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Toucher & Hardy

Ainge: Celtics Looked 'Discouraged', Need To Show More 'Compete'

Toucher & Hardy

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Celtics president of basketball ops Danny Ainge talked about the Celtics' busy week. He said the Celtics looked "discouraged" in Game 1 against LeBron James and the Cavaliers and need to show more "compete" moving forward. He also spoke about the Celtics' potential plans with the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft.

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0:00.0

Danny Ains, first of all, congratulations.

0:03.3

Good morning, gentlemen.

0:05.0

You seemed actually legitimately happy during your press conference when you found out you had the number one overall pick.

0:11.3

Yeah, no, it was fun.

0:13.5

We honestly would have been happy with any of the four picks, but getting number one is fun.

0:20.9

Do you believe there is a transcendent talent?

0:23.5

There is a franchise player in this draft?

0:26.0

You know, I hope there is.

0:27.6

It's so hard to predict that in most cases, Fred,

0:31.9

because I think that we have, when you're drafting kids,

0:37.4

some of these kids are still 18 years old.

0:39.5

Most of them are 1920.

0:42.0

It's really hard to tell in most cases.

0:44.9

I think that the only one that I could tell 100% sure when he was that age was LeBron.

0:50.4

Right.

0:51.4

And, but yeah, I do think there will be. What did you do when you found out?

0:57.1

Like, the reason I'm asking is because when Fred says you seemed happy, there's a video of you,

1:02.0

and I forget what her name is. She's a reporter for CSN, and she was interviewing you, and you

1:06.8

kind of grabbed her shoulders and shook her, like, woo-hoo! Like, you were very, very happy.

1:13.4

Well, so what I did was I was talking to the media for the next hour and a half,

1:18.8

but immediately when I was in my office, like all of my staff, like, went crazy.

1:23.8

I couldn't believe it.

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