Danny Ainge

If you didn’t like the Cleveland Cavaliers’ return in the Kyrie Irving trade last summer, you’re bound to hate it now that they trail the Boston Celtics 2-0 in the Eastern Conference Finals. No, Irving isn’t playing. He’s out for the year recovering from a knee injury. But the Cavaliers’ performance against an ostensibly shorthanded [...]

So, um, this is a little depressing. Worrisome, too. Kyrie Irving left the Boston Celtics’ Sunday loss to the Indiana Pacers with soreness in his left knee and is expected to miss some time as he rests up for the playoffs. That’s fine in a nutshell. The Celtics won’t catch the Toronto Raptors for first [...]

Gordon Hayward had one of the more grotesque leg injuries that we have seen in the NBA for a while on opening night when the Celtics took on the Cavaliers in Cleveland. While most would safely assume that Hayward was done until next fall, there have been rumors that have popped up at times over [...]

After the major blockbuster trade went down between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics this summer, in which the Celtics dealt their fan favorite and All-NBA point guard Isaiah Thomas before having to sign him to a huge contract next summer, there was understandably a rift between Thomas, Danny Ainge and the Celtics front office. [...]

Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge is officially good at Twitter. Kyrie Irving dropped 47 points and six assists on a ridiculous 16-of-22 shooting in an overtime win against the Dallas Mavericks Monday night. The game itself was, on some levels, a little unsettling. The Mavericks are the worst team in the NBA. The Celtics have [...]

Growing up being the smallest guy on the court your whole life, playing with an extra chip on your shoulder to prove all of your doubters wrong and to dominate your enemies (on a basketball court) becomes ingrained into your DNA. Isaiah Thomas has been doubted, overlooked and underappreciated seemingly his whole NBA career after [...]

Jaylen Brown and rookie Jayson Tatum are incredibly important to the Boston Celtics’ future. But, by virtue of losing Avery Bradley and Jae Crowder, they’re also pivotal to the present. Yes, the Celtics signed Gordon Hayward, and Bradley’s departure came with Marcus Morris as compensation. Still, both Bradley (off-ball scorer, crafty defender) and Crowder (gutsy [...]

Boston Celtics General Manager Danny Ainge stated after taking Jayson Tatum with the No. 3 pick of the 2017 NBA Draft that he would have taken Tatum at No. 1 had he had decided to stay there and not trade back to No. 3 with the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for three 1st round draft [...]

The hip injury that ended Isaiah Thomas’ season during the Eastern Conference Finals won’t prevent him from starting 2017-18—or rather, at the very least, he won’t be going under the knife. Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge announced on Wednesday that surgery has been ruled out for the All-Star point guard, telling The Boston Globe‘s Adam Himmelsbach (h/t CBS Sports): [...]

Would the Boston Celtics have signed Al Horford last summer and then Gordon Hayward this year if Brad Stevens wasn’t their head coach? Probably not. And this answer isn’t purposely incendiary. It basically has Danny Ainge’s stamp of approval. From ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: Armed with little more than a MacBook, Stevens has led a series [...]