41 Quotes by Danny Ainge

We don't care what number we're at. We may be at 18 when it's all said and done. Somebody's going to make the team and somebody's not. Obviously, you can only have 15 contracts Opening Day, so we'll see who's still standing and who wins the jobs.

Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.

Not right away. But we could be looking at the possibility of a 10-day contract guy.

I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.

In Wally we are receiving an All-Star player who is playoff-tested and who has been a winner at all levels.

I think 2 1/2 years of evaluating and watching practice every day and watching Ricky's performance on and off the court and in the locker room and everything else, we felt it was better to look in a different direction.

He's still coming. But we haven't gotten it finalized. They understandably have a lot of more important things on their minds.

Gerald is still a major, major priority for us on the developmental side. We plan on bringing him back this season.

I felt that the other way was not working, and I felt this was a logical direction for us to go. Even though it's not a finished product, and this isn't the trade where we're all of a sudden we're going to win the division, it is a good trade for both teams for where they were, which was underachieving.