The Los Angeles Lakers turned their season around with a series of much-needed moves at

the NBA Trade Deadline — and the credit for their upturn in fortunes could well be placed at the door of LeBron James' enemy Danny Ainge.

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James and Ainge, the former Boston Celtics player and current Utah Jazz CEO of basketball operations, never faced each other on

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the court and are over two decades apart in age.

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However the two have been rivals for some time as their paths intertwined over the last 15 years.

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When he worked for the Celtics, Ainge constructed a roster led by

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Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce to ultimately defeat James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, doing so in

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the 2008 and 2010 playoffs. The Celtics team perhaps led James to join the Miami Heat in free agency - and the rivalry deepened from there.

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