Boston Celtics team president Danny Ainge appeared on ESPN’s “Hoop Streams” show in April 2020 to talk about Boston’s 2008 NBA Championship among several other topics. At that time, it was hosted by Cassidy Hubbarth and joined by former Celtics champion center Kendrick Perkins as well as Amin Elhassan.
Spurred by Garnett’s Hall of Fame election that had recently been announced, Hubbarth soon arrived at the origin story of the so-called “new Big Three” (as Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen have been called in reference to the 1980s banner-hanging frontcourt trio of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish).
Asked about the conversation in which the BYU alum convinced the Big Ticket to accept a trade to Boston, Ainge replied at length.