Danny Ainge to the Jazz

[Inigo Montoya]

The guy built a a team that won the championship but apparently he's not good enough for the Jazz. Oh well.

[AingesBurner]

They guy built a a team that won the championship but apparently he's not good enough for the Jazz. Oh well.

Can you have co-GM’s, I like the fact Danny is aggressive and doesn’t sit on his hands.

[KqWIN]

I don't know if I can be a fan of the Jazz anymore. This FO literally does not give away free stuff when they sign a FA. What a bunch of scumbags!

[ForeverRDjazz]

I don't know if I can be a fan of the Jazz anymore. This FO literally does not give away free stuff when they sign a FA. What a bunch of scumbags!

Celtics have to move players to make Gordon contract work and I'm not sure it come down to Jazz wanting to much and Danny went another way? Sure they had talks about some deal when GH left. Part of me thinks GH would've love playing with Mitchell and today's Jazz? I didn't want Hayward for the price Boston offered him. Hell I was ready to cut ties after Hornet gave him the offer sheet and Jazz matched. Just don't feel GH is a crunch players.

[MTJazzv3]

No thanks on Ainge in any role beyond scout. But then again, dude had grit - witness the famous Rollins v. Ainge classic Bite Fight (1983). Can you imagine such a scuffle in today's NBA? Larry Bird literally diving into the scrum. NBA is different today. Not worse, just different.

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=RetroBasketballHighlights

[AingesBurner]

No thanks on Ainge in any role beyond scout. But then again, dude had grit - witness the famous Rollins v. Ainge classic Bite Fight (1983). Can you imagine such a scuffle in today's NBA? Larry Bird literally diving into the scrum. NBA is different today. Not worse, just different.

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=RetroBasketballHighlights

Danny with the MMA take down

[MTJazzv3]

No thanks on Ainge in any role beyond scout. But then again, dude had grit - witness the famous Rollins v. Ainge classic Bite Fight (1983). Can you imagine such a scuffle in today's NBA? Larry Bird literally diving into the scrum. NBA is different today. Not worse, just different.

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=RetroBasketballHighlights

Danny with the MMA take down

First move I learned and perfected in judo as a 10 year old at the SLC YMCA class as a skinny dude up against bigger guys. Get them on the ground fast then have a purpose down there as they are doing the "WTF am I doing on the ground" moment. Never been a real fight since but its a good move to have in the back pocket!

[AingesBurner]

No thanks on Ainge in any role beyond scout. But then again, dude had grit - witness the famous Rollins v. Ainge classic Bite Fight (1983). Can you imagine such a scuffle in today's NBA? Larry Bird literally diving into the scrum. NBA is different today. Not worse, just different.

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=RetroBasketballHighlights

Danny with the MMA take down

First move I learned and perfected in judo as a 10 year old at the SLC YMCA class as a skinny dude up against bigger guys. Get them on the ground fast then have a purpose down there as they are doing the "WTF am I doing on the ground" moment. Never been a real fight since but its a good move to have in the back pocket!

For sure!

[ForeverRDjazz]

No thanks on Ainge in any role beyond scout. But then again, dude had grit - witness the famous Rollins v. Ainge classic Bite Fight (1983). Can you imagine such a scuffle in today's NBA? Larry Bird literally diving into the scrum. NBA is different today. Not worse, just different.

Watch on YouTube

;ab_channel=RetroBasketballHighlights

Danny with the MMA take down

First move I learned and perfected in judo as a 10 year old at the SLC YMCA class as a skinny dude up against bigger guys. Get them on the ground fast then have a purpose down there as they are doing the "WTF am I doing on the ground" moment. Never been a real fight since but its a good move to have in the back pocket!

keD Don't like the move. Guy's going to catch a quick knee to the face. Cheap shot by Tree tho.

[BudTugly]

Dude retired a failure.

No

[babyjax13]

I'd probably switch to rooting for the Grizzlies if we hired him.

[vryadli]

They guy built a a team that won the championship but apparently he's not good enough for the Jazz. Oh well.

Is Jazz a big market team? Oh well.

[Crunch 99]

I think I would take Danny Ainge over Lindsey/Zanik. Ainge is an aggressive wheeler dealer with championship pedigrees that he earned both as a player and a GM; he rarely gets accused of getting the worst of a deal; he has a pretty decent record on draft picks, and he has useful NBA head coaching experience as well.

[goober]

I'd probably switch to rooting for the Grizzlies if we hired him.

In a scouting role I think he’s fine.

[pickIBL]

If we could get Ainge in whatever capacity, I'd love to have him. GMs make ridiculous trade demands and lopsided trade offers all the time, I bet they do that every single day. We probably never hear about 99% of those offers because they go nowhere. I guess people are resenting Ainge because he managed to get a few of those lopsided trades done? Who wouldn't want to get those done? Only difference is he actually did. So basically people are angry at Ainge because he was too good at his job, and we're supposed to not want this guy in our front office? Who here wouldn't be ecstatic if the Jazz managed to fleece another team like Ainge did? Maybe we should be angry at DLZ if they manage to fleece another team because they did too good of a job? "Damn that Lindsey guy, the trade he did was so good for the Jazz that no one will want to trade with him again, we should fire him immediately!" Even I'm not that much of a complainer.

There is a difference between being good at your job and being a prick. Ainge wouldn't even do a sign and trade so we could get a trade exception.

Again...why do people think this is a problem?

The issue with Ainge is that GMs think he negotiates in bad faith and asks for way too much in trades.

The fact that he didn't give the Jazz charity for free is a non-issue and no GM should give out charity to other teams because they feel bad. If you sign a free agent, you are not obligated to give charity to the other team. That's not how it works.

A consultant type role where he has more time with the family probably does make sense. And yea its not his fault on how the jazz lost hayward for nothing when they could have been more proactive earlier.

He is a dick sure. But in my book it'd be fine if the FO grew a pair.

[pickIBL]

Dude retired a failure.

No

And a champion tbf

[bkohler]

Dude retired a failure.

No

I'd take this type of failure in my life.

Won a championship, rebuilt without becoming horrible, built a solid core in Boston for them to move forward with. It's amazing how quickly people have turned on him.