Basketball
Ainge has mild heart attack
BOSTON — Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge was hospitalized Thursday after suffering what the team described as a minor heart attack.
The team issued a brief statement saying that Ainge, 50, was taken to a Boston hospital but provided few other details.
"Danny Ainge is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital after having a minor heart attack. He is recovering nicely," the team said. "Mr. Ainge is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days."
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A member of two Celtics championship teams in the 1980s with the original Big Three of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, Ainge was an NBA All-Star in 1988.
As general manager, Ainge helped the franchise raise its record 17th NBA championship last season by assembling a new Big Three, acquiring Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to join Celtics veteran Paul Pierce.
Ainge was named 2007-08 NBA executive of the year and in October was rewarded with a contract extension and the title of president of basketball operations.
