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From: sdo@faron.UUCP (Sean David O'Neil)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Danny Ainge
Message-ID: <399@faron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 11:35:18 EST
Article-I.D.: faron.399
Posted: Tue Nov 26 11:35:18 1985
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Reply-To: sdo@faron.UUCP (Sean David O'Neil)
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Organization: The MITRE Coporation, Bedford, MA
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Summary: Offensive Bites

In article <20100015@uiucuxa> jm630@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
>Whatever you feel Danny's basketball attributes are....
>
>Let us not forget that he is the League's MVW -- MOST VALUABLE WHINER!!!
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>Oh yeah, remember when good 
>                           'ol Danny Boy led the league
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>                           in most OFFENSIVE BITES IN A SEASON.
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Yes indeed, Danny Ainge is a true MODEL player which ALL youngsters should
>look up to with the highest respect.
>
>
>                                      GO 76'ers                    
>
>       "I hate the cigars, the color green, and the Celtics!"
>
>                                      Joe "Philadelphia" Matthews


While I agree that in spite of all his efforts, Ainge is a mediocre
basketball player at best (for the NBA) I think your posting is
rather unfair.  Let's not forget that Ainge never bit anyone, rather
it was Tree Rollins who bit Ainge's finger down to the bone.

Whatever his failings as a basketball player, I see no reason to
excoriate Ainge.  Especially when one considers some of the
rather colorful characters inhabiting the league (anyone remember
what Quentin Dailey of the Bulls did in college?).  So what if
Ainge is as bland as boiled flounder?  At least he's off drugs
and out of jail which, if you believe the incredible tripe that
emerges from the pens of most sportswriters, makes him almost
fit for canonization.

                                       Sean O'Neil