Celtics President and former BYU great Danny Ainge has mild heart attack
Danny Ainge, Boston Celtics president of basketball operations, gestures as he passes the team's NBA vhampionship banners st the team's training facility in Waltham, Mass., Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The Celtics had won the NBA draft lottery, capitalizing on a trade they made with the Brooklyn Nets four years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Boston • Boston Celtics President Danny Ainge has had a mild heart attack and is expected to make a full recovery.
The team said in a statement Thursday the 60-year-old executive received immediate medical attention in Milwaukee, where the Celtics were facing the Bucks in the second round of the playoffs. Ainge is returning to Boston.
He also had a mild heart attack in 2009.
Ainge was a baseball and basketball star at BYU who played parts of three seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays before settling into a 14-year career in the NBA. He won two championships with the Celtics in the Larry Bird era.
Ainge coached the Phoenix Suns for three-plus seasons and took over the Celtics basketball operations in 2003.
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