It didn't happen but objectively the Celtics got better, if only slightly, and didn't have a bottom 5 offseason simply because Danny couldn't accomplish what I wanted fast enough.
Eventually I have confidence that Ainge will land that star and that this season of marginal movement forward will be worth it. Just gotta have patience.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong to rate other teams' off-seasons as worse. I just disagree, but I think the ranking is subjective. Like I said earlier, I could have put a handful of other teams in that #5 spot, but I care more about the Celtics, so I find their off-season more disappointing.
Like I said earlier in the thread, I only think a couple of teams really got screwed this off-season. So, that means if you're making a top 5, you've got to include at least a couple teams that had merely disappointing off-seasons, rather than disastrous ones.
From my perspective, the marginal improvement that the Celtics managed doesn't really mean much (if anything it's a minor negative, since I don't view Lee or Amir as future pieces and I don't much care about winning 45 games).
The other aspect of it for me is that I think the first few years of a rebuild are very important for setting up what comes later. In that sense, a lack of substantial progress forward is itself a set-back.