![]() ![]() ![]() There also was the time when Ainge, then a budding baseball prospect, was called to the Toronto Blue Jays from the club's Triple-A affiliate in Syracuse, N.Y. `And Danny Ainge, the Mean Mormon,' or `Danny Ainge, the Mormon Assassin.' " ![]() It means not always being understood.Īinge remembers how the late Johnny Most, longtime voice of the Boston Celtics, used to introduce the team at various functions: "He would say something like `Larry Bird, one of the greatest players the game has ever seen Robert Parish, the Chief from Centenary College Kevin McHale, born in Hibbing, Minnesota, birthplace of Bob Dylan.' Throughout his career in the NBA, which is going on 13 years, Danny Ainge has become accustomed to a different set of rules.Īinge, a 34-year-old Suns guard, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - a Mormon.That means being judged differently from other players, fairly or not. ![]()
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