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Danny Ainge won’t hesitate to make a deal

Won’t repeat mistakes of Bird-McHale-Parish era

By Gary Washburn

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 19, 2012

The Celtics president won’t allow his core of All-Stars to age and decline drastically the way Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish did in the early 1990s.

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