Re: On Bird and Gaston, et al.

[damekmo@teleport.com]

>The players really seem to love ML, and I am concerned about the message they
>would get from seeing the only black coach/gm in the league, and a devoted
>company man at that, fired by a white millionaire so he can bring in two
>white "saviours" for the Boston team and its many bigoted fans.  That is one
>of my concerns with Pitino.   Plus, Does anyone really think Antoine Walker
>would be thrilled to have Pitino back in his face for an 82-game season, plus
>camp, preseason and hopefully the playoffs?  I'm still not convinced Pitino
>would make a good pro coach.  His tenure with the knicks was dubious, and who
>was the last college "genius" to make a top flight pro coach.  (dont say
>Larry Brown.)  Maybe the best thing would be to let ML stay as coach, and
>give Bird the reins as VP of bball ops.

Absolutely Josh! I couldn't agree more!

Paul M