Truck backed up and Ainge knew he wasnt worth it so he shipped him out. There were even tons of people at the time saying IT would crash back to earth that he wasnt really that good, yet when he was shipped out people acted like Ainge used and abused Micharl Jordan.

People cried about how Ainge did him dirty and IT went on to be injury riddled and stink when he did actually play.

Those same people who think Ainge is a jerk are the ones who would have called Ainge a laughing stock if he had paid IT the contract he wanted.

Sucks the way it turned out for IT but acting like Ainge did anything wrong is nuts. 2 years later IT is begging for a CHANCE on a team.

(I know you didnt specifically mention Ainge but people constantly bring up how big of a jerk Ainge is when IT is mentioned which is really just anti-celtics bias, which is fine if there is actually a valid argument)