Toucher and Rich: Danny Ainge discusses Kyrie, Marcus Smart, Tatum and the Milwaukee Bucks (hour 4)
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On this hour: Celtics President of Operations Danny Ainge discusses the reason Kyrie Irving had season ending knee surgery. He updates us on Marcus Smart. Danny isn't worried about rookie Jayson Tatum against the Bucks and more! T&R discuss tonight Bruins playoff game. The Stack and Zolak joins in for the crossover
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| 0:00.0 | The clock hits triple zeros and the Celtics will put 55 wins in the books in 2018. |
| 0:07.0 | And as their game comes to an end, who they will meet in the first round of the playoffs, |
| 0:11.6 | we still have no earthly idea. |
| 0:13.5 | The final score, Boston 110, Brooklyn 97. |
| 0:17.3 | But now you know, it is the Milwaukee Bucks. |
| 0:19.4 | Danny Ains, is the president of basketball operations for the Boston Celtics. |
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| 0:31.0 | GE, the exclusive data and analytics partner in the Boston Celtics. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, Mr. Danny Aange. |
| 0:37.9 | Good morning, Fred. |
| 0:54.9 | Good morning, Rich, and John. How are we doing today? Good. I got a little bit of a beef with you. Last time we had you on on Thursday was our weekly-friendly 9 o'clock call, and then, you know, we're talking and you're just kind of doing Celtic stuff. and then an hour later, it's announced that Kyrie Irving's going to be out for the playoffs. |
| 0:56.8 | Why couldn't you have broken that new talking and you're just kind of doing Celtic stuff. And then an hour later, it's announced that |
| 0:54.9 | Kyrie Irving's going to be out for the playoffs. Why couldn't you have broken that news on our show, |
| 0:59.0 | Danny? We could have got a nice little pop out of that. You know what? It wasn't really my news |
| 1:04.0 | to break. I had a feeling that that's the way we were headed, but I wasn't certain, and we were still waiting to find out |
| 1:13.0 | everything. I mean, I could have told you that it looked like it was going to go that way, |
| 1:17.4 | but I didn't know at the very, at the time we were talking that for sure it was that way, |
| 1:22.3 | and I'm always uncomfortable breaking medical stuff because I've just been in this game for 40 years and |
| 1:29.4 | too many times that it changes from day to day hour to hour of what's going to happen with a |
| 1:36.7 | player and that's certainly been the case with us this year but I remember when KG got hurt |
| 1:43.1 | and I mean I was told by medical staff, |
| 1:47.4 | like he'll be back next week, and he'll be back, you know, or a few more weeks, |
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