Pritchard is proof that Ainge’s drafts are the gift that keeps giving by the end of his tenure, when things were kind of falling apart and change loomed, a narrative took hold about Danny Ainge’s drafts: Yeah, he nailed Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, but he kept too many picks, with too little to show for them.
There’s a fair criticism buried in there, because Ainge could’ve been more aggressive dealing from his surplus in order to bolster a championship nucleus. But four years out from his last draft in Boston, we can now take a more comprehensive look at his selections and there are really only two words for his performance: home run.
If you re-ordered the 2016 to 2020 drafts, when Ainge did the bulk of his work building what became the core of Banner 18, you’ll see a common theme. Ainge’s picks have consistently outperformed their draft position.
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