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Boston blowout: Celtics deliver sweet victory for ex-BYU prodigy Ainge

Love him or hate him ; you have to admit, Ainge is a winner. He definately knows how to pull a rabbit out of his hat. Boston is rapidly becoming the sports capital of the world. It must be the Celtic pride and the Patriot spirit. Way to go Boston, and congrats to Ainge.

Thank goodness Paul Pierce finally put Danny Ainge under fire 12 months ago by saying that he better start doing his job or else he would demand a trade. Ainge had no other choice but to actually start trying to build a team. After he was given pressure, he got on the phone, pleaded and begged Seattle for Ray Allen, and then did a little kiss up with Kevin Mchale and pulled KG out of Minnesota. So things like this can happen. I just wish D-Will would threaten Kevin O'connor and Larry Miller and see them under pressure make some deals.

1. Danny Ainge has friends in the media?
2. How silly and pathetic the mighty West must feel. See what happens when a TEAM actually plays defense. Congratulations Boston. I hope this team stays together for a long time and motivates others to learn how to play defense.
3. The best stat of game 6. Sam Cassell DNP Coach's (sic) Decision (Don't ask me why Yahoo wants to say Coach Is Decision) Anyway, maybe Mr. Cassell was too stoned to play. (Message to Danny Ainge; trade Cassell to Golden State for 13 fish dinners at fishermans' wharf. Hurry before the price of Cheetos goes up again in Boston, as it does every year during the off-season)

Way to put Ainge in the headline. Always good to hear about any BYU alumni and their successes.

What a great victory!! Way to go Ainge and the Celtics!!

Awesome. Don't forget the Red Sox. It's a good time to be a sports fan in New England.

If you think the Lakers were the best team in the West this year, you didn't watch many games. Yes, they put a run together in the playoffs, with a lot of help from the league (can you say "Kobe-19 FT attempts per game?" Good, I knew you could!). Notice that in the Finals, the refs stopped giving Kobe 19-20 FT attempts per game and the Lakers lost 4-1. The Celtics had the best record in the league, but that was based mainly on playing pathetic teams from the East four times each. The Spurs, Jazz, and a healthy Rockets team were all solid teams with good defenses that would have performed much better against the Celtics than the Lakers without Kobe's special treatment. Kudos to Ainge for putting that team together, and kudos to the Celtics for convincing the league to level the playing field in the fouls department. But don't spout off about how this proves the West was overrated or the East underrated. The Celtics were the only team in the East that would have made the playoffs if they were all in the West.

Cut Ainge a break here! Danny is a winner and has proven it in every facet of his life. Yeah, he agrees that he is sometimes over-competitive, but all the sports greats have that zeal and drive that seems to offend some while garnishing overwhelming success at the same time. Ainge continues to surround himself with winners and my guess he will fiercely compete in whatever venue he is participating. It's simply his instinctive nature! He can't help it!

Of course he has Utah friends -- all of those BYU fans who remember his playing years. Ute fans would obviously still despise him since he beat Utah like a drum his last three seasons at BYU:)

Congrats to Boston for a well played series. Total opposite shame on you to LA for showing the world how to collapse and being the embarrassment of the NBA.

YES! DANNY AINGE IS A WINNER!

I ONLY WISH MR. MILLER WOULD HAVE NOT GIVEN IN TO THE MOST OVER-HYPED PLAYER IN THE HISTORY OF THE NBA (CARL MALONE) AND MADE DANNY A PART OF THE BACKCOURT WITH JOHN STOCKTON AND THE JAZZ PROBABLY WOULD HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP BANNER!!!

LARRY MILLER WOULD BE WISE TO DO ALL HE CAN TO MAKE AINGE A PART OF HIS TEAM TO BUILD A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM AS AN EXECUTIVE--- HE DID IN BOSTON !!! AS A PLAYER AND A MANAGER!!

Chill with the all caps! It's giving me a headache...

It's not surprising the Ainge was instrumental in returning the Celtics to their rightful place as NBA champions.

Danny has always been a winner.

If Coach Sloan could get all of the Jazz players to play with the tenacity of a Danny Ainge, the Jazz would be celebrating a championship next year.

The pieces are there, this edition of the Jazz just needs to learn how to compete to win every game, like Ainge did.

In the days before the 3-pointer, Ainge had ONE game in his college career, early in his Freshman year, in which he didn't score in double figures.

"Coach's Decision" is correct. The "'s" in this case is a possessive, meaning decision of the coach, not (as you seem to think) a contraction. Unfortunately, too many people on these boards do not seem to understand the difference between possessives, plurals, and (in this case) contractions.

Hey Eye Dee Ten Tee,

That apostrophe in "coach's" isn't a contraction or short for "coach is" it is used to show ownership. As in the coach made the decision.

I officiated Danny in high school basketball when he was in Eugene OR. He was something to watch then, as he was in baseball. I caught a few of those also. Then, at the Y, he was the best college hoops plater in the nation. Grasp that FACT. If he wasn't so good, ther Celtics would not have spent a bundle to buy his contract from Toronto, and then keep him. That team of Celts, with Bird and Walton, were the best passing team around. There were stars, but they were a team. You do not see that much anymore, just a bunch of inner-city thugs and whiners (Lakers). The Europeans are getting more in numbers, they play TEAM ball. Love 'ya, Danial Ray.

The NBA finals are like the Energizer Bunny...the just keep going, and going, and going...

But congrats to Danny-boy!

Kobie just could not share the lime-light with Shaq. And his dream of becomming the lakers only "Superstar" has come true. Congrats to Kobie, you got what you deserved!!

I hate Boston. Always have. Always will.

I hated Danny Ainge When he played for Boston. He always looked like he was about to cry.

Did I mention I hate Boston?

And so it goes. I will my eat Crow with dignity.

Please pass the salt.

Whoa. Hold on. If I wanted an english lesson...Yikes! Give it a rest.

Congrats to the Celtics. The Jazz were one of the few teams to beat them on their home court. But then got whooped by New York...go figure. I think the Jazz matched up better with the Celts and could have given them a run for the title but they couldn't get by LA. LA deserved to be there, they won fair and square. Kobe wasn't the only player that scored and rebounded in that series. Gasol and Odom took it to the hole every opportunity they had. Too many conspiracy theories running through these comments. Need more facts and debate. The Jazz are young and will be good into the future with a few additions in the off-season. O'Connor has sprung some good deals and will again.