Ainge said Boston is in a better position now than before acquiring Garnett and Allen

Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said that the franchise is in a better position than they acquired both Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen.

Per Boston Globe, “I think we’re in a better position,” Ainge said in a video discussion live-streamed to Celtics’ season ticket-holders earlier this week. “I think it’s similar, though. We did have some good young players in Al Jefferson, who was a wanted commodity around the league. We were able to get Kevin Garnett for Al Jefferson [and] he was a big part of that.
“We have a lot of draft picks . . . I think our positioning is better.”
Celtics president Rich Gotham, who also participated in the discussion, sided with Ainge.
“We’ve got 10 first-round draft picks over the next five years,” Gotham said. “We’ve created enough salary-cap space that we can be opportunistic when opportunities present themselves, either at trading deadlines or when the draft comes up, and we feel like we’ve developed our young players this year.
“So when we gauge our season, that’s how I’m gauging it. I think we’ve executed well [with] those three things. I think we’re in a better place than we were last year even though the win-loss record doesn’t necessarily reflect that.”