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June 26

Akron Beacon Journal

He's Danny Ferry, not Danny Ainge. And the general manager of the Cavaliers has no illusions of matching what his colleague did last summer. With two major trades, Ainge revived the Boston Celtics and turned them into NBA champions. He dumped a few contracts and players on the Seattle SuperSonics to get Ray Allen on draft night a year ago and later acquired Kevin Garnett from the Minnesota Timberwolves for five players and two first-round picks, a bold move that sent shock waves through the league that are still being felt. As he prepares for the NBA Draft tonight, Ferry, whose flawed team pushed the Celtics to a seventh game in the Eastern Conference semifinals, doesn't feel any pressure to matchAinge. ''It was a perfect storm for Danny,'' Ferry said. ''Obviously, it worked out very well. . . . He made all of us look bad, and that will be a standard that everyone will be talking about for a while. I'm not so sure it can be duplicated.''

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