Danny Ainge Quotations

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.

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

I'm always talking about Ryan and how we haven't been able to give him time. Well, this is our chance to get a good look at him.

He'll be with us when training camp opens.

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

Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.

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.

I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.

I think the blame is on everybody. But if you can't improve defensively, if you can't improve in limiting turnovers, then you need a change in personnel.