave up baseball to come to the Celtics and begin his basketball career.

In his career, he has played four teams, the Celtics, the Trail Blazers, the Suns and the Kings, and he has been to the Finals with the other three teams except the Kings and has played a very key role in the team. He has a smart personality, plays smart, and is very popular, and was the microphone for Bird and McHale during his time with the Celtics. These traits set him up to become the coach of the Suns.

However, Angie's coaching experience with the Suns was not pleasant, especially after the Suns traded for the Mavericks' top guard Jason Kidd, and Angie, who is also a point guard, fell out with the grumpy superstar. During the 2000 season, Kidd publicly expressed his reluctance to play for Angie, who soon announced that he was "resigning as coach of the Suns for family reasons." ”

After returning to Boston, Auerbach repeatedly persuaded Angie to come to the Celtics for a job as president, just as he persuaded Angie to quit baseball and pursue basketball. At first, Angie never agreed, although Angie has a lot of feelings for the Celtics, but such a mess is not something that can be picked up by relying on feelings.

The turning point came at that training camp in Marshfield, where Angie met Leon, and like Auerbach he saw the magic in Leon, just

He didn't expect Auerbach to start scouting Leon so soon and de facto identify him as his successor.

Danny Angie has never been prepared for Auerbach's successor, especially when Auerbach is alive, he doesn't want to have such a burden on his head, just like Jordan's retirement after people are keen to designate Jordan's successor, people are often burdened by false fame.

Leon's presence provided cover for Angie, and he finally approached Auerbach in September for an in-depth conversation and agreed to take the presidency of Celtic, which was the last straw for Auerbach's decision to make an early move and force Pitino to step down.

In this way, Pitino's original position was divided between Angie, O'Brien, and Wallace, and the Celtics ended the dictatorship that began in 1997 and entered a wonderful period of triangular democracy. No one person has the highest authority over the team's operations, including Auerbach, who became the team's vice president and focused on developing Leon and was not involved in specific affairs.

After cleaning up the corners of the corner over the course of a season, Angie finally focused his work on draft pick operations and player trades just around the corner as the '01 draft approached. Before the Boston coaching staff flew to Chicago, the management trio had had countless meetings about the draft's strategy and related trades, and apparently everyone in Boston knew it could be a game-changing draft of the year.

Three rookies are undoubtedly a lot for the Celtics, and a trade is almost inevitable.

After the coaching staff arrived in Chicago, Fox Leon's scouting reports and draft reports continued to snowflake at the Celtics headquarters, and Angie worked on them while calling the general managers of each team one by one. It's a routine job as the president of the team and you have to keep in touch with other teams.

The NBA is not exactly a transaction, and relationships play a role beyond many people's imagination, with some well-connected teams trading frequently for mutual benefit, while some teams never get along, or even tear each other down.

Although Angie resigned from the Suns, he played there for three years and was a coach for three years, and the Suns' general manager and president, Brian Colangerway, served as general manager in 1995, and that season Ange also became the head coach of the Suns, and the two had a good relationship with each other for many years, so Angie's first call was to Colanger Road.

The main goal of the Suns in this draft is to get a good backcourt, but their draft pick has been sold to the Boston Celtics, and they are willing to trade the pick back, or the Celtics select their favorite player and then trade it.

But feelings are feelings, business is business, the Suns do not have the chips that the Celtics want, and the initial contact between the two sides is also stranded and needs to continue to wait. Angie then turned her attention to teams in the Atlantic region, with Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey all having deep friendships with the Celtics, and although they have historically played each other, they have been good partners in the offseason.

However, the 76ers are the defending champions of the Eastern Conference, and the focus of the offseason is to keep the roster stable and appropriately not strong, and the huge success of Iverson's activities with the 76ers has made the Phillies full of hope for next season.

As for the New York Knicks and the New Jersey Nets, the Twin Cities brothers have shown some interest in the Celtics' draft picks, but they have both said that they will decide what kind of exchange they want to make after the dust settles in the draft, and they will not make any commitments before that.

But in the NBA, Angie knows that he must be patient in any situation, and the Celtics have suffered too much in the past two years, and the loss of rushing to the hospital in a hurry, Angie spent about two weeks roughly figuring out the draft direction of each team, and affirmed Leon's strategy of picking Arenas with the 21st pick, judging from the current market, there is almost no risk in getting Arenas in this position, and the only risk is that it may anger this proud young man.

After a week in Boston, when Chicago's rookie camp ended, Angie bought a plane ticket to Tennessee, and with three days left before the draft, he was heading to Elvis Presley's hometown and meeting up with Fox Leon to negotiate a deal with the Grizzlies.

After deciding that the main decision was to knock out the San Antonio Spurs, the Celtics have been looking for an accomplice who could allow the Celtics to further fight for the greater good without wasting draft picks, which was agreed upon by Leon, Angie and Auerbach. Only Chris Wallace was a little uncomfortable, but he was also sent to Memphis, and as the initiator of the trade, the Celtics needed to show a little sincerity.