Danny Ainge is catching a lot of heat these days.
His Celtics team is sitting at .500 with the club's two main offseason acquisitions -- Tristan Thompson and Jeff Teague -- offering less-than-stellar showings to this point. And outside Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, finding a reliable third scoring option has been, to be kind, uncertain.
There is also the image of Gordon Hayward averaging better than 21 points per game (although he did hurt his hand Monday night).
Now comes news it's not just the fans who are mad at Ainge. The Celtics general manager has also riled up some of his fellow GMs, according to NBA insider Ric Bucher, who appeared on Colin Cowherd's podcast:
"A lot of GMs are ticked off at Danny [Ainge] because Danny tried like hell to move Kemba [Walker] at the beginning of the year, knowing that his knee wasn't right. He was trying to get rid of damaged goods. And that's the issue that Kemba is dealing with, and at his size, it's a little bit like Isaiah Thomas. This is the second little point guard in a row he's run into that has a physical issue and it changes everything. In the regular season, you can kind of get away with it and disguise it, but when you play the best teams, they're going to exploit that he's undersized and can't move the same way that he once could."
Walker has been eased back into regular action due to his knee injury, living with a minutes restriction since returning Jan. 17.
The guard is shooting a career-worst 37 percent from the floor while averaging 17 points and 28.9 minutes per game.
