The Celtics made a pitch to free agent forward Antonio McDyess recently, but the former Piston wasn't interested.
Rumors after Antonio's trade from Detroit to Denver were that McDyess would take a buyout and return to the Pistons, and that is looking even more likely now.
Ainge spoke to Andy Miller, the agent for McDyess.
"We spoke," Ainge said, "but I didn't get any sense that we should be optimistic about it."