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DENVER -- Denver and Boston, the busiest NBA teams this off-season, got
        together Thursday and completed a deal that sends Celtics forward Eric
        Williams to the Nuggets for a pair of future second-round picks.

        Speculation is that the Celtics traded Williams to clear salary cap
        space to sign another free agent, and the Nuggets were happy to
        oblige. Williams is scheduled to earn $949,600 next season, the
        last year of his three-year contract.

        "We're extremely pleased to obtain such an outstanding young
        player," said Allan Bristow, the Nuggets' vice president for
        basketball operations. "Eric is very athletic and gives us an
        offensive lift as well as an aggressive defender."

   The 6-foot-8 Williams was one of the top players on the disappointing Celtics
  last season, averaging 15 points and 4.6 rebounds in 72 games. He scored at
least 20 points 17 times, including a career-high 31 points against
Philadelphia inMarch. 

   Boston's first-round choice in 1995 out of Providence, Williams averaged 10.7
  points as a rookie and was named to start in the NBA Rookie Game, where he
   scored 15 points. 

  In exchange for Williams, the Celtics received a 1999 second-round pick, which
        Denver obtained from Orlando in a draft-day trade that sent center Jason
        Lawson to the Magic for guard Eric Washington. Boston also gets Denver's
        2001 second-round pick.

What's up here? I though Williams was lighting it up this summer, and he
makes less than a mil per. Who are we after that is worth giving up
Williams? And who is it that less than a million is going to make the
difference? I am sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the next move.
And for my C's e-mail digest to come...

Nathan
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