Danny Ainge met with the Utah Jazz last week and is a candidate to join their front office. Ainge is being considered for an advisory role just a few weeks after he left the Boston Celtics.

Justin Zanik will remain as Utah's primary decision-maker either way.

Dennis Lindsey exited as Utah's executive vice president of basketball operations on Sunday in a decision made by Ryan Smith.

Smith is known to have a close relationship with Ainge. 

The Boston Celtics will hire Ime Udoka as their next head coach.

Boston and Udoka are finalizing an agreement.

Udoka spent this past season as an assistant coach with the Brooklyn Nets. Udoka was an assistant coach with the San Antonino Spurs for several seasons and was an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers during the 19-20 season.

The Celtics received strong recommendations for Udoka from Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart, who played for him during the 2019 FIBA World Cup.

Darvin Ham and Chauncey Billups were also considered top candidates in Boston's search process. 

Ime Udoka is believed to be "at the top of the Boston [Celtics] list" to become their next head coach.

Udoka spent this past season as an assistant coach with the Brooklyn Nets after one season with the Philadelphia 76ers and several seasons with the San Antonio Spurs.

Brad Stevens is running Boston's coaching search after he vacated the position to run the front office. 

The relationship between Kemba Walker and Brad Stevens was reportedly filled with tension, sources told Jared Weiss of The Athletic.

Stevens was perceived to be harder on Walker than other star players, including criticizing him for defensive mistakes.

Despite their disagreements, Stevens and Walker had a productive relationship with mutual respect for each other.

Walker's health issues, the team's performance, and boos from TD Garden fans made him willing to accept a trade this offseason.

Multiple players reportedly welcomed a coaching change from Stevens, who many felt favored Marcus Smart over others.

After inquiring about a potential midseason move, a Celtics player told Blake Griffin not to come to the team due to the dysfunction.

Walker was traded on Friday to the Thunder. 

The Boston Celtics believe their odds of re-signing Evan Fournier have improved following Friday's trade of Kemba Walker in a package for Al Horford.

The Celtics acquired Fournier from the Orlando Magic at the trade deadline.

Fournier averaged 13.0 points, 3.3 rebound and 3.1 assists in 16 games with the Celtics. Fournier contracted COVID-19 in April and continued to feel the effects of the virus even upon his return.

The Boston Celtics hope to interview Ime Udoka, Darvin Ham and Chauncey Billups for a second time.

All three candidates remain in the ongoing playoffs as assistant coaches.

The Celtics' coaching search continues to focus on current assistants. 

The Boston Celtics have agreed to trade Kemba Walker, the No. 16 pick in the 2021 draft and a 2025 second rounder to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Al Horford, Moses Brown and a 2023 second round pick.

Horford left the Celtics to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers during the 2019 offseason. Horford has two years and $53.5 million left on his contract, with a partial guarantee of $14.5 million for 2022-23.

Walker is due $73 million over the next two seasons. With the Thunder in the middle of a rebuild, they plan on working with Walker as they previously did with Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and Horford.

The move marks the first for Brad Stevens since taking over the Boston front office.

Oklahoma City now owns three first round picks in the 2021 NBA draft.

On January 25th 2019, Kyrie Irving had Kevin Durant over for dinner at his home outside Boston on the eve of a nationally televised game between he Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors, according to accounts described in Matt Sullivan's new book 'Can't Knock The Hustle.'.

Irving and Durant were a few months away from becoming free agents. For Irving, it would be his first time experiencing free agency. A few months prior, Irving publicly said he intended to re-sign with the Celtics but the death of his grandfather a few weeks later sent him into a period of depression.

Durant had won two straight titles with the Warriors, but he didn't think the team would get any better if Steve Kerr didn't hold Draymond Green accountable for his outbursts and was also occasionally irked by the attention Stephen Curry received from the media and fans.

Durant ate a vegan burger for the first time that night and a superteam began to take shape with Irving. 

Irving and Durant saw the Nets as a franchise with two max salary slots, a flexible general manager and a few existing supporting pieces already in place.

"And from that point," Irving said, "we took the power back and put it in our hands."

Durant and Irving eventually committed to the Nets and also made sure they also signed DeAndre Jordan.

"I don’t think there was a moment when Ky took it over from us," a Nets executive involved in his recruitment told Sullivan. "We all understood — basically everybody who is following the NBA understands — he’s a personality. But we were at a point where we thought the organization is strong enough, and the culture is strong enough, to survive or absorb different personalities. Whether that assumption is true remains to be seen."

Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell were not voted onto an All-NBA Team and will have a their rookie max extensions remain at 25 percent of the cap.

If either Tatum or Mitchell had made one of the All-NBA teams, they would have become elgible for a starting salary at 30 percent of the cap and $33 million over five years. 

Tatum was 20 points away from a third team selection behind Paul George.

Jayson Tatum has committed to play for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics.

Tatum joins Damian Lillard and Draymond Green as the first commits for the United States.

Tatum averaged 10.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists over two games in the 2019 World Cup before he suffered an ankle injury.