This came after a court battle to get Ainge away from the Toronto Blue Jays. It pissed off other NBA teams who wanted to draft Ainge but thought he was committed to baseball. Boston got him with the 8th pick in the 2nd round even though he was the Wooden award winner. https://twitter.com/bball_ref/status/1336712228133892102
Here's a great passage from a story at the time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1981/12/20/danny-ainge/5ccb9844-6a32-43dd-9c4a-795e95fd5d38/
Ainge talked to me about watching the NBA draft as a Blue Jay: “I was playing against the White Sox in Chicago that day of the draft & I snuck over to this hotel where they were televising the draft & I was just in the back. Nobody even knew I was there."

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