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Toucher & Hardy

Danny Ainge Discusses Offseason, New-Look Celtics

Toucher & Hardy

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Celtics president of basketball ops. Danny Ainge joined Toucher & Rich on Tuesday to look ahead to the new season, which gets underway Tuesday night in Cleveland. Ainge talked about the wild offseason for the C's, from how the Kyrie Irving trade came to fruition to Isaiah Thomas' departure. He also touched on Marcus Smarts' impeding restricted free agency, and where the defense will come from this season.

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0:00.0

985 the sports hub we are toucher and rich we are in the town fair tire studios we are

0:05.2

simulcast on mbc sports boston danny aange is the president of basketball operations for the

0:17.1

boston celtics he's kind enough to join us and he will join us weekly on Thursdays. But now, since it's the opening tip-off of the NBA season, he's kind enough to join us. Mr. Danny Aange, hello, sir. Good morning, gentlemen. How are you today? As good as you, you are up and at him. I'll tell you that. You're excited about the season.

0:41.5

I'm very excited about the season, but what did you guys do all summer?

0:48.5

Talk about you. Basically. Just discussed your offseason. Both in our professional and personal lives. Light this hard on you guys. I know. We just sit here and just comment on other people's decisions.

0:57.6

You gave us a lot of content, I guess.

0:59.6

By the way, Wic Grossbeck took credit for the Kyrie Irving trade yesterday.

1:02.5

Is that true?

1:05.8

Sure.

1:06.5

Wick is involved in all the big deals that we do.

1:09.3

Absolutely.

1:10.2

It doesn't not very convincing.

1:11.9

He straight up took credit for the trade yesterday, whereas everyone was praising them, you know,

1:17.2

this is trader. Danny, Danny is, you know, the miracle maker.

1:21.6

What part's truth? What part is not?

1:26.9

So we do all the work, but it comes down to, it gets down to the decision time, and there

1:33.9

are often decisions that are very challenging, and WIC is involved in those big decisions.

1:42.1

Dude, that would piss me off if someone came on it.

1:45.0

Because he said he went to, like, Italy with Dan Gilbert,

1:47.5

and they all, like, you know, broke bread together.

1:49.8

And there's Danny just sitting there.

1:51.3

Just, listen, all this love I've been getting for the past three months,

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