Danny Ainge
FameRank: 6

"As player:"

* 2× List of NBA champions/NBA champion

* List of NBA All-Stars/NBA All-Star ()

* Consensus first-team NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/All-American (1981 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/1981)

* John R. Wooden Award (1980–81 NCAA Division I men's basketball season/1981)

* NABC Player of the Year (1981)

* Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year/WAC Player of the Year (1981)

* 4× First-team All-Western Athletic Conference/WAC (1978–1981)

* No. 22 BYU Cougars men's basketball#Retired numbers/retired by BYU

"As executive:"

* List of NBA champions/NBA champion ()

* NBA Executive of the Year Award/NBA Executive of the Year ()

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/ stat2value = 4,199 (4.0 apg)

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/ stat3value = 1,133 (1.1 spg)

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"Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge" (born March 17, 1959) is an American basketball executive and retired professional basketball and baseball player, currently serving as President of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics.

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I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.

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.

We're going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that's an internal matter we'll never discuss.

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.

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.

They're all competing. That's what I love about this situation that's a little bit different than what we've had. There's no politics. The best players are going to play.

I think we have guys who can do the job.

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.

He'll be with us when training camp opens.