Danny Ainge has not been known to stay down after taking a shot to the chin. He just took a good one a couple of weeks ago, and after a standing eight count to clear the cobwebs, Ainge is back on his feet and ready to throw some haymakers of his own.

We’ve laid out a lot of possibilities for the Boston Celtics and how to use their space, but we haven’t looked at what a super-aggressive Ainge could do in this market.

Until now.

This is Frank Ricard funneling a beer and becoming “Frank the Tank”-level stuff. This is Bruce Banner saying “I’m always angry” and unleashing The Hulk. This is Ainge going full “Trader Danny” to re-cast his lost pieces into players who, with a little different chemistry, might do this year what couldn’t be done last year.

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Step 1: Hope for a little luck (and schadenfreude)

The Los Angeles Lakers need players, but right now they can’t get to a full max contract slot without some maneuvering. The first step in this plan is hope Rob Pelinka can actually not execute that maneuvering.

If he can’t, then he’ll have to pivot to filling a lot of spots with a little money. Ainge is going to help, but not with his own players.

Trade: Indiana Pacers send newly acquired TJ Warren and TJ Leaf to Los Angeles for a protected second round pick.

This is a straight salary dump. Ainge orchestrates this to help the Pacers clear cap space. The Lakers get two players for a combined $13 million, including a young player locked up for a few years that they can either use off the bench or use as trade bait in the future.

Caveat: It doesn’t have to be the Lakers. I’m searching for a cap team that has a need for players. These guys could go to 2 different teams, as long as they’re off Indiana’s books.

Step 2: Indiana Pacers renounce their remaining free agents (except Bojan Bogdanovic)

This move creates $32.9 million in cap space even with Bogdanovic’s cap hold.

Step 3: Convince Gordon Hayward to waive his trade kicker

You see where this is going.

We’re going to send Hayward home to Indiana, but it can only happen if Hayward agrees to waive his 15 percent trade kicker.

“This is going to be a good move for everyone,” fake Danny Ainge would tell fake Hayward. “You’re back, you’re healthy, you’re home. It’s a fresh start. We love you, but we’re moving in a different direction.”

“OK,” fake Hayward would say. At least he does in this scenario because this is how it all works.

Step 4: Trade Hayward into Indiana’s cap space

The Pacers will now have Hayward, presumably healthy and ready to return to an All Star level. He’s going back home to Indiana, where the storybook return and road to redemption makes him a hero, which does wonders for his confidence.

The Pacers then re-sign Bogdanovic, and have a nice trio there when Victor Oladipo returns.

Caveat: It doesn’t have to be the Pacers, but trading Hayward home is probably the one way to make this all happen and keep everyone happy. It also feels more likely that the Pacers are willing to take a shot at this because they’re not a huge free agent destination. Also, they could try to convince Hayward to opt out of his deal next year and sign long-term to stay home. Since Bird Rights transfer with the player in the trade, this could be the chance to lock up a really good partner for Oladipo (assuming, obviously, he’s fully healthy and at least close to his former self).

Step 5: Renounce all of the free agents (except maybe Marcus Morris)

Let’s hang on to Mook for now. Boston now has $56.5 million in cap space. Renouncing Mook makes it $65.8 million, but we can do that later.

Step 6: Sign Kemba Walker to a max contract

That’s a four-year, $140 million deal that starts at $32.7 million.

Caveat: It doesn’t have to be Kemba. In fact, if I had to guess, I’d say he’s staying in Charlotte. But he’s the hot rumor right now so let’s roll with it. Insert your own max guy here if you’d like.

We’ve still got $24.7 million in cap space.

Step 7: Sign a second-tier free agent

Let’s roll with the rumors and say it’s Nikola Vucevic and he can be had at something like four-years, $90.1 million. I’m starting his first year salary at $21.1 million.

Caveat: It doesn’t have to be Vucevic. In fact, I think a team like the Sacramento Kings will give him a max offer and that’s just too much. So maybe this is the offer sheet you throw at Malcolm Brogdon to make Milwaukee balk at paying a big tax bill and the max free agent is someone else. Play it however you want. The point here is, there’s one max slot and one second-tier slot.

There is still $4.5 million to spend as well as a room mid-level exception worth $4.7 million (they can’t be combined)

Step 8: Fill out the roster

- Sign second-round pick Carsen Edwards to a contract worth end-of-first round money.

- Re-sign Daneil Theis with cap space. This is a little trick that actually allows Boston to pay him more money. They could have made him a restricted free agency offer of $1.8 million and the most they could have offered him was $2.4 million due to only having “early Bird rights” instead of full Bird rights. It’s complicated, but now that we’ve got cap space, We’ll bring Theis back for depth on a two-year, $6.2 million deal for depth.

- Sign a shooter with the room mid-level. I’ve locked onto Darius Miller out of New Orleans for some wing depth. At this point we can give him the full room mid-level if we want, it doesn’t impact much.

Caveat: Obviously you can fill out the roster however you want, but just know that there’s cap space and mechanisms to fill it.

Step 9: Re-sign Marcus Morris

Welcome back Mook! We’ve been operating so far with a $10.2 million cap hold. Boston has 13 players on the roster and we’re looking for a veteran off the bench (and maybe I’d like to keep a good quote guy in the locker room. Can’t I be a little selfish too?)

Since we held onto Morris’ Bird rights, we can sign him to whatever we want. I think Marcus Smart-ish money is good, so Mook gets a three-year, $40 million deal starting at $12.4 million next season.

Caveat: It doesn’t have to be Morris. If your choices were to sign a wing and a big with the cap space, you could renounced Morris’ rights and hold onto Terry Rozier’s and pay him instead. Also, there’s that alternate scenario I mentioned where Boston could open two max slots to sign anyone with less than 10 years of NBA service. Those guys, like Kevin Durant, who can get 35 percent of the cap and a starting salary of more than $37 million. That’s too expensive.

Step 10: Relax

This was a lot of maneuvering. Sit down. Have a drink. Chill out for a day.

A few things have to break Boston’s way for this scenario to play out, but the point here is that if Ainge wanted to get super-aggressive about re-building this team in a hurry, he could do it. It probably won’t be with the exact players I laid out here, but the point isn’t to predict the future, it’s to show you that Boston doesn’t have to be limited to just signing one player this summer.

Ainge and the Celtics have the ability to sign multiple big-name players if they can get the commitments and a little bit of help. They can create tools that can be used down the road to help build this team in a lot of different ways.

And with Ainge on the phones… you never know what he could pull off.

Note: An earlier reference to creating a traded player exception was removed due to an error in interpreting the CBA