Danny Ainge tells Comcast SportsNet New England's Greg Dickerson that he has no second thoughts -- at the moment -- about the trade that sent Kendrick Perkins to Oklahoma City.
But ask him again in a few months, and he might have a different answer.
"I would do the trade over again in a heartbeat, as of today," said Ainge. "But at the end of the season, I'll look at all the things and I'll be the first one to say . . . some things that we could have done or that we didn't, or things that we did do that we shouldn't have."
Ainge flatly rejected the notion that the Celtics lost their toughness with the trade of Perkins.
"That would embarrass me if I was Kevin Garnett or Paul Pierce or Ray Allen or Rajon Rondo or whoever else," he said. "We got one guy that's tough? That's ridiculous . . .
"It's a team thing. It has nothing to with the presence of one guy."