Everyone in the league knows Danny Ainge and the Boston Celtics are enamored with New Orleans Pelicans superstar big man Anthony Davis, and ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski just reassured that this weekend.

In an ESPN special with fellow insider Zach Lowe, Wojnarowski said the Celtics have been “hawking Anthony Davis for years.”

“Boston has been hawking Anthony Davis for years,” Wojnarowski said, via Nick Goss of NBC Sports Boston. “They always hoped that it would be, whether it's the end of this season or the beginning of next before the trade deadline, that they would gather up all those assets, all those picks Danny Ainge has and young players, and they'd be the team to be able to get Anthony Davis. But now you have L.A. and if they get shut out in free agency, they're going to have to take all their young players to try to use them to get Anthony Davis.”

Davis can become an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2020. The Pelicans can offer Davis the supermax contract next summer, one which would pay AD $235 million over five years. If The Brow turns that extension down, though, New Orleans might be forced to trade the former No. 1 overall pick out of fear of losing him for nothing.

The Celtics have a bevy of young assets and draft picks that the Pelicans would love to have if they have to trade Anthony Davis, who is arguably the best big man in the NBA. It's important to note that Boston can't trade for Davis as long as Kyrie Irving is on the roster because of the “Rose rule,” which is named after Derrick Rose.