Celtics assistant GM Austin Ainge leaving Boston for Jazz: Report

Celtics assistant GM Austin Ainge leaving Boston for Jazz: Report originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

Austin Ainge is reuniting with his father.

The Utah Jazz are hiring Ainge, the Boston Celtics’ assistant general manager, as their new president of basketball operations, ESPN’s Shams Charania and Tim Bontemps reported Monday.

Ainge is the son of former Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge, who left Boston in June 2021 and took over as the Jazz’s CEO of basketball operations and alternate governor later that year.

Austin Ainge first joined the Celtics organization in 2009, serving as head coach of the G League Affiliate Maine Red Claws from. He joined the front office in 2011, taking over as director of player personnel.

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