
Perhaps more than any other person, former Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge played a key role in assembling the iconic championship Celtics basketball team of Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen.
A trio often known as “the new Big Three” in a nod to Boston legends Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale, Allen, Garnett, and Pierce brought the first NBA title to the city of Boston since 1986, the final championship season of the “original” Big Three of Bird, Parish, and McHale, who Ainge played alongside.