There is a school of thought around team building that aims to add as much talent to a ball club as possible, with fit and chemistry being seen as issues to work out later. And when the Boston Celtics dabbled in that philosophy under former team president Danny Ainge, it came back to bite them in a major way with regard to the Kyrie Irving trade.
But it actually worked out okay in the end, with the Celtics managing to use some crafty moves to salvage the loss of Irving when he left in free agency, putting together the team we know today from the ashes of that misstep. And that got Boston included in a recent article highlighting squads that actually improved by getting worse on paper by Clutch Points’ Spencer See.
