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Right now, the Celts have just two natural guards who play significant minutes off the bench. Neither Avery Bradley (4 ppg. , 1.2 apg.) nor Keyon Dooling (6 ppg. , 1 apg.) is a significant enough contributor to sway GM Danny Ainge from making a move. ...
Yes, guys like Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen can run the floor, but these guys are not able to do it for 40 plus minutes. They can do it for stretches, but that just is not going to get the job done if Doc is serious about picking up the...
Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo heads into a meeting with general manager Danny Ainge during NBA basketball training camp in Waltham, Mass. , Friday Dec. 9, 2011. View Photo »
Every year is a challenge and brings different challenges ... We have a list of players that we'd like to get. ... Right now, there's a lot of money out there, a lot of teams with (salary) cap space, so players are waiting for the big pay days. So we have to be patient in this process.
There is one aspect of basketball where women seem to have an edge over men. Free-throw shooting. Travis Hansen talks with Danny Ainge about family and basketball. BYU typically wraps up its recruiting classes early and with five commits already for 2013.
Ainge has been a role model to me ever since I was a young boy. I watched him make the winning layup for BYU against Notre Dame in the NCAA Tournament in 1981, watched him play in the NBA for 14 years and coach the Phoenix Suns, and watched him win an...
There are a variety of factors — draft picks, salary cap relief, cash considerations — that often muddy up the waters. A simple player-for-player swap can have far greater ramifications. One deal that isn't all that complicated is the one that is...
Boston Celtics NBA basketball coach Doc Rivers, left, and Celtics Basketball Operations President Danny Ainge, right, face reporters at the teams practice facility during a news conference, in Waltham, Mass. , Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. View Photo »
I'll talk to Rondo, but I won't talk to you about what I said to him ... Rondo will be fine. Rondo knows that we love him. He knows that we like him, and he's excited to come back and play basketball.
Friday in Toronto with a triple-double Sunday against the Bulls. The Celtics have played 18 of their first 27 games at home, meaning 24 of the final 39 games will be away from TD Garden, and a series of extended road trips begins Thursday in Chicago, so...
Boston’s mercurial point guard played with a vengeance yesterday. Clearly annoyed that he didn’t make the All-Star team, ever the subject of trade rumors, largely blamed for Boston’s stink bomb in Toronto Friday night, Rondo took out his frustrations...
Daniel (Danny) Ray Ainge (born March 17, 1959 in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.) is a retired American professional basketball and baseball player who is currently the President of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. He has played in the NBA for the Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, and Phoenix Suns, and also in Major... Full Article
Boston Celtics NBA basketball coach Doc Rivers, left, and Celtics Basketball Operations President Danny Ainge, right, react while taking questions from reporters at the teams practice facility during a news conference, in Waltham, Mass. , Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
View Photo »Boston Celtics Basketball Operations President Danny Ainge, center, greets members of the media before the start of a news conference at the NBA basketball teams practice facility, in Waltham, Mass. , Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
View Photo »FILE - In this June 27, 2011, file photo, Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge, left, and Celtics forward JaJuan Johnson appear at a news conference in Boston. Johnson has had a busy week. Purdue formally dedicated a banner honoring him at halftime of the team's game against Miami on...
View Photo »Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo heads into a meeting with general manager Danny Ainge during NBA basketball training camp in Waltham, Mass. , Friday Dec. 9, 2011.
View Photo »Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge talks with reporters during a news conference at the team's NBA basketball training facility in Waltham, Mass. , Friday, May 13, 2011.
View Photo »Boston Celtics NBA basketball coach Doc Rivers, left, and Celtics Basketball Operations President Danny Ainge, right, react while taking questions from reporters at the teams practice facility during a news conference, in Waltham, Mass. , Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.
View Photo »Usually, I'm around [the players] when these [trade rumors] happen
Every year is a challenge and brings different challenges ... We have a list of players that we'd like to get. ... Right now, there's a lot of money out there, a lot of teams with (salary) cap space, so players are waiting for the big pay days. So we have to be patient in this process.
I'll talk to Rondo, but I won't talk to you about what I said to him ... Rondo will be fine. Rondo knows that we love him. He knows that we like him, and he's excited to come back and play basketball.
Hopefully we'll be close on Dec. 9 ... There may be some straggling players coming in. But hopefully when we start training camp, we'll at least have 10 [players].
Every year is a challenge, it brings different challenges
Ill talk to Rondo ... But I won't tell you what I’ll say to him. Rondo will be fine, Rondo knows that we love him. He knows that we like him. He’s excited to come back and play basketball. He'll be fine.
I field a lot of calls about players on our roster ... Trade rumors are part of the world we live in. It's a media circus out there. Everybody's been in trade rumors and everybody will. If you're worth your salt you'll be mentioned in a trade somewhere along the line.
Rondo knows that we love him
Trade rumors are part of the world we live in. Everybody's been in trade rumors and everybody will. If you're worth your salt you'll be mentioned in a trade somewhere down the line.
I don’t make any comments on trade rumors. I’m just not commenting on any of it. Everybody knows how valuable Rondo is to our team. I’ll talk to Rondo, but I don’t want to talk about it publicly.
