Danny Ainge says Celtics won't 'tank' next season!

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/07/01/danny-ainge-says-celtics-won-tank-next-season-and-that-right-decision/c4845EXC8paWShTcvWxVPP/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

“Tanking, I think, is ridiculous,” he said. “This is the Boston Celtics and we have a tradition and we have a culture that we’re trying to create. A culture of winning and a culture of work and developing these young men as winners and as pros, and so it’s too early to know what type of team we’re going to have. That’s a conversation that I can’t even have with anybody realistically until Oct. 1 when we have a summer to figure out where we are.

“I would never tank.”

The art of tanking requires a great deal of bad luck and misfortune. It sends a discouraging message to your fan base. It’s playing games with the Basketball Gods and the Celtics have finished with snake eyes in their previous two attempts. So hopefully Ainge has learned his lesson, and will use this season to give younger players opportunities, establish a workmanlike culture, play an entertaining brand of basketball, and when the draft comes, choose wisely.

Will it be Wiggins or Parker? Likely neither, but there are many teams bucking for those precious top picks with a fraction of the talent of the Celtics. So the quest to sink into oblivion is a fruitless one.

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[syfy9]

Old news and what do you expect him to say. Yes we are going to tank next season and go after wiggins. Stern and the nba will fine the hell of out the celtics and Ainge. Nothing to see here.

The article was published July 2nd, which is today.


I think that Danny is saying that we are more rebuilding rather than tanking. We are going to give our prospects playing time and give Rondo resting time, but I think that Danny still wants everybody giving it their all.

 The winning culture statement that Danny said made me smile. That's really the difference between organizations like the Celtics and organizations like the Bobcats. It is vital that we sustain it for the future.

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we're going to tank.