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• Michael Jordan Played Golf With Danny Ainge Day Before Scoring NBA Playoff Record 63 Points Against Celtics: ‘Tell Your Boy Dennis Johnson I Got Something For Him Tomorrow’
Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan played golf with Danny Ainge a day before scoring an NBA playoff record 63 points against the Boston Celtics. Jordan and Ainge talked a lot of smack to each other during their golf match. “Tell your boy Dennis Johnson I got something for him tomorrow,” Jordan told Ainge. On April […] The post Michael Jordan Played Golf With Danny Ai...2024
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• Jazz Seeking at Least Two First Round Picks for Walker Kessler
It is no secret that Utah Jazz GM, Danny Ainge, drives a hard bargain when discussing trades. Nothing epitomizes this sentiment more than his recent asking price for the young center, Walker Kessler. The Jazz are reportedly demanding at least two first round draft picks in exchange for the former North Carolina Tar Heel. It […] The post Jazz Seeking at Least Two First Round Picks for Walker ...2024
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• Knicks reportedly had talks with Jazz about Walker Kessler trade before Karl-Anthony Towns deal

Danny Ainge was asking a lot, two first-round picks, for the Jazz big man, so a deal never got done....2024
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• Jazz Felt There Weren't Big Moves Available This Summer

When last season ended, the Utah Jazz were prepared to go "big game hunting" this offseason per CEO Danny Ainge. Instead, Utah ended up using most of their cap space to renegotiate-and-extend Lauri Markkanen and to sign a handful of veteran role players. "You guys have seen how things evolve in an offseason," Jazz GM Justin Zanik said. "In this organization, we are extremely aggressive with pursui...2024
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers

Photo by Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty Images The 2024 NBA Draft lacked excitement from the very start of the cycle due to the absence of a consensus No. 1 overall player. The 2024 class wasn’t terrible, but it always felt more like a role player draft than one with future franchise cornerstones. The fact that this was the draft that immediately followed Victor Wembanyama’s class made it seem...2024
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• Ex-Bulls' Lauri Markkanen lands massive contract extension with the Jazz

Former Bulls forward Lauri Markkanen landed a massive five-year contract extension with the Jazz worth $238 million, the team announced. “Lauri’s ability to score in multiple ways and his versatility as a player makes our team better,” Jazz CEO of Basketball Danny Ainge said in a statement. “He embodies our team’s core values on and off the court. We’re glad......2024
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images Here are the NBA players who could be traded before the new season begins. Player movement typically comes in waves during the NBA offseason, and it feels like the first wave is officially over for the summer of 2024. The draft has come and gone with some big surprises (Zach Edey to the Grizzlies!), major trades have gone down (Mikal Bridges to the Knick...2024
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• Zach LaVine has officially become undervalued in NBA trade rumors

Image edit by Thilo Latrell Wider Zach LaVine is far better than his detractors — NBA teams included — are giving him credit for. Here’s why some team should be trying to buy-low on him. I have spent a lot of time on FaceBook Marketplace. From browsing free listings to bartering about five-dollar margins that make up less than 10% of the price of said item, I have done my time in the slop...2024
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round

Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust The 2024 NBA Draft is widely viewed as one of the weaker classes ever, but that doesn’t mean that some teams won’t find real contributors in the first round. Our network of draft experts tried to project who they’d be. The 2024 NBA Draft isn’t seen as the strongest class in the league’s history, but between Alex Sarr, Zacchari...2024
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• The Celtics’ rivals handed them a championship one bad trade at a time

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images The Celtics’ ripped off their rivals in trades all the way to a championship The West is a pecked-over, apron-strewn, parity-fest. The East has more superstar divas on first and second-round losers than it does 50-win teams. If 2023-24 turns indicative, it will be the Rest of the NBA vs. Boston for the next few years. Not only did the 2023-24 Bosto...2024
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• Joe Mazzulla is the perfect weirdo for Celtics’ NBA championship expectations

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images Joe Mazzulla is the ideal head coach for the Celtics in so many ways. What does it mean to get “out-coached”? This phrase is thrown around as an explainer for all manner of failures, from NBA head coaches declining to call crucial timeouts to allowing their team to choke away a game they had well in hand on a putrid final possession. It’s a tal...2024
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• NBA trade deadline instant grades for every 2024 deal made as they happen

Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images Let’s grade every 2024 NBA trade deadline deal. The NBA transaction periods have become almost as exciting as the games themselves, and that makes the 2024 NBA trade deadline something close to a holiday for a certain type of hoops fan. No matter where your team is in the standings right now, the trade deadline represents an opportunity for hope: teams ar...2024
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Dejounte Murray suspiciously held out, plus the latest on Bruce Brown, Andrew Wiggins

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images It’s officially eyes emoji season on the last day for NBA trade rumors until the offseason. With less than 24 hours to go until the NBA trade deadline, we saw a few minor deals go down around the league on Wednesday, with Monte Morris, Xavier Tillman and Simone Fontecchio among those changing teams. But as of publishing time, some of the biggest names st...2024
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• 31 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports We went around the league to find the likeliest candidates to be dealt ahead of next week’s NBA trade deadline. With the Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline less than a week away, there seemed like no better time than to hop around the SB Nation NBA network and ask our local writers which player(s) they think each of the teams they cover and/or root for is most likely to...2024
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• Jeff Green is fighting father time in his quest for an NBA championship
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Now on his ninth team, Jeff Green is trying again to achieve immortality. Time, a relentless flat circle, is a construct. But what does this actually mean? It’s a measure of unit, a way for us to order and make sense of what appears to be the linear succession of events, what we think of, and refer to, with our insufficient language, as “existence”, but eve...2023
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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• The Celtics’ rivals handed them a championship one bad trade at a time
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• Jaylen Brown Is Ready for the NBA's Space and Boston Celtics' Expectations
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• Think You Know What the NBA's Morris Twins Are All About? Think Again
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• KG, the Oral History, Part 2: Glory in Boston, Quirky Traits and Returning Home
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2024
"How keeping Lauri Markkanen is a bet on a plan the Jazz and Danny Ainge haven't revealed yet"

2023
"“Nobody understood superteams more than Pat Riley and Danny Ainge, and Ainge is up running the Celtics, (Pat) Riley’s down in Miami running […] The post Celtics Reportedly Formed Big Three Specifically to Beat LeBron appeared first on Basketball Forever."

2022
"While Danny Ainge may not be with the organization anymore, he’s still a C’s legend and played a massive part in shaping this roster into what it is right […] The post Danny Ainge explains key Brad Stevens trade that unlocked everything for Celtics appeared first on ClutchPoints."

2021
"The Celtics officially hired Udoka last June to replace Brad Stevens, who has been promoted as the team’s president of basketball operations after Danny Ainge stepped down from his post."

2020
"Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge made one of the great trades in NBA history in 2017, when he sent the Number 1 overall pick in the draft to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for the Number 3 pick and a protected future first-rounder."

2019
"President of basketball operations Danny Ainge said in a radio interview yesterday that Hayward remains ahead of schedule in his rehab and could return to practice by Saturday, relays Darren Hartwell of NBC Sports Boston."

2018
"According to Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald, general manager Danny Ainge is still chasing guards Lou Williams and Tyreke Evans."

2017
"Celtics president Danny Ainge said Thursday that Gordon Hayward is progressing well from his fractured left ankle suffered in Boston's season opener."

2016
"Despite his relative excitement over Horford's arrival and overall optimism about the current team, Crowder acknowledged that without Durant or someone of his caliber, Boston isn't a realistic contender: I just text [Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge], trying to see where everything is going."

2015
"Danny Ainge has more chips than a snack aisle."

2014
"Within a month or so of Boston's elimination from the 2013 playoffs, general manager Danny Ainge deconstructed the previous core, shipping Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn and allowing Doc Rivers to take the Clippers' head-coaching job."

• Jazz Seeking at Least Two First Round Picks for Walker Kessler
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers
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• Ex-Bulls' Lauri Markkanen lands massive contract extension with the Jazz
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• Zach LaVine has officially become undervalued in NBA trade rumors
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• Rivals Expect Jazz To Trade Lauri Markkanen With Warriors, Spurs Among Interested Teams

The Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs reportedly have interest in trading for Lauri Markkanen this offseason with the Utah Jazz exploring his trade market. The Oklahoma City Thunder have also been linked with Markkanen previously. "There's some other teams that are looking at Markkanen," said Brian Windhorst on the Hoop Collective Podcast on Monday morning. "I think San Antonio is one of...2024
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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• The Celtics’ rivals handed them a championship one bad trade at a time
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images On and off the court, Derrick White’s presence has lifted Boston to where they are today. When the Boston Celtics got eliminated by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2021 NBA playoffs, the screen faded to black, and the credits began to run. The Brad Stevens years had come to a disappointing close, yet simultaneously, the true Stevens era hadn’t even begun....2024
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• Joe Mazzulla is the perfect weirdo for Celtics’ NBA championship expectations
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• Michael Jordan Played Golf With Danny Ainge Day Before Scoring NBA Playoff Record 63 Points Against Celtics: ‘Tell Your Boy Dennis Johnson I Got Something For Him Tomorrow’
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• Rivals Expect Jazz To Trade Lauri Markkanen With Warriors, Spurs Among Interested Teams
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Joe Mazzulla is the perfect weirdo for Celtics’ NBA championship expectations
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• NBA trade deadline instant grades for every 2024 deal made as they happen
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• 31 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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• Jeff Green is fighting father time in his quest for an NBA championship
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• Jazz, Lakers Have Talked Deals That Would Send Rotation Players For Russell Westbrook

The Utah Jazz have been as active as any team ahead of Thursday's trade deadline. One team that Jazz continue to circle back to with trade talks is the Los Angeles Lakers. Utah and Los Angeles have discussed many iterations of trades, most of which involve the Jazz sending rotation players like Mike Conley and Malik Beasley to the Lakers for Russell Westbrook and the Lakers 2027 and 2029 first-rou...2023
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Joe Mazzulla is the perfect weirdo for Celtics’ NBA championship expectations
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• Jeff Green is fighting father time in his quest for an NBA championship
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• RUMOR: Danny Ainge has 2 other Donovan Mitchell trade offers he ‘likes’ amid Knicks’ chase
The New York Knicks have been widely considered as the frontrunners to land Donovan Mitchell from the Utah Jazz, but that might not be the case at all. New York has the young talents and draft assets to package in order to trade for Mitchell, though no deal has been reached as of the moment […] The post RUMOR: Danny Ainge has 2 other Donovan Mitchell trade offers he ‘likes’ amid ...2022
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• RUMOR: The Danny Ainge reason that the Jazz trading Donovan Mitchell is still possible
After the Utah Jazz traded Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the basketball world is patiently waiting for team CEO Danny Ainge and company to trade Donovan Mitchell. At the moment, the Jazz have indicated that they will not trade Mitchell. However, according to NBA insider Marc Stein, Ainge being in control suggests that such […] The post RUMOR: The Danny Ainge reason that the Jazz...2022
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• Ray Young Posts Throwback Photo of a young Trae with Brad Stevens, Danny Ainge
Ray Young, the father of Atlanta Hawks’ superstar point guard Trae Young, posted a picture from 2013 of a young Trae with Brad Stevens and Danny Ainge. The caption on the post told an interesting story that the elder Young never forgot. At the time, Stevens was the head coach of the Boston Celtics and […] The post Ray Young Posts Throwback Photo of a young Trae with Brad Stevens, Dann...2021
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• Trae Young’s dad reveals hilarious 2013 encounter with Celtics’ Brad Stevens, Danny Ainge
Trae Young’s dad, Ray Young, just dropped one of the best, most interesting and hilarious stories about his son’s journey to the NBA. Surprisingly, it involves former Boston Celtics GM Danny Ainge and head coach Brad Stevens. On Twitter, the Young patriarch shared a photo of a teenage Trae with Stevens and Ainge that he […] The post Trae Young’s dad reveals hilarious 2013 e...2021
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• Celtics GM Danny Ainge reacts to birth of Gordon Hayward’s son
Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge had an awesome reaction to the news of Gordon Hayward and his wife, Robyn, welcoming their fourth child on Wednesday. Ainge retweeted the news of the baby’s birth, and he joked that he’s already envisioning the junior Hayward in Celtics green. 2040 first rounder💪🏼☘️💚Congratulations🙏🏼 https://t.co/E7agu2eFKj — Danny Ainge (@danielrai...2020
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• Rajon Rondo to Mavericks: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Again King of the East, LeBron's Conference Reign Faces Few Looming Threats
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• Nate Robinson Traded for Jameer Nelson: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Jae Crowder Comments on Celtics' Recruitment of Kevin Durant
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• Zoran Dragic to Celtics: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Danny Ainge on Trading Rajon Rondo: ‘I Really Don’t Know’
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• Think You Know What the NBA's Morris Twins Are All About? Think Again
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• Ainge: Hayward close to shedding walking boot as rehab begins
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• Jimmy Butler Rumors: Celtics Reportedly Attempted to Trade for Bulls Star
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• Are LA Lakers or Boston Celtics the Better Free-Agent Fit for Rajon Rondo?
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• Michael Jordan Played Golf With Danny Ainge Day Before Scoring NBA Playoff Record 63 Points Against Celtics: ‘Tell Your Boy Dennis Johnson I Got Something For Him Tomorrow’
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• Jazz Felt There Weren't Big Moves Available This Summer
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• Rivals Expect Jazz To Trade Lauri Markkanen With Warriors, Spurs Among Interested Teams
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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• The Celtics’ rivals handed them a championship one bad trade at a time
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Joe Mazzulla is the perfect weirdo for Celtics’ NBA championship expectations
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• Jazz’s Ainge Going “Big Game Hunting” This Summer
The Jazz failed to make the playoffs for the second straight season. CEO of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge will look for difference makers this offseason to change their fortunes, according to Eric Walden of the Salt Lake Tribune. “We’re ready to go big game hunting,” he said. Ideally, the Jazz will trade for an All-Star […]...2024
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• Jazz's Danny Ainge: Team 'ready to go big game hunting' this offseason

The Jazz failed to make the playoffs for the second straight season, and CEO of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge will look for difference makers this offseason to change their fortunes....2024

• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Joe Mazzulla is the perfect weirdo for Celtics’ NBA championship expectations
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Dejounte Murray suspiciously held out, plus the latest on Bruce Brown, Andrew Wiggins
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• RUMOR: Danny Ainge’s shocking reaction to Clippers’ 2011 Chris Paul coup on Kobe Bryant, Lakers
Chris Paul’s 2011 move to the Los Angeles Clippers still remains to be one of the most contentious trades in NBA history. The Los Angeles Lakers supposedly already had a deal in place, only for then-NBA commissioner David Stern to veto the deal at the last minute. Danny Ainge, who at that time was the […] The post RUMOR: Danny Ainge’s shocking reaction to Clippers’ 2011 Chr...2022
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• Dwyane Wade reacts to Danny Ainge joining Jazz
Danny Ainge is joining the Utah Jazz front office just a few months after “retiring” from his role with the Boston Celtics. While it’s shocking for some, NBA legend Dwyane Wade couldn’t be more hyped up about it. Wade, who is a minority owner of the Jazz, took to Twitter to welcome Ainge and express […] The post Dwyane Wade reacts to Danny Ainge joining Jazz appeared ...2021
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• Paul Pierce takes savage shot at ex-Celtic while dishing on arguments with Danny Ainge
Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce sat down with Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix in an intriguing tell-all befitting of his nickname ‘The Truth’. The Celtics icon dished on a handful of topics, including the whole livestream video scandal that got him kicked off of ESPN as well as his past desire to join Dirk Nowitzki on […] The post Paul Pierce takes savage shot at ex-Cel...2021
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• Danny Ainge doesn't 'really see much out there' on trade market
Viewed as the Eastern Conference’s deepest and most talented team entering 2018-19, the Celtics have been somewhat inconsistent this season and currently sit fifth in the East at 22-15. The club’s intermittent struggles have led to some trade speculation, but Danny Ainge doesn’t sound like someone who expects to be making deals in the coming weeks. Although Ainge and the Celtics will do their due ...2019
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• Ainge: Celtics have no plans to play Hayward this season
Danny Ainge created a buzz on social media earlier this week when he shared a photo of Gordon Hayward without a brace on his ankle, but the Celtics general manager says fans still need to temper their expectations.In an appearance on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Toucher and Rich Show” Thursday morning, Ainge said any talk of Hayward returning this season is still very premature. Here’s the tweet Ainge s...2018
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• Brad Stevens provides Gordon Hayward update amid photo hype
Boston Celtics boss Danny Ainge created something of a firestorm earlier this week by tweeting out a photograph that featured Gordon Hayward not wearing a brace on his injured left ankle.Ainge took to Twitter to post the photo, in which he notes the absence of said brace. Ainge’s tweet immediately led to speculation that Hayward conceivably could be further along in his rehab after suffering a gru...2018
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• NBA Draft 2017: Celtics Select Jayson Tatum With No. 3 Overall Pick
BROOKLYN — Danny Ainge has made his move. The Boston Celtics ended much speculation Thursday by taking Duke forward Jayson... »...2017
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