On this day in 2003, current Boston Celtics team president and former shooting guard Danny Ainge was hired by the franchise in his present capacity.
Ainge replaced outgoing GM Chris Wallace, who had been with the team in that role since replacing Rick Pitino in 2001.
Ainge has had a successful tenure as president of basketball operations, winning a title in the 2007-08 NBA season, and making an NBA Finals appearance two seasons later in 2010.
His ability to seemingly always get the best of a deal has earned him the moniker “Trader Danny”, ranging from acquiring the contracts of Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett to forge the team that won Banner 17, to moving Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 that netted one of the most uneven returns in league history.
Now in his 17th season as team president, the Celtics appear poised for another title run — soon, if not this season.