Tonight, Celtics swingman Ricky Davis faces off with his former team when the Cleveland Cavaliers travel to Boston  to play the Celtics.

Davis is using this occasion to blast his former team.

"It was a great trade," Davis said of the Dec. 15 deal that sent him, Chris Mihm and Michael "Yogi" Stewart to the Celtics for Eric Williams, Tony Battie and Kedrick Brown. "I was glad to be out of the black hole. It was terrible over there. The organization. No system. The town. Everything. The GM. All of it is kind of backward. It's good to be in a winning organization that has a system and knows what's going on.

"It's a step up in everything . . . class, coaches, owners, GMs, players, winning, tradition, everything."

Davis also wishes that Cleveland wouldn't have matched Minnesota's six-year/$34 million offer sheet back in the summer of 2002.

"I wish they would have never signed me back. They made me go out and find a contract and then they signed me back. It was kind of cruddy.

"[The team] went backward. It's like the same team from last year with me scoring a lot of points and them losing games. It's pretty much the same thing. They're going to be looking for another addition next year. Hopefully, they can get another draft pick. They've got good players. They're good guys. They work hard. The guys who came from here really know how to win games. You could turn it around, but you've got the two guys up top . . . it's going to be hard to turn it around."