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"Players make lousy general managers" - Mark Cuban strongly warns against letting superstar players have all the say in the organization
But according to former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban, not every legend is cut out for boardroom politics — and ...
"No one else who can guard me? This is getting ridiculous" - Danny Ainge recalls Larry Bird roasting the Knicks and their coach in MSG
Bird wasn't a loudmouth trying to compensate. He spoke with quiet confidence, throwing out lines that cut deep but didn't beg ...
"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 ...
If this is indeed the end of this era of Celtics basketball, it was all worth it
Banner 18, captured last June and raised in October, is the confirmation and the reminder: Flags do fly forever.
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Hooping it up without some familiar faces
Somewhere, Red Auerbach is scheming to get the first-round pick in the NBA Draft away from the Dallas Mavericks, a surprise in the crackerjack box for the team that dealt Luka Doncic.
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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
He's not a Hall of Famer, but he was on that next level. He's a nice player… and should be remembered." Bob wasn't the only ...
Berry Tramel: 'Either your dream continues or your dream ends' in NBA Game 7s
OKC's SGA and Lu Dort are veterans of a 2020 Game 7 in the Orlando bubble, a last-second loss to Houston. No other Thunders ...
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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 ...
"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
When Larry joined the Celtics front office in 1992 as a special assistant to then-CEO Dave Gavitt, there was quiet optimism that his presence would lend both credibility and insight to a team in ...
"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 ...