DANNY AINGE RUMORS & GOSSIP
Doc to Meet With Celtics Wednesday and Speak on the Situation
Doc Rivers will be in Boston on Wednesday and plans to sit down with Danny Ainge, league source says.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 18, 2013
Adrian Wojnarowski reported earlier that Doc will be in Boston on Wednesday and will sit down with Danny to discuss his future and, I imagine, the future of the Celtics. And Steve Bulpett is reporting in the Herald that Doc plans...
Doc and Danny to meet tomorrow in Boston
Adrian Wojnarowksi has the latest on the Doc Rivers drama:
Doc Rivers will be in Boston on Wednesday and plans to sit down with Danny Ainge, league source says.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 18, 2013
Woj stated a few minutes later that Doc and Ainge “aren’t at odds”…
As much as Rivers wanted Clippers job, Boston management wanted to use deal to speed up rebuilding...
Rivers, Ainge To Meet On Wednesday
Doc Rivers and Danny Ainge will meet on Wednesday to discuss the best way to move forward following the end of trade talks between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Clippers.
Rivers was nearly allowed to coach the Clippers in a deal that would have involved Kevin Garnett.
Rivers is reportedly uneasy about returning to the Celtics amid a likely rebuild.
The Celtics were hoping to...
Report: Danny Ainge calls Doc Rivers, tells him deal is off and he wants him back with Celtics
From Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski.
Danny Ainge has called Doc Rivers to tell him that talks are done, sources tell Y! Sports. Ainge told him he still wants him as coach.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 18, 2013
Welp, this is awkward.
Ainge may want Doc back, but at this point I would rank the possibilities as following:
1. Doc works in TV next year
2. Celtics...
Ainge Confirms that Deal with Clippers is Dead
Danny Ainge confirms to the @BostonGlobe that the proposed Clippers-Celtics deal is, in fact, dead.
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) June 18, 2013
Baxter Holmes, the Globe Celtics beat writer posted this tweet to indicate that Danny has confirmed the reports from the Left Coast that the negotiations have broken off. Danny doesn't want to budge from his request for 2 first...
Grading Each Draft of the Danny Ainge Era: 2005
It's been a while since I posted my analysis of the Boston Celtics' 2003 and 2004 NBA Drafts. However, as promised, I will continue to breakdown each draft that Danny Ainge has been responsible for (2003-2012) since joining the Celtics' front office. Next on the list is the 2005 draft so let's get to it. Draft: 2004 Picks: (1)18, (2)50, (2)53 (1)18. Gerald...
Doc Rivers-Kevin Garnett Proposed Trade Could Bring Danny Ainge Pieces for Future Celtics Championship
I couldn’t believe it. The Celtics, who had the second-worst record in the league after the 2006-07 season, were once again in position to either pick No. 1 or 2 in the draft. It’s like the basketball gods finally realized the error of their ways, when the C’s were in position to pick first in the 1997 draft and select Tim Duncan, only to settle for the No. 3 pick in the form...
Report: Danny Ainge, Celtics No Longer Insisting Clippers Include Eric Bledsoe in Deal for Doc Rivers
At this point it seems like a matter of when, not if, Doc Rivers departs Boston.
Despite talks between the Clippers and Celtics hitting an impasse over the weekend, it appears that talks to send Rivers and Kevin Garnett to Los Angeles in a multi-layered package deal are not totally dead after all. Now that it is clear the Clippers will not include point guard Eric Bledsoe in the...
Speculating on Danny Ainge’s asking price for Doc Rivers
The LA Times Broderick Turner asked some anonymous NBA executives to speculate on what Danny Ainge might ask in return from the Clippers should he let Doc Rivers out of his contract:
Two executives said the first thing Ainge would want is young players such as Clippers centerDeAndre Jordan and Eric Bledsoe, and an expiring contract such as Caron Butler’s $8-million deal.
Then...
Your Morning Dump… Where ownership thinks having Ainge is a competitive advantage
Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump.
Q: Are you at all worried this team is going to fall deep into a rebuilding phase?
GROUSBECK: Wow, that sounds appealing (laughs).
PAGLIUCA: We’ve rebuilt before, and we have a lot of good players on this roster...
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