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I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Pierce
Plans
Trade
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Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Championship
Goal
Winning
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It's refreshing to just see someone that you can have honest communication with.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Communication
Refreshing
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Bench scoring overall I think is overrated. The question is, do you have enough scoring?
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Bench
Overall
Question
Scoring
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Don't give them 3-point shots if that's what they're trying to do and embarrass you in any way.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Embarrass
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I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Multiple
Picks
Draft
Ninth
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Listen, we've drafted guys that wouldn't come in for workouts before. It's not the end of the world.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
End Of The World
Drafted
World End End Of The World
Workouts
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We like the opportunity to get off to a fast start, no matter what our schedule says, and that's our objective.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Objective
Schedule
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My guess is everybody loved Draymond Green. How do you not like a guy like that? A pretty well rounded player in college.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Rounded
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We're constantly working to try to improve our team, but we're not going to do any deals just to do deals. We're going to do things that are better for us.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Deals
Team
Constantly
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I had a chance to play against the USA teams when I was a player. I wasn't on any USA team but scrimmaging against them and playing against them was a highlight.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Chance
Team
Usa
Highlight
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You have to find a partner when you're making a deal. You cant just say 'I need to make this deal and do whatever it possibly takes to make it.' That's not how it works.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Cant
Partner
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When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Dollars
Sportsmanship
Winning
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I think it's always important to get off to a good start early, and especially with a younger team that hasn't been together that long, you want to get out of the gates hot and strong.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Gates
Good Together Long
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It's a different era. I understand what Charles Barkley was saying but you just can't take guys out. There's too much scrutiny. There's too many replays and reviews, and cameras everywhere.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Cameras
Scrutiny
Charles
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I'm not worried about Gordon Hayward. I'm not worried about his future or how good a player he is. He's doing everything he can. If he doesn't become the player that he wants to be, then it won't be from a lack of trying.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Worried
Gordon
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I remember I had a psychologist that I worked with in Phoenix tell me one time that the loss of a job and the loss of one's wealth is more devastating to most than losing a loved one or getting divorced. And that really hit me.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Divorced
Losing
One Time
Phoenix
Psychologist
Wealth
Time Me Remember
Devastating
Loved One
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The role of my job is I'm always trying to figure out where I need to be. Do I need to be at a college game, at an international game, with the team, at practice, with my coaches, with a few of the players, up in Portland, Maine? I mean, where do I need to be?
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Coaches
Maine
Portland
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You just have to adapt to what is needed at that moment, whereas as coaches are going crazy, because they're used to having and following a schedule. Everything's laid out in front of them on when they're going to practice and when they're going to take a plane to this city.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Coaches
Going Crazy
Adapt
Laid
Plane
Schedule
Whereas
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I mean drafting is a hard process because you're picking between 23-year-olds sometimes and 19-year-olds that have great upside, and some guys that are just great character but have limited physical skills, and some guys that have amazing upside and that are a little more immature, and everywhere in between.
Danny Ainge / Basketball Player
Drafting
Picking
Upside
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