NEW YORK—For the better part of two years, Celtics president Danny Ainge has been seeking to set up the franchise for the future. He was around in the late 1980s, remember, when Boston had Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, and when it came time to make changes at that point, it was actually only Ainge who was dealt. Bird, McHale and Parish declined sharply, and the Celtics fell into a funk for the bulk of the ’90s, easily the worst decade in the franchise’s storied history. Ainge didn’t want that to happen again. And he has now seen to it that it won’t. On Thursday, two days after officially allowing coach Doc Rivers to walk away and join the Clippers, getting a 2015 draft pick in...
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