A trade negotiation is not "trying to win a trade". A trade should benefit both Teams in the end.
If Ainge is waiting to win a trade, he's in the wrong business.
Are you kidding me?
Other teams have been trying to pull fast ones on us because we are the cash cows. Danny is just waiting for another team to be just as vulnerable because we don't have any leverage besides turning trades down.
Obviously "winning a trade" is not DA's goal. Trades that are actually made benefit both teams. However, I speculate that other GMs are leery of dealing with Ainge because they don't want to make the deal that puts the Celtics over the top, even if it benefits them.
Trades are made because the teams involved think the trade will help accomplish their own goals. GMs want to win trades in the sense of getting more value back than they are giving up. If the other team benefits too that's fine but it is only important that they perceive the trade is beneficial to them.
Ainge is generally perceived as overvaluing his players which makes trades a bit less likely. He could have traded Pierce earlier but didn't get the value he wanted which ended up working out well because the Nets got desperate. When a team gets desperate, a good GM will try to milk them for all they can get.
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