Danny Ainge continues to seek a major trade to upgrade the roster of the Boston Celtics.

Boston's current roster composition doesn't blend as well as the front office would like.

The Celtics have the right to swap their 2017 first round pick with the Brooklyn Nets. 

The Celtics also own the Nets' 2018 first rounder, as well as 2019 first rounders from the Clippers and Grizzlies.

Evan Turner signed a four-year, $70 million deal with the Portland Trail Blazers after finally establishing himself in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.

“I was most definitely comfortable there,” Turner said. “Going through certain situations where there were coaches who didn’t comprehend my game and I wasn’t always in position to be comfortable sometimes. When you finally find that mixture of great basketball and off-the-court [things], you definitely don’t take it for granted.”

The Celtics have missed Turner while he hasn't quite found his place with the Blazers.

“It’s just the comfortability here and I think sometimes I worry too much about stepping on toes,” Turner said. “They have reassured me to play how I play and they will adjust. It’s always going to be a big adjustment getting the plays down. The pace of it [in the Western Conference] is crazy. The last couple of weeks I am fully getting our plays second nature to me, and once again now it’s just building the consistency.”

Kevin Durant was greeted with loud boos from Boston Celtics' fans in Friday's 104-88 win by the Golden State Warriors at the TD Garden.

Draymond Green defended his teammate and warned Celtics' fans that the tactic may deter future free agents.

"Fans must be desperate," Green said after the game. "Like, who boos a guy for taking an interview. That's crazy. Y'all booing somebody for interviewing with y'all?

"Man, they may scare free agents away. You don't want to take an interview and then make enemies for taking an interview. I don't know. They may want to be careful with that."

Durant met with the Celtics in the Hamptons.

"If you're that mad at what somebody else did with [their] life, you need to evaluate your own life," Green said. "[Durant] made a personal decision for his life, for his happiness, for his career. And if people [are] that mad, they need to re-evaluate where their head is at in life.

"I don't know if I can stay that mad at somebody for deciding to do something with their life. That's a slippery slope."

Kevin Durant met with the Boston Celtics in the offseason as one of the six teams he'd consider signing with.

"What can they be mad about?" Durant said Wednesday night ahead of his first game with the Warriors against the Celtics. "I never played there. I never said I was going there. But they're going to support their team. It's one of the best fan bases in the league -- top-five, easily. So no matter who goes in there, they're going to boo them. But I have no attachment to Boston at all."

Jae Crowder was openly annoyed Durant didn't choose to sign with the Celtics.

"We were the only team in the NBA to beat [Golden State and the Cleveland Cavaliers] on their home court. The only team in the NBA, the Boston Celtics," Crowder told MassLive.com three weeks after Durant's decision. "We told him that. We played him clips from both games and told him basically the scouting report of how we guarded Steph [Curry] and Klay [Thompson] -- our entire game plan, basically. That's what made me mad. We f---ing told him everything we do to beat these guys, and we beat them, and he went and joined them.

"Afterward, I was talking to Isaiah [Thomas], like maybe after you sit back, [we] shouldn't have told him everything, but who the f--- thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically."

Durant was asked if Crowder's comments irked him.

"Nah, it don't bother me," he said. "All these guys that you ask the same questions, you know what you're going to get from them. So you're [asking] the same questions. Why am I going to be mad about a guy who has an opinion? I respect all these players. If they don't respect what I did, I can't control that."

The Golden State Warriors have denied a rumor that they could have interest in trading Klay Thompson. 

Brian Scalabrine reported a trade scenario involving the Boston Celtics where Thompson would be traded for Avery Bradley, Jae Crowder and the 2017 first round pick of the Brooklyn Nets. The Warriors would then try to turn the Brooklyn pick into Nerlens Noel.

Thompson struggled with his shot to begin the 16-17 season but has been playing much better of late.

There reportedly have been no talks between the Warriors and Celtics, though the two front offices are known to be relatively close.

Scalabrine was an assistant coach for the Warriors during the 13-14 season.

Steve Kerr responded publicly to the trade rumors when asked by the media.

“Brian hasn’t called me yet,” said Kerr with more that a little sarcasm. “If Brian wants to call, I’ll get (general manager) Bob (Myers) on the phone and Bob and I can pick his brain and figure out what we should do.

“Honestly, I didn’t know about it until just now. I think our guys know that most of that stuff is almost always just BS. If that became a story, I would probably talk to Klay. But I didn’t know it was a story until just now. I’ll go home, get on the Internet and decide whether to call Klay or not. There’s a lot of fake news.”

Isaiah Thomas was appreciative of recent praise he received from Kevin Garnett.

"Isaiah's got so much heart and he plays so big. Very gritty, very tough," Garnett said during a segment with Rasheed Wallace in which the former NBA stars debated whether they would rather have Thomas or Cleveland's Kyrie Irving taking a final shot. "It’s a point guard league. The point guard matchup is very difficult. ... I love Isaiah’s heart. Your point guard, a lot of times the identity of your team starts with your point guard. Isaiah, I love his heart and how he plays."

"I’m the 5-9 Kevin Garnett. That’s who I want to be," said Thomas. "[Garnett's praise] means a lot. For a guy I looked up to, who I knew I would be nothing like [in size], but just the way he prepared himself, the way he didn’t back down from anybody, and how he was so locked in. It was amazing to see that up close. For him to say that about me, that says a lot."

Thomas is averaging 26.2 points and 6.8 assists through six games this season, and is shooting a career-best 49.5 percent from the floor.

Joel Embiid is finally healthy after two seasons of sitting out following multiple foot surgeries and he looks like one of basketball's next great center.

The Celtics reportedly tried to trade up to pick Embiid in the 2014 NBA Draft.

"The Celtics were trying to trade the sixth pick that year, which ended up being Marcus Smart," said Bill Simmons. "They were trying to trade the sixth pick and the Brooklyn pick (17th overall pick) to move up to three to pick Embiid even though he was hurt."

Boston has since been linked to trade scenarios with the 76ers involving both Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor.

The Phoenix Suns traded away Isaiah Thomas to the Boston Celtics just a few months after signing him to a four-year, $27 million contract. Thomas has become an All-Star since joining the Celtics.

The Suns also traded away Goran Dragic that February of 2015, which was not a surprise given his impending free agency and disgruntled stance with the franchise.

"My agent was like, 'There might be something, but it's like a 10 percent chance,'" Thomas said. "And he didn't even bring up Boston."

Just minutes before the deadline, Danny Ainge told Brad Stevens the roster was likely going to stay intact before the Suns re-engaged the Celtis about a deal for Thomas.

"I think the biggest thing for us was, under most circumstances, [the Suns deal] would be a trade that we would do because of how we felt about Isaiah, all day long," Ainge said. "The only downside was we were going to get better in the second half of the year, when there wasn't much hope for us to really contend."

Jae Crowder will miss at least one week after suffering a left ankle sprain.

Crowder's ankle twisted awkwardly after landing on the foot of Rajon Rondo in the second quarter.

"Jae sprained his ankle; that's all I know," Brad Stevens said. "I was told that it would be at least a week, and then we'll see after. But I don't think we're into it enough to make an assessment on that timeline. It doesn't sound like he'll be back any time soon."

Boston was already without Al Horford who is in the NBA's concussion protocol.

Al Horford has been placed in the NBA's concussion protocol after taking a hit in the head during the Boston Celtics' practice on Monday.

Horford is averaging 12.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.7 assists in 29.3 minutes over his first three games with the Celtics.