There have been a lot of fans and analysts looking back on the work done by Danny Ainge during his tenure as the team’s President of Basketball Operations in a much fairer light given the former Boston Celtics chief has his fingerprints all over this iteration of the team about to kick off a Finals series against the Golden State Warriors.
But there remains a subset of both who still wonder about his exit, which came to fruition while the team was still fighting to figure things out in a season that fizzled frustratingly, leading to Ainge stepping down as team president. Asked about that exit on a recent appearance on the WEEI “Greg Hill” show, Celtics co-governor Wyc Grousbeck had plenty of good things to say about his former top exec — and one key caveat regarding the state of their current relationship.
“He was so instrumental while he was here,” explained Grousbeck.
