Remember back in 2017? When Danny Ainge stuck a spear through Isaiah Thomas’s heart and practically sacrificed his career and ripped his heart out in exchange for Kyrie Irving? Well, okay it wasn’t like that: what really happened was that Ainge led IT to believe that he would be resigned to a big contract, which caused Isaiah to play through his sister’s death without missing a single game, and forgo any surgery to his injured hip – and risk aggravating it – to help the Celtics go far in the playoffs, all for the sake of making it a more attractive destination to get players like Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Iriving – for whom Isaiah Thomas was traded for. So in a way, Thomas did get sacrificed for Kyrie. His heart was ripped out. He received a small $2 million deal from Denver – a far cry from the potential max he could have received. He hasn’t played so far this season, and his value has reduced drastically. He’s a nobody now. He was played by Danny Ainge like a damn fiddle. He was manipulated by Danny Ainge. He was Dennis system by Danny Ainge.
So it’s only fitting that the player Ainge traded him for – Kyrie Irving – would do the same thing to Ainge. Kyrie Irving at first says he’s focused on the now. Then he says that he is resigning.
https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/video/kyrie-irving-confirms-he-plans-re-sign-celtics
And now, news has come out that suggests he is non-committal. He may or may not stay. He doesn’t owe anyone anything.
Funny how that works, isn’t?
Add this to Gordon Hayward’s struggles this season, and it can best be described as “karma” for the Boston Celtics. No, I am NOT saying that Hayward deserved his injury. That was a tragedy. I’m not saying that. What I am saying is that if the NBA were to be a scripted story (which it is, obviously), it would be a pretty aggressive dose of “What Goes Around, Comes Back Around” storytelling that you’d expect to see on TV Tropes.
Not to mention, this could be the start of a rough period for the Celtics. Which free agent player would wanna go to the Celtics when they treat their players like that? Why would Anthony Davis come here? He gets injured; what if Ainge decides to screw him over? Why ever commit? That’s gonna make it hard make for them to get anybody. Look at this, by the way:
https://sports.yahoo.com/celtics-reportedly-told-pelicans-ll-125501533.html
Reports came out that the Celtics were open to trading anyone for Anthony Davis. If your a player on the Celtics, why go for that extra hustle play? Why go for that extra rebound, attempt a block? Ainge has made it clear that you’re expendable.
What went down with Isaiah Thomas was pretty savage. It’s easy to say that “it’s just business”. Well, what Kyrie is doing is just business. Passive-aggressive business, yes, but business nonetheless, similar to what Danny Ainge did. It just wouldn’t be right if the Celtitcs won a title with this current team, given their origins. Imagine if their star player, Kyrie Irving, got his jersey hanged in the rafters, and he and Gordon Hayward delivered the Celtics a title on the back (or rather hip) of Isaiah Thomas. That would be too cruel. It would be savage. It’s only fair and just that the Celtics don’t win a title on the basis of screwing over a player like that.
