Last week’s edition of Danny Ainge’s weekly appearance on 98.5 The SportsHub’s Toucher & Rich Show was spent in large part defending Marcus Smart amid his suspension for a postgame interaction with an official. This week’s jampacked chat was spent... well, not dissimilarly. Ainge would defend Smart for a different kind of offense, if you will, but perhaps more pressing was his update on the status of Jaylen Brown.
“It’s looking like he’ll probably be returning on Sunday,” Ainge told Toucher and Rich, responding to their question about Brown’s health heading into a crucial matchup with Miami this coming Sunday.