Danny Ainge
Danny Ainge
Daniel Ray "Danny" Aingeis an American basketball executive and retired professional basketball and baseball player. Ainge is currently the general manager and President of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 March 1959
CityEugene, OR
paul plans trade
I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.
difficult good happen help league rarely trade trades
I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.
both direction felt finished good logical sudden teams though trade win
I felt that the other way was not working, and I felt this was a logical direction for us to go. Even though it's not a finished product, and this isn't the trade where we're all of a sudden we're going to win the division, it is a good trade for both teams for where they were, which was underachieving.
contract looking
Not right away. But we could be looking at the possibility of a 10-day contract guy.
bother career felt frame good great nba paul players season talk tells together wants week
Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.
chance good ryan talking
I'm always talking about Ryan and how we haven't been able to give him time. Well, this is our chance to get a good look at him.
nba next night phoenix puts resting road run team teams utah waiting
With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.
court felt locker performance practice room watching
I think 2 1/2 years of evaluating and watching practice every day and watching Ricky's performance on and off the court and in the locker room and everything else, we felt it was better to look in a different direction.
player receiving winner
In Wally we are receiving an All-Star player who is playoff-tested and who has been a winner at all levels.
gotten
He's still coming. But we haven't gotten it finalized. They understandably have a lot of more important things on their minds.
bringing major plan priority
Gerald is still a major, major priority for us on the developmental side. We plan on bringing him back this season.
care contracts number opening standing team wins
We don't care what number we're at. We may be at 18 when it's all said and done. Somebody's going to make the team and somebody's not. Obviously, you can only have 15 contracts Opening Day, so we'll see who's still standing and who wins the jobs.
blame change improve limiting
I think the blame is on everybody. But if you can't improve defensively, if you can't improve in limiting turnovers, then you need a change in personnel.
guys
I think we have guys who can do the job.