Pat Riley Says Danny Ainge Needs to "Shut the F*ck Up"

[BatManu20]

After Celtics general manager Danny Ainge called (http://nesn.com/2013/03/danny-ainge-calls-lebron-james-complaining-about-foul-calls-embarrassing-after-heat-win-streak-snapped/) LeBron James (http://www.cbssports.com/nba/players/playerpage/400553/lebron-james)' complaints of hard fouls "embarrassing," both LeBron and Heat president Pat Riley fired back.

LeBron's response when asked by reporters Friday was simply, "I'm not surprised to hear anything from Boston."

Riley's response was a bit... stronger. In a statement released through the Heat's PR via the Sun-Sentinel (https://twitter.com/JoeGoodmanJr/status/317762836308824064), Riley said of Ainge, "He needs to STFU and manage his own team. He was the biggest whiner going when he was playing. I know that because I coached against him."


http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/21970431/pat-riley-on-danny-ainge-he-needs-to-shut-the-f-up (http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/21970431/pat-riley-on-danny-ainge-he-needs-to-shut-the-f-up)

:lol


I hope these two teams meet up in the playoffs :stirpot:

[AussieFanKurt]

leflops comments were embarrassing though

[Thread]

Ainge still ain't answered for Pierce swearing up & down he'd not make him come back West in June of '10.

tee, hee.

[Ace]

Hes right, Ainge was a bitch and obviously much hasn't changed.

[AussieFanKurt]

every player is a bitch really.. not a news flash

[Killakobe81]

Will never side with Ainge over Riles ...but as my nigga awax the OG said in Menace ... "yall both acting like bitches"

[lefty]

Eh

The Lakers-Celtics rivalry is still alive :lol

I wonder what Riley would have said iif it was Cedric Maxwell who called Lebron out

[baseline bum]

LOL Ainge only having a job because McHale gave him his franchise guy.

[JoeTait75]

Eh

The Lakers-Celtics rivalry is still alive :lol

I wonder what Riley would have said iif it was Cedric Maxwell who called Lebron out

Maybe he'd bring up Cornbread going into the stands after a fan in the Spectrum during the '81 ECF.

Ainge really has no right to talk. He was hands-down the biggest crybaby in the league during his playing days.

[Pop]

Listening the Celtics announcers talking about this right now lol, even tho their homerism is mostly annoying, in this case it was hilarious tbh.

[Clipper Nation]

Celtics devastated over wasting Rajon Rondo's 44-point outing, falling 0-2 to HeatThu, May 31, 2012 4:59 AM EDT

MIAMI – The general manager of the Boston Celtics was trying to understand how LeBron James could get to the free-throw line those 24 times, and so Danny Ainge stood in the hallway recreating a clear-path foul call for the NBA's vice president of referee operations, Joe Borgia. Ainge slid his feet, and tried to show how the Celtics defender had reached around to the Miami Heat star, how they were far too close to the rim for that call.


"How?" Ainge asked him.


They did some kind of a dance here late Wednesday night, Borgia and Ainge, the NBA official delivering his explanation, and Ainge, the ultimate contrarian, challenging the premises. And hey, how could Paul Pierce foul out again? How could the Heat get to the free-throw line 47 times? These were the things on Ainge's mind, and there would be no satisfaction coming out of here for these Celtics, no solace out of an epic effort and a historic performance out of Rajon Rondo. Ainge was persistent, polite and Borgia finally relented that he'd watch the film of the Heat's 115-111 Game 2 overtime victory (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2012053014).

[Thebesteva]

I remember watching some documentary about the NBA's worst floppers and whiners of all time and all the refs and Stern unanimously agreed that Danny Ainge is historically the biggest whiney faggot of all time. So I completely understand where Al Pacino aka Riley is coming from. Aside from that, Lebron has always taken it up the ass when he loses. It's amazing to me that no matter how dominantly embarrassed Kobe was in 2008, he shook everyone's hands even though they prematurely celebrated in Boston and shook Doc Rivers hands and showed up to the press conference and said I'm proud of our guys.

Lebron on the other hand has always ran home like a bitch when he loses.

[SanAntonioSpurs23]

:lol

[scanry]

Pat Riley showing who the boss is. I still remember Ainge's whinny face in PHX.

[mindcrime]

I remember watching some documentary about the NBA's worst floppers and whiners of all time and all the refs and Stern unanimously agreed that Danny Ainge is historically the biggest whiney faggot of all time. So I completely understand where Al Pacino aka Riley is coming from. Aside from that, Lebron has always taken it up the ass when he loses. It's amazing to me that no matter how dominantly embarrassed Kobe was in 2008, he shook everyone's hands even though they prematurely celebrated in Boston and shook Doc Rivers hands and showed up to the press conference and said I'm proud of our guys.



Lebron on the other hand has always ran home like a bitch when he loses.


Can't disagree with this. Spot on, tbh.

[baseline bum]

Pat Riley showing who the boss is. I still remember Ainge's whinny face in PHX.

Ainge is a faggot. I remember him throwing the ball off Mario Elie's forehead when they blew a playoff game in Phoenix :cry

[Thread]

Ainge is a faggot. I remember him throwing the ball off Mario Elie's forehead when they blew a playoff game in Phoenix :cry

...Horry moved to retailiate and Elie warned him off. Years later Horry ended up here on coach Ainge's bench, tossed a towel right into his kisser and they ran him off...into Los Angeles for Ceballos. Well, the rest is history:::CWEBB turned his back on him in '02 and Horry murdered him on-the-spot.

[baseline bum]

...Horry moved to retailiate and Elie warned him off. Years later Horry ended up here on coach Ainge's bench, tossed a towel right into his kisser and they ran him off...into Los Angeles for Ceballos. Well, the rest is history:::CWEBB turned his back on him in '02 and Horry murdered him on-the-spot.

http://i.imgur.com/EJoeC8g.jpg

[baseline bum]

...Horry moved to retailiate and Elie warned him off. Years later Horry ended up here on coach Ainge's bench, tossed a towel right into his kisser and they ran him off...into Los Angeles for Ceballos. Well, the rest is history:::CWEBB turned his back on him in '02 and Horry murdered him on-the-spot.

Though you forgot when he sent that faggot Nash into the scorers' table to just pour salt in the wound.

[Thread]

Though you forgot when he sent that faggot Nash into the scorers' table to just pour salt in the wound.

Or, when Wallace turned his back on him and he too ended up...dead in the ground.

[Thread]

Though you forgot when he sent that faggot Nash into the scorers' table to just pour salt in the wound.

Thank, Christ. That was gettin' too close for comfort.

[Thread]

& they want to blame him for Paxson's 3, but, that's just because he's white and Barkley is black. That was Barkley all the way.

[Thread]

At 1:20 Barkley comes up to play hero:::the dominoes commence to topple:::

GnAr4I3-Z48

[lefty]

Man Barkley screwed up big time :lol

If he didnt go for the steal, he may have retired with a ring

[DMC]

Ainge still ain't answered for Pierce swearing up & down he'd not make him come back West in June of '10.

tee, hee.
I've never seen anyone hold on to nostalgia like you and mention it at every opportunity. It's the sign of a man who's given up on progress.

[baseline bum]

I've never seen anyone hold on to nostalgia like you and mention it at every opportunity. It's the sign of a man who's given up on progress.

He doesn't do progress. It's against his religion.

[Chris]

Riley got trolled sons, you can tell he's extra butthurt over something that happened decades ago :lol

[Latarian Milton]

son of a bitch better accept riley's castigation in a meek manner tbh. riley is the last surviving founding father of the modern basketball and he's the man everyone must revere. if there're only two men in the league who you should never mess with, one is stern and the other is riley

[Chris]

Riley looks like Satan tbh

[Thread]

I've never seen anyone hold on to nostalgia like you and mention it at every opportunity. It's the sign of a man who's given up on progress.

Let us proceed...

[Thread]

Man Barkley screwed up big time :lol

If he didnt go for the steal, he may have retired with a ring

& I'd be sittin' here with my dick in my hand at 1 & 44.

[Venti Quattro]

Ainge is a faggot.

Nothing's really changed since the 80's. Ainge is still a massive faggot. Call it like it is, Riles...

[lefty]

Nothing's really changed since the 80's. Ainge is still a massive faggot. Call it like it is, Riles...
And RIles is a hypocrite faggot :lol
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Pat Riley's shut-the-bleep-up message to Danny Ainge a show of support for LeBron James1 hour 25 minutes ago



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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DoI1c7LBza1PqAx7Z6QfXA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201303292014728415163-p2.jpegPat Riley called Celtics general manager Danny Ainge a "whiner." (AP)
Miami Heat emperor Pat Riley isn't responsible for creating the NBA's culture of hard fouls and cheap shots, but no one in its history has profited so handsomely in the pursuit of perfecting it.
In honoring two historically indisputable professional habits – establishing himself as the patriarch and protector of his star player; and wrapping himself in downright disdain for the Boston Celtics – Riley sent a missive to one of his messengers on Good Friday.
"Danny Ainge needs to shut the [expletive] up and manage his own team," Riley proclaimed. "He was the biggest whiner going when he was playing and I know that because I coached against him."
This had been a spectacularly jarring response to Ainge, who had chastised LeBron James and his declaration that the NBA and its officials don't do enough to protect him (http://yhoo.it/101ATfv). "I think that it's almost embarrassing that LeBron James would complain about officiating," Ainge had told WEEI radio in Boston.
For Ainge, this had been his vintage self: agitating, inciting, inspiring an irrational over-the-top response. If Riley's response feels unprecedented, remember something: The re-recruitment of James to re-sign in 2014 is underway, and this was Riley's way to back his franchise star. Even so, Riley's never needed a noble reason to grandstand. When it serves his agenda, no one steps down off Olympus and delivers the arrows like him.
[Related: LeBron calls for justice after win streak ends (http://yhoo.it/101ATfv)]
In a season when James had manufactured no storylines beyond the perpetual testimonials about the greatness of his game, his venting in Chicago on Wednesday night promises to be the beginning of the framing of how he'll be officiated in these playoffs.
This is a copycat league, and this episode will turn out to be one more way in which Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau has become the most mimicked of all.
http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Dul16XTfqQlpMsHEbP3OJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201209281425519308023-p2.jpegAinge criticized LeBron James for complaining about opponents' hard fouls. (AP)When Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson wanted to install a defense, he made young assistant Darren Erman – a Thibodeau disciple in Boston – his defensive coordinator. The improvement's been dramatic. And when teams want to defend James, they'll study Thibodeau's blueprint.
Of course, everyone doesn't have the Bulls' personnel to be physical with James, nor the ferocious defensive mindset within their players. Still, Thibodeau is stubborn and he'll never let his players back down to James and the Heat. So stubborn, in fact, Thibodeau still hasn't signed the four-year, $17.5 million-plus contract extension that Bulls commemorated with an Oct. 1 news conference.
"The deal's done," Thibodeau told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday night. Nevertheless, he wouldn't acknowledge that it had been signed because that still hasn't happened, several sources with direct knowledge of the contract told Y! Sports.
This is how Thibodeau operates, part of his maddening genius. He wears everyone down until he gets everything he wants – front offices, players, and often opponents too.
[Also: Kobe injury adds to Lakers woes as they hobble toward finish line (http://yhoo.it/105NI8N)]
Back in his assistant coaching days in Boston, his contracts lingered unsigned, too. Looking back, no one is sure that Thibodeau ever signed the waiver confirming that he'd never sell his personal engraved 2008 championship ring, when those were handed out to staff.
In the end, remember something: Thibodeau is a disciple of Jeff Van Gundy, who is a disciple of Riley. Deep down, Riley understands something: the way with which those Bulls engaged James to end that 27-game winning streak had been the ultimate tribute to Riley himself. Thibodeau sent those Bulls hard for James, and it stirred something within the NBA's MVP that no one had heard out of him this season.
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/c9yShlDCWwkeEbDJx6Rm9g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTI1MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/6f660b3780e2630a2d0f6a7067005262.jpgJames wasn't happy with the officiating in the Heat's loss to the Bulls. (AP)James is a product of a different day in the NBA, a different generation and the evolution of the sport spared him the beatings delivered in the 1980s and '90s. Nevertheless, how James is officiated is an issue for the NBA for this season and beyond. That's been true forever with the league's best players, and always will be.
More and more, the league office has made life easier for offensive stars – legislating easier paths to scoring, punishing hard fouls with free throws, fines and suspensions. Once, David Stern changed the rules to make it harder for the Chuck Dalys and Rileys to beat up on Michael Jordan.
Now, it will be Adam Silver's turn with James. Make no mistake: James and his inner circle have a strong relationship with Silver, who'll replace Stern as the NBA's commissioner in 2014. Silver is so fond of James' business manager Maverick Carter, he granted an interview with Forbes to render some fluffy quotes for a profile on Carter.
Stu Jackson has long overseen basketball operations for the NBA, but he's begun the pursuit of returning to the front office of a team, sources told Yahoo! Sports. The restructuring of the league office could ultimately be dramatic, and those within the NBA are watching closely to understand how it'll eventually trickle down to the product on the floor.
[Also: Allen Iverson returns to Philadelphia for bobblehead night (http://yhoo.it/107qOxJ)]
In the end, Riles' statement was one for the history books, one of the best two-sentence releases pro sports has ever seen. Riley needs enemies, and the Celtics and Ainge will forever play the part for him. At the highest levels, the Celtics and Heat share a visceral hatred and that's increasingly rare in this buddy-buddy era.
After a Game 2 loss to Miami in the Eastern Conference finals in May, Ainge cornered the NBA's vice president of referee operations, Joe Borgia, in an American Airlines Arena corridor and tried to understand how James could go to the free throw line 24 times, the Heat 47.
Just trying to break free, Borgia finally blurted to Ainge, "I'm sure we missed five or six calls somewhere."
Boston believes Dwyane Wade went out of his way to hurt Rajon Rondo with a tackle that dislocated his elbow in the 2011 Eastern Conference playoffs. And, of course, there was the Heat's successful free-agent recruitment of Ray Allen last summer.
So, yes, James spoke out about all those non-basketball plays that have endangered him this season, borne out of a night when Thibodeau had his players honoring the lessons that Riley had taught Thibs' own mentor, Van Gundy, so long ago.
[Also: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lobbies for the vacant UCLA coaching job (http://yhoo.it/103J0bE)]
And upon stepping out of the shadows on Good Friday, as much as Pat Riley was taking shots at the Celtics GM and defending his own superstar player, he had done something else too: Riley took a bow.
They're all coming for James, coming harder and harder. Remember that it was the emperor of these Miami Heat who taught them all how to do it, who glamorized the hard foul and the cheap shot and the culture that comes for LeBron James now.

[Venti Quattro]

And RIles is a hypocrite faggot :lol

Shut the fuck up. Riles is Mr. Showtime

[lefty]

Shut the fuck up. Riles is Mr. Showtime
No Magic is Mr Showtime

Westhead got fired because Magic wanted to play uptempo basketball

If Riley didnt oblige, Buss would have fired him too

[Bill_Brasky]

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[scanry]

Riley will go down as the greatest Laker Coach (even better than Phil) IMO. Moreover the old timers (Players & Fans) still have Riley's back.

Riley is also well respected throughout the NBA.