Re: Bird the fly in the ointment?

["Adam Litchy" <allitchy@cland.net>]

Is the Herald on-line?

Adam Litchy

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> From: Jan Crocker <jan@netgworld.com>
> To: celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: Bird the fly in the ointment?
> Date: Friday, May 02, 1997 12:06 PM
> 
> Back sports page of the Boston Herald reads: "Bird Stuffs C's" "Puts off
> Gaston offer for control." According to this article "Celtics owner Paul
> Gaston offered Larry Bird the head coaching job and the top basketball
> operations post roughly seven weeks ago, but cannot get an answer from
him,
> a team source told the Herald last night." Is Bird  using Boston to up
the
> anty in Indiana or is he using Indiana to up the anty in Boston.
Whatever,
> if this story is true he could screw up whatever is going on behind the
> scenes. The article points out he is  bogging down the selection process
> because Gaston is sitting pat waiting for Bird. The worst case senerio is
we
> lose Bird, Pitino, and Brown (who sure as hell can't be happy being put
on
> the back burner). What would we be left with Bob Hill? The horror. This
is
> really starting to drain me.
> 
> JC