The contrast was stark. Down in Brooklyn, the NBA was holding its draft amid beautiful staging and much ceremony. Here in Boston, Danny Ainge enveloped the Celtics in scaffolding. In less than two weeks, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett will officially be gone to the Nets in a move that returns three first-round draft picks. The rest of the involved parties are essentially contracts to make the numbers work. In all, it constitutes a seismic shift. And all this was going on some 48 hours after the Celtics officially let Doc Rivers out of a contract that would have left him a reluctant foreman on the big Boston basketball dig. It is fair to say the architect of all this, Ainge, is wasting no...
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