Ainge not alone in feeling the bite
Good fiction lasts forever.
It has been 28 years since Tree Rollins bit Danny Ainge’s finger during an NBA scuffle, but Ainge freely admits a lot of people still think it was he who bit Rollins.
DANNY AINGE
But at least now the former BYU star has some company. According to the Boston Herald, Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron was bitten by Vancouver’s Alex Burrows, thus linking the two Boston athletes forever.
“I felt his pain,” said Ainge.
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Although Ainge wasn’t to blame for the long ago biting incident, fans loved to razz the expressive Ainge.
“There were fans that believed I was dirty and they’re going to think that. But I’m not concerned,” Ainge told me in a 1992 interview.
He added, “I’ve also had a lot of fans that were yelling at me during the games that came up afterward and said, `We appreciate the way you play.’ I guess that’s my job is to make the opposing fans frustrated and not like me.”
The elder Ainge apparently still doesn’t worry all that much about what opposing fans think. He just hired his son Austin to be the Celtics’ director of player personnel. pressherald.com
AUSTIN AINGE