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Danny Ainge

Danny Ainge

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Take Slip·May 28, 2024
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Danny AingeDanny Ainge

Michael Jordan is the best player I ever played against

Well, Michael Jordan. Yeah, I would say that's fair answer... Michael is so fun to play with, right. I mean, he's a great competitor as we all know.

Subjective opinion from an NBA veteran.
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Take Slip·May 28, 2024
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The 1986 Celtics are the greatest team of all time, better than the 1996 Bulls

No, no, no. Not up there. It's above [the 1996 Bulls]... Best team of all time. In my unbiased team... we were 50 and 1 [at home]. That's insane... we just assumed [playing the Lakers in the Finals] was gonna happen. We weren't gonna lose either way.

Subjective comparison of historically great teams.
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Take Slip·May 28, 2024
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Danny AingeDanny Ainge

If a player is a great athlete and has a good brain, shooting is the skill they can always learn

I mean, if a guy is a great athlete and a good player has a good brain but can't shoot, I think that's a good bet... they can learn that. Like Scotty Pippen, Magic Johnson... they weren't great shooters... they still would've been great players. Kawhi Leonard was another guy that wasn't a great shooter in college and turned out to be one of the best.

This is a scouting philosophy, though supported by historical examples like Kawhi Leonard and Jason Kidd.
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Take Slip·May 28, 2024
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Jimmy Butler is my biggest draft regret

I would say Jimmy Butler is the first one that comes to mind. It was, you know, he was a late first round pick and he was seriously in our thoughts of drafting and we went another direction and Jimmy turned out to be a great player. And that's probably the one I regret the most.

Ainge is speaking to his own internal feelings and history.