Danny Ainge dismissed the suggestion the Boston Celtics may be better without Kyrie Irving.

The Celtics had an impressive win at the Philadelphia 76ers last week and also reached the Eastern Conference Finals last season without Irving.

“It’s completely illogical. It makes no sense," Ainge said. "If you just look at the data over the past two years our team has been so much better. It wasn’t but a month ago that we were trying to figure out ‘how in the world are we going to score without Kyrie on the court.’ And everybody was struggling and going through their challenges. I mean now we’re getting a lot of good play out of a lot of good guys. The last couple of nights Jayson Tatum and Gordon Hayward and Al Horford, they’re playing great basketball. And Jaylen Brown has really stepped up his game over the past couple of months even and really bought into his role off the bench. So I feel like we just all need to all play well, but Kyrie is by far our most efficient offensive player, without question. And our team, when Kyrie is on the court over the past two years, is by far more efficient with Kyrie playing than when he’s not. So no, I think it’s ridiculous to think.”

Irving will be a free agent this offseason.