6. Boston Celtics. Brad Stevens has only been in charge for three full seasons since he moved up from the sideline to replace Danny Ainge, but the rest of the Celtics’ organizational infrastructure has been there roughly forever, including vice president of basketball operations Mike Zarren and assistant general managers Austin Ainge and Dave Lewin. The Celtics may have built their team on the elder Ainge’s 2013 swindle of the Brooklyn Nets that yielded the draft picks that became Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, but it was Boston’s more recent work to build around those two under Stevens that won great admiration.
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