Danny Ainge TELLS a Larry Bird STORY 

Bird understood the strategy of the game. Loved watching basketball when he played.

Larry Bird was a STAR player and I loved watching him! He was the ultimate PRO BALL PLAYER!

Danny Ainge is one of the best athletes ever! Baseball, basketball, and a great football player in high school

Danny Ainge-North Eugene High School...First team All American 1977 in football, basketball and baseball. And National College Player of the year 1981 at BYU. NBA champion in 84 and 86 with the Celts. Wow

Larry made good players into all stars and all stars into Hall of Famers.

I remember when Ainge played baseball for the Blue Jays. His last game in Toronto a fan tossed a basketball towards him in the field at the old Exhibition Stadium

Ainge, one of my favorite pro players. Happy to hear his reflections.

Imagine if Bird never hurt his back or his shooting hand finger. The fight with Dr J was a preseason game 😂😂

Larry made Ainge a better player. Larry made everyone on his team a better player.. Larry made everyone on the opposing team a better player..

Ainge was one of greatest all around athletes of his time THE ONLY 3 Sport HS All American ever. Fierce competitor and also played MLB baseball

Bird should be considered as the GOAT What other player in NBA history could’ve took a team of predominately white players to 3 championships and damn close to a 4th

Hard core B ball fan for years. I was fortunate enough to grow up in MA during the Bird era. Today's league lost this hard core fan, & I assume many more fans as well, years ago.

Very RARE footage at 1:40 of Greg Kite being useful on offense.

Great stories!! Always liked Ainge as a player for Boston!!!!

Never like Ainge when he was playing. But he was a phenomenal athlete. In case some you youngsters don't know, Ainge played in MLB for the Toronto Bluejays.

Anybody ever notice that McHale looks like this 60s-70s actor Michael Sarrazin?

That give and go with Bird and Kite was a rare play

If there was someone Bird didn't like in the post, he would keep throwing the ball to McHale to run up the score on them.

Ainge was also an infielder for the Toronto Bluejays before playing pro basketball!

Danny Ainge, the greatest all around athlete ever.

OMG.... Larry was the best....

Never be another!!

LEGEND!

You were another excellent 3-point shooter. You are a Hall of Fame player.

“Man you need to retire” damn 😂

Love Danny Ainge.....

The picture is distorted.

there is a video that theorizes that Danny Ainge is the greatest multi sport athlete of all time. (I put him behind Bo and Deion) BUT Before you shirk this idea, go watch it. He played 4 sports at a top tier level. Danny Ainge Multi Sport Athelete

Greg Kite, getting a pass and not dunking and almost missing.

Being a 20 to 24 Year Old living in Wyoming at the Time. My POV about Mr Danny Ainge as a Pro Basketball Player was never Very Good or Nice, or Endearing, because He'd played at BYU in College. But too Hear Him Talk about Larry Bird as a Teammate, Friend or just as How Great He was? I Can tell that He really Means it. All prior Opinions now put Aside ☺️😊 & Since We have all Aged, or put the Past in it's proper Perspective, & Place. Mr Ainge was a Mighty Fine Athlete, in His Day. So I'm Going to Say He has Since gained My utmost Respect & Admiration over the Year's. Thanks for Sharing. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.

Look at the American White guys in these clips: Bird, Ainge, McHale, Sichting, Kite. Legit NBA players who defended and scored. And somehow the U.S. just stopped producing tall, athletic White guys? Somehow Europe didn't. Where are today's big, talented American White players?

I remember despising Danny when he got to Boston. I mean worse than Larry because Larry was enough of a problem.

You mean like Vlade Divac?!

Yeah but could he Bowl?

“Whole another “?

Bird is the goat. His skin color is the reason he is not considered as such.

Heard all these stories before from other players. Nothing new here.

Johnny Newman was 180 pounds soaking wet. But a great Knick!!!

I acknowledge Larry Legend. Basketball Royalty………but when you look at those Bird hair styles from 2024, some of them look pretty bad today.

Dannie Ainge nickname was CRY BABY.

Bird is on the all time starting 5 NBA team. Singe on the other hand is a tool.

All major newspapers in the country during bird's career were extremely liberal did not back bird, except the Boston globe! Extremely underrated!