Jazz hire Celtics Assistant GM Austin Ainge as new President of Basketball Operations

[SoberasHotRod]

There is basically no way to tell if he is good at his job or not. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Ainge had already retired though. I don't think he wants to be a GM forever. It wouldn't surprise me for him to have some type of succession plan in place. Or maybe Austin just wants to live in Utah and his Dad is doing him a solid.

 

[Eminence]

Bro, the team was a family operation during the Miller era as well.

At least this family operation is one of basketball lifers.

Yeah, and I was happy we'd moved away from that.

 

[Elizah Huge]

View: https://x.com/keithsmithnba/status/1929539828997058584?s=46

 

[Elizah Huge]

Austin Ainge once hilariously snuck down to the Oklahoma State student section so he could get a closer look of Marcus Smart when he was scouting for the Celtics.

 

[Eminence]

View: https://x.com/keithsmithnba/status/1929539828997058584?s=46

The best 2nd rounder the Celtics have drafted in the last decade is Semi Ojeleye...

 

[KqWIN]

There is basically no way to tell if he is good at his job or not. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Ainge had already retired though. I don't think he wants to be a GM forever. It wouldn't surprise me for him to have some type of succession plan in place. Or maybe Austin just wants to live in Utah and his Dad is doing him a solid.

The first part is true, but only working for your dad isn’t a great look. It doesn’t make him a bad nepo baby by default, but I’d trust a new name I haven’t heard of over someone’s son.

 

[Elizah Huge]

The best 2nd rounder the Celtics have drafted in the last decade is Semi Ojeleye...

Check their late firsts

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The first part is true, but only working for your dad isn’t a great look. It doesn’t make him a bad nepo baby by default, but I’d trust a new name I haven’t heard of over someone’s son.

But he hasnt only worked for his dad....

 

[Eminence]

Check their late firsts

Oh man, Payton Pritchard and Williams x2.

 

[KqWIN]

But he hasnt only worked for his dad....

Sorry, he’s only had jobs that’s his dad has helped him get. Makes a huge difference.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I just have a hard time taking the "nepo baby" thing seriously when it comes to Austin Ainge.

This isnt an Atlanta Hawks Ressler situation where someone who has absolutely no basketball experience is making decisions because of their dad.

Ainge put the work in as a rotation player for a good college team, coached at the college level, and has been a part of a successful NBA franchise for over a decade.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

Rewarding Ainge by hiring his son after Ainge's pretty catastrophic last few years is... something.