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DANNY AINGE
TURNER SPORTS
After retiring as Phoenix Suns head coach, Ainge signed with Turner Sports on January 10th for the 1999-2000 NBA season as an NBAgame and studio analyst.
He has served as an analyst on TNT during the 1995-96 NBA season.
CAREER
Ainge became the head coach of the Phoenix Suns in 1996, leading his team in his first full season to a 56-26 record, a 16-win improvement over the 1996-97 season.
Ainge became the fourth Phoenix coach to gain 100 wins in Suns history and fourth in all-time NBA history.
During his 14-year NBA playing career, he won two championships with Boston in 1984 and 1986; appeared in six NBA Finals: Boston, 1984-87; Portland, 1992; Phoenix, 1993; and six Conference Final appearances: Boston, 1982, 1984-88; Portland 1991-92; Phoenix, 1993.
He was one of three players in NBA history to make 1,000 or more career three-pointers, along with Dale Ellis and Reggie Miller.
PERSONAL
He played collegiate basketball from 1977-81 at Brigham Young University. He won the 1982 John Wooden and Eastman Awards as the nation's best college basketball player following his senior season when he averaged 24.4 points.
He and his wife, Michelle, live in Gilbert, Arizona with their six children, Ashlee, Austin, Tanner, Taylor, Cooper and Crew.
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