Austin Ainge... coach of the Maine Red Claws and son of Danny Ainge... will coach the C's summer league team in Orlando. But not because Danny wanted him to..
“He’s the coach because Doc (Rivers) chose him to be the coach,” Danny Ainge said last night after the first of the group’s three practices.
“Not me.” He added with a smile, “I don’t know if it was in the whole transition when Doc didn’t know if he was going to be back here and didn’t know if he’d have any staff. And he knew Austin would be around for sure.
“It’ll be a good experience for Austin. I think he told Austin maybe 10 days or two weeks ago that he’d like him to coach in the summer league.”
Doc never coaches summer league anyway... but I'm sure he'll be around. This one is in his back yard in Orlando.