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Why is everybody trying to drive out Carr?

  By Will Mcdonough, Globe Columnist, 03/29/97 

  Two years ago, if someone had said that at the end of the this NBA
  season, the Celtics would have two lottery picks and room under the
  salary cap to get another good player, all the pundits around here would
  have scoffed, "Never happen." 

  But now that it is happening, the man who made it happen, M.L. Carr,
  is being called an idiot, while others in the media are calling for Rick
  Pitino and Larry Bird to take over. Give me a break. Maybe we should
  pass the stupid pills around at breakfast this morning. 

  In one of the most masterful trades in recent memory, the Celtics sent
  Eric Montross to Dallas for the Mavericks' No. 1 pick. The Celtics had
  three centers at the time: Montross, Pervis Ellison, and Alton Lister.
  Lister is slightly younger than Red Auerbach. Ellison is made of papier
  mache and can't play 30 games a year. Therefore, Carr knowingly sent
  himself into battle this season without a center, which in the NBA means
  your team is going to get buried. 

  In order to get the alleged best player in the country coming out of
  college, you have to get buried, and the Celtics are dead last. 

  Carr the director of basketball operations sentenced Carr the coach to the
  cellar. How many guys in sports would do that? M.L. fell on his sword
  for the franchise because he knew it was the only way out. And now he
  has a daily double within his grasp if Dallas dies at the end. So unless
  they screw it up big time in the draft, the Celtics will be on the way back
  next year, and if Carr is crazy enough to want to coach again, he should
  get the shot. 

  No decision has been made on Carr's future. He'll meet with owner
  Paul Gaston and talk about the next step when the season is over. 

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