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"No one else who can guard me? This is getting ridiculous" - Danny Ainge recalls Larry Bird roasting the Knicks and their coach in MSG
No one else who can guard me? This is getting ridiculous,'" Ainge said of Bird. "Then Hubie would put in Johnny Newman, he'd ...
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"Players make lousy general managers" - Mark Cuban strongly warns against letting superstar players have all the say in the organization
"Players make lousy general managers, so you have to be really, really careful," Cuban said. "Certain players, as they reach ...
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"He didn't usually trash talk to Magic, Dr. J, guys like that" - Danny Ainge on why Larry Bird directed most vicious trash talk to coaches
"He just really wanted to motivate himself," Ainge said of Larry's trash-talking. "But the most characteristic one was he ...
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Larry Bird admits Danny Ainge showed him the value of 3-point shot: "You could shoot 35, 36 percent and do better if you shot 50 percent from the 2s"
Even the league's best shooters, including Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird ... his teammate Danny Ainge. Bird recalled Ainge being one of the first players to stress the importance of developing ...
"Every game we played, I was trying to find a way just to hit that dude" - Byron Scott admitted his hate for Danny Ainge
So, by the time Scott entered the league in 1983, Ainge had developed a reputation for being a gritty, hard-nosed defender. Though he came off the bench, Scott faced him a bunch of times, so much so ...
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"It's disappointing that so many relationships I had with people fell apart" - Bird on why he won't ever consider a front office role with the Celtics
"It's disappointing that so many relationships I had with people fell apart," he said. "But I would feel a lot worse about it if I thought I had done something wrong. I'm not wrong. I'm sorry M.L.
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"He's not a Hall of Famer, but he was on that next level" - Bob Ryan on a role player who was never recognized as the Celtics' X-factor in the 80s
Wedman joined the C's midway through the 1982-83 campaign. Though he was a quality two-way player and former two-time ...
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"I didn't like him from the moment I got there" - Robert Horry opens up about longstanding hatred for Danny Ainge
Danny Ainge became the coach ... Related: "I knew my days with the Celtics were over” - Larry Bird admits his love for Boston ended when the team traded his favorite teammate With all that ...
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Chuck Daly knew better than to mock struggling Larry Bird in 1988 ECF: "You never know when it will come back"
"Bird has just misplaced his touch but you never know when it will come back," Daly said via New York Times. "You saw that in ...
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"There's a large amount of guys that's been successful when their playing days are over" - Larry Bird credited Red Auerbach for making Celtics stars successful as front-office ...
In contrast, Celtics icons like Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Danny Ainge seamlessly transitioned into different roles - a phenomenon that "Larry Legend" credits to the influence on Red Auerbach.